Shelly Berg Trio at the Jazz Club of Sarasota, featuring pianist Shelly Berg, bassist Mark Neuenschander and drummer Ian Goodman.
José Feliciano, Arturo Sandoval, Lucy Woodward, Kate Reid, Fantine, Shelly Berg, and Frost School’s Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra open the 12th season of the JAZZ ROOTS series at the Adrienne Arsht Center with a distinct international accent as the pop music and jazz of the British Invasion gets a twist of Latin flair. Actor Malcolm McDowell hosts.
Join pianist Shelly Berg and vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway on New Year’s Eve as they perform an exciting evening of Gershwin favorites including Rhapsody in Blue and American in Paris with the Fort Worth Symphony, conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya.
Save the date: Shelly Berg with special guest artist TBA during the Boca Grande All That Jazz 2020 season.
Boca Grande, Florida
Shelly Berg Trio appears with special guest artist Veronica Swift, presented by Gold Coast Jazz Society.
Pianists Shelly Berg and Martin Bejerano present a Baroque Jazz Club duo piano concert, hosted by Martha / Mary Concerts in Miami’s historic La Merced Chapel.
Two concerts:
Saturday, January 11 • 7:30 pm (Salon Series)
Sunday, January 12 • 3 pm
Pianists Shelly Berg and Martin Bejerano present a Baroque Jazz Club duo piano concert, hosted by Martha / Mary Concerts in Miami’s historic La Merced Chapel.
Two concerts:
Saturday, January 11 • 7:30 pm (Salon Series)
Sunday, January 12 • 3 pm
Join the Frost Sextet and the Frost Concert Jazz Band as they revisit music from Miles Davis’ audacious Bitches Brew, released in 1970, reimagined in new arrangements by saxophonist Charles Pillow. As part of his residency at Frost, NEA Jazz Master saxophonist Dave Liebman, a Miles Davis sideman, performs with both Frost groups. Also featuring directors Chuck Bergeron and John Daversa, and pianists Shelly Berg and Martin Bejerano.
For nearly 20 years, The Jazz Cruise has presented the very best in straight ahead jazz. With over 200 hours of music, 100 jazz musicians and a legion of loyal guests from all over the world, The Jazz Cruise is now one of the most important jazz events of the year. Shelly Berg, music director.
The Gulf Coast Symphony in Ft. Meyers, Florida, celebrates its 25th anniversary season with Gershwin Reimagined featuring piano soloist Shelly Berg and the Shelly Berg Trio, bringing his Grammy artistry to a program of Gershwin classics including Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, and more.
Andrew M. Kurtz, music director
For information and tickets: (239) 481-4849
No, you’ve never heard the bassoon sound quite like this before. Frost faculty artist and bassoonist Gabriel Beavers and Frost dean and pianist Shelly Berg call on their superior technique and varied experiences for Gernot Wolfgang’s and James Lassen’s challenging works, in which the bassoon is treated like a rock guitar. Brett Dietz’s Behold a Pale Horse for amplified bassoon and percussion quartet puts the bassoon through a guitar pedal effects; and Theodor Burkali’s TRaInspOrt is a fiery piece for bassoon and 2 percussion. Also featuring percussionists Andrew Riley and Matthew Nichols, and Hamiruge (LSU Percussion Ensemble).
In honor of Black History Month, Frost voice faculty artists Jeanette Thompson and Robynne Redmon join Frost pianists Shelly Berg and Alan Johnson in a voice recital, which will include honoring the history and evolution of the Spiritual. A product of the introduction of Christianity into slaves’ lives, Spirituals also became a coded means of communicating resistance and escape. In time, Spirituals became a formative piece in the development of jazz and blues and has remained a source of inspiration to many jazz artists today.
Pianist Shelly Berg accompanies renowned classical flutists Sir James Galway and Lady Jeanne Galway in an adventurous program of beloved flute repertoire at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center in Cutler Bay, Florida. For more information, please contact the box office: (786) 573-5300
Pianist Shelly Berg accompanies renowned classical flutists Sir James Galway and Lady Jeanne Galway in an adventurous program of beloved flute repertoire at the Ruby Diamond Concert Hall in Tallahassee, Florida. For more information, please contact the box office: (850) 644-7670
In her concert debut as assistant professor of performance, chamber music and entrepreneurship at the Frost School of Music, Grammy-nominated flutist-composer Valerie Coleman is showcased in an evening of poetry by Margaret Danner, Maya Angelou, and Langston Hughes, visual art by Sonya Clark, and her own original chamber music. Featured performers include Valerie Coleman, mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran, pianist-composer Amanda Harberg, clarinetist Margaret Donaghue, percussionist Svet Stoyanov, and pianist Shelly Berg.
Pre-Concert Discussion: Musicology Professor Dr. Melvin Butler leads a 30-minute pre-concert discussion at 6:30pm.
