STEFAN BAUER and WENDY RUSSELL --Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Stefan Bauer started playing piano at age six and at fourteen, the trombone; studied trombone at masters level from 1975 to 1978 at the Hochschule fur Musik in Dortmund, Germany. In 1976 he turned to the vibraphone, and studied with Wolfgang Schluter, David Friedman, Tom van der Geld and David Samuels. Since 1978 Bauer has toured extensively, performing at international festivals around the world from Abidjan to Zurich.
Bauer is internationally regarded as an excellent instrumentalist, and as a dynamic and flexible improvisor who competently moves within a wide spectrum between mainstream and avantgarde. His credentials as a composer include more than 40 pieces documented on CD's. He has led his own groups on annual German tours since 1981.
Bauer has either performed live or recorded with the following musicians: Christof Lauer, the Vienna Art Orchestra (LP CONCERTO PICCOLO), Reinhard Gloder, Janusz Stefanski, Helge Schneider, Uli Beckerhoff (LP DEDICATION), Palais Schaumburg (LP LUPA), Doug Hammond Trio, Vinnie Golia, Jochen Sturms Ballstars (LP TANGO SUBVERSIVO), Drümmele Maa (LP VILLA RHODODENDRON), Kolner Saxophon Mafia (LP BABOMA), Charlie Mariano, Don Thompson, Bernie Senensky, Jim Vivian, Barry Romberg, Kenny Wheeler, Christoph Haberer (CD PULSATION), Attila Zoller, Tim Hagans, Larry Coryell, Larry Roy/Marilyn Lerner feat. Peter Erskine (CD A QUARTER TO THREE), Walle Larsson (CD), Knut Haugsoen (CD's ONE DAY'S GROWTH, STEP AND A HALF) Norma Winstone, Klaus Konig, Mick Goodrick, Alex Dean, Jerry Fuller, Adam Nussbaum, Manfred Brundl, Daniel Koulack (CD LIFE ON A STRING) and many others.
For more information visit Stefan Bauer's website
Photo by: K. Rade
Wendy Russell grew up in NYC and, having been raised by theatrical parents, her life has always been filled with music. As a teenager she wrote songs and performed at coffee houses and bars in the NYC area. One of her songs was performed on the television show "One Life to Live". After taking several years off to raise her family, Wendy returned to performing in 2001 at which time she performed, co-wrote and produced "Survive It: A Reality Cabaret" with Margaret Curry and Ave Lindon. The show, with direction from Johnny King and musical direction from David Epstein, was performed to sold out audiences at Danny's Skylight Cabaret Room and later at Don't Tell Mama. In 2005, she made her solo cabaret debut with "I Wanna Be Yours" at Danny's Skylight Cabaret Room with Timo Elliston on piano/co-aranger and Bob Bowen on bass. In 2005 she also won the Andy Anselmo award, presented at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Allen Room. There she shared the stage with Liz Hampton Calloway, Jerome Hardemann-Harmon, Barbara Fasano, Margaret Curry and Thos Shipley. Wendy performed again with Jerome Hardemann-Harmon, as well as Leslie Uggums, at the Hudson Guild Theater in 2006. She went on to perform at Birdland, Don't Tell Mama, and the Hudson Guild Theater, among other locations.
Currently, in addition to continuing to perform, Wendy Russell is also a voice teacher and has been working at the Singer's Forum since 2001. Teaching classes and private lessons, she also works with children aged 8 - 18 in the Singer's Forum Scholarship program in NYC and in Princeton, NJ. In 2007 Westminster Conservatory took over the Princeton division keeping her on as a teacher and renaming the program to "the Philip A Campanella Princeton Vocal Scholarship for Youth".
For more information visit Wendy Russell's website
Photo: Wendy Russell