Shelly Berg Trio with vocalists Niki Haris and Billy Valentine at the JAS Cafe in Aspen, Colorado.
Two shows per night, 7 pm and 9:15 pm, tickets at https://www.axs.com/jascafe
Shelly Berg appears with Seal at the Arts for All Gala, hosted at the Hall Winery in Napa Valley, in collaboration with Festival Napa Valley. At this event, Seal reignites some of the most iconic jazz and swing classics ever written, performing songs from his Grammy Award-nominated album, Standards, which pays tribute to legendary artists like Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, accompanied by the Festival’s Blackburn Music Academy Orchestra.
Shelly Berg appears with The Jazz Cruise Allstars at Sunset Jazz Newport.
Newport Beach, California
Amuse Bouche—Frost School of Music Live from the Berkshires: Shelly Berg appears with flutist Valerie Coleman and clarinetist Margaret Donaghue in Lenox, Massachusetts. Free admission.
Shelly Berg appears with the Bria Skonberg Quartet during the Community Arts Program’s Summer Concert Series in Coral Gables, Florida.
Tickets on sale soon at https://communityartsprogram.org/summer-concert-series/
Shelly Berg Trio and Veronica Swift at the Faena Theater Summer Jazz Series.
Miami Beach, Florida
Celebrated jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Ken Peplowski returns with a illustrious quartet - Gary Hobbs, drums; Dave Captain, bass; and Shelly Berg, piano - for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s 4th Annual Evening of Jazz live benefit concert and dinner at 5:30 pm on Sunday, March 24th at Warehouse 23 on the Vancouver waterfront which will be transformed into the “Moulin Rouge.”
Tickets are $100, which include two complimentary tickets to the VSO April 13/14 Young Artists Concert. Concert Steinway piano generously provided by Michelle’s Pianos. Proceeds from this event benefit The VSO’s Education Initiative, focusing on extensive music education outreach programs that serve to empower students, educators and adults in the community.
This joyous celebration of Thomas Duboi Hormel’s wide range of styles inspired by jazz and classical music will showcase the talents of the Henry Mancini Institute’s Big Band and Orchestra, as well as Shelly Berg, Dean of Frost School of Music. Thomas’ orchestral suite, “New York Variations” was recorded at the 20th Century Fox Studios with the Hollywood Studio Orchestra, and his moving ballet, “The Legend of Bird Mountain” was recorded by the Prague Symphony Orchestra.
FREE/Ticket Required
Shelly Berg conducts the 2019 Jazz Band of America at the Music for All National Festival presented by Yamaha March 14-16, 2019 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Jazz Band of America is comprised of high school musicians, selected by recorded audition and is presented in cooperation with The Jazz Education Network (JEN).
For more information contact musicforall.org
Husband-and-wife team Emilio and Gloria Estefan are the next recipients of the The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and a star-studded live taping for PBS will honor them in style. During the event, the Estefans will be presented the Gershwin Prize by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, and a delegation of Members of Congress. The honorees represent two historic firsts for the prize – the first time it has been awarded to a married couple or to musicians-songwriters of Hispanic descent.
For tickets, contact PBS Insider Experience
Shelly Berg appears at the Sarasota Jazz Festival with the Frost Studio Jazz Band and a fantastic line up of jazz singers and vocalists. Main Stage. Ken Peplowski, music director.
For tickets and more information go to sarasotajazzfestival.org
Shelly Berg appears on the main stage concert at the Sarasota Jazz Festival with Ken Peplowski, Houston Person, Mary Stallings, and other jazz greats. Followed by a 9:30 p.m. meet-and-greet with the artists.
For tickets and more information go to sarasotajazzfestival.org
Shelly Berg appears as piano soloist at the Festival of the Arts BOCA in a thrilling evening of orchestral favorites including Gershwin’s immortal Rhapsody in Blue. Constantine Kitsopoulos, conductor/music director.
For tickets and more information please visit festivalboca.org
JAS Cafe presents vocalists Veronica Swift and Billy Valentine with pianist Shelly Berg, bassist Chuck Bergeron, drummer Gary Novak at the Cooking School of Aspen. Doors open at 9:00 p.m., Show starts at 9:15 p.m.
Buy tickets at Jazz Aspen Snowmass
JAS Cafe presents vocalists Veronica Swift and Billy Valentine with pianist Shelly Berg, bassist Chuck Bergeron, drummer Gary Novak at the Cooking School of Aspen. Doors open at 5:45 p.m., Show starts at 7 p.m. (see also 9 p.m.)
Buy tickets at Jazz Aspen Snowmass
JAS Cafe presents vocalists Veronica Swift and Billy Valentine with pianist Shelly Berg, bassist Chuck Bergeron, drummer Gary Novak at the Cooking School of Aspen. Doors open at 6:45 p.m., Listen Up! at 7:15 p.m., Show starts at 8 p.m.
Buy tickets at Jazz Aspen Snowmass
Shelly Berg appears at the Newport Beach Jazz Party with musical luminaries Jack Jones, Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Tom Scott, Houston Person, Scott Hamilton, Tierney Sutton, Wycliffe Gordon, Terrell Stafford, Bill Cunliffe, Larry Fuller, Akiko Tsurga, Tamir Hendelman, Christian Jacob, Harry Allen, Holly Hoffmann, Emmet Cohen Trio, Chris Colangelo, Graham Dechter, Jo Labarbera, Butch Miles, Anne Patterson Big Band, Katie Thiroux… the list goes on and on!
For tickets and information visit newportbeachjazzparty.com
Join Shelly Berg, music director of The Jazz Cruise, for a very special week of jazz at sea!
January 19-26, 2019, departing from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Since 2001, The Jazz Cruise has presented the very best straight-ahead jazz in the world in a setting like no other. 2019 will set the bar even higher, with nearly 100 jazz musicians on the ship, combining exciting new talent with longtime favorites. Join us for almost 225 hours of incredible music, presented festival-style over 7 jam-packed days, and discover—or rediscover—why The Jazz Cruise is rightly known as “The Greatest Jazz Festival at Sea.”
https://www.thejazzcruise.com/
Shelly Berg returns to the Palladium’s Side Door Cabaret—Tampa Bay’s critically-acclaimed listening room—for an evening of great jazz. Backing Berg are Palladium faves from La Lucha, Mark Feinman on drums and Alejandro Arenas on bass.
Visit mypalladium.org to reserve tickets.
Paquito D’Rivera, clarinetist, has won 14 Grammy Awards and has over 30 solo recordings to his credit. He is a recipient of the National Medal of the Arts, the Living Jazz Legend Award and was designated as an NEA Jazz Master. The Shelly Berg Trio is comprised of Shelly Berg on piano, Chuck Bergeron on bass and John Yarling on drums.
Tickets at Gold Coast Jazz, contact (954) 524-0805
Featuring Grammy Award winner Patti Austin, Las Vegas favorite Clint Holmes, Grammy nominee Monica Mancini , New York-based blues vocalist Brianna Thomas, and Wé McDonald from The Voice, this star-studded show hails the life and legacy of Ella Fitzgerald. Each vocalist embodies a different era of the jazz legend intertwined with stories from her debut as a teenager at New York’s Apollo Theater to the peak of her fame. Also featuring Shelly Berg on piano. Produced in collaboration with the Apollo Theater and Grammy-winning producer Gregg Field, presented at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.
For information and tickets visit Kravis.org
Join Dean Shelly Berg as the Frost School of Music celebrates its annual holiday candlelight dinner with carols and seasonal favorites performed by over 200 stellar choir and instrumental students. Proceeds benefit music scholarships and the Shalala MusicReach Mentoring Program. For tickets and information, visit winterwonderful.com.
Shelly Berg, dean of the Frost School of Music, University of Miami interviews rising jazz stars on Generation Next which airs at 9 a.m. and repeats again at midnight the first Saturday of every month on Real Jazz Sirius XM. See Sirius XM for schedule in your time zone.
The 2018-2019 JAZZ ROOTS season at the Adrienne Arsht Center kicks off with a special tribute concert to the world-renowned composer, conductor and pianist Leonard Bernstein in Leonard Bernstein 100 and Beyond featuring Ann Hampton Callaway, Jon Secada, Kirk Whalum, Shelly Berg and the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra, Scott Flavin, conductor.
For tickets, call 305.949.6722 or visit arshtcenter.org.
Shelly Berg, dean of the Frost School of Music, University of Miami interviews rising jazz stars on Generation Next which airs at 9 a.m. and repeats again at midnight the first Saturday of every month on Real Jazz Sirius XM. See Sirius XM for schedule in your time zone.
A Musical Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Michael S. Gordon, directed by Shelly Berg.
Shelly Berg, dean of the Frost School of Music, University of Miami interviews rising jazz stars on Generation Next which airs at 9 a.m. and repeats again at midnight the first Saturday of every month on Real Jazz Sirius XM. See Sirius XM for schedule in your time zone.
Gershwin Reimagined: An American in London, a new album by Shelly Berg with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on the Decca Gold label, will be released September 7.
Shelly Berg, piano
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
José Serebrier conductor
Gregg Field, producer
Also featuring:
Arturo Sandoval, Ledisi, Monica Mancini
Shelly Berg Trio with Gregg Field and Chuck Berghofer
CD release tour dates to be announced soon.
Shelton Berg, Santiago Rodriguez and Oleksii Ivanchenko, piano
For her final recital at the Frost School of Music, flutist and associate professor Trudy Kane performs works close to her heart. Enjoy Kane’s interpretation of Philippe Gaubert’s Sonata No. 3, Valerie Coleman’s Requiem Milonga, Kane’s published transcription of Gabriel Fauré’s Violin Sonata, and more.