Date:
Sunday, June 28
Time:
7:00 PM
Advance Ticket:
$46.62
Advance Member Ticket:
$42.00
Door Ticket:
$47.25
Student Ticket:
$23.50
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Kuumbwa Jazz Presents

Billy Childs Quartet

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6:00 PM
All Ages
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Billy Childs has emerged as one of the foremost American composers of his era, successfully marrying the musical products of his heritage with the Western neoclassical traditions of the twentieth century in a powerful symbiosis of style, range, and dynamism. 

Thus far in his career, Childs has garnered seventeen GRAMMY nominations and six GRAMMY awards including two for Best Instrumental Jazz Album (Winds of Change in 2024 and Rebirth in 2018), and two for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist. Born in Los Angeles, he entered USC as a composition major, graduating four years later with a bachelor of music in composition under the tutelage of Robert Linn. Since then, Childs has received a number of orchestral and chamber commissions.

Childs’ solo jazz recording career includes four critically acclaimed albums on the Windham Hill Jazz label and two volumes of Chamber Jazz music (Lyric, Vol. 1, 2006, and Autumn: In Moving Pictures, Vol. 2, 2010). Childs expanded upon his talent for seamlessly straddling the lines between jazz and classical worlds with a collection of re-imagined Laura Nyro compositions for Sony Masterworks, released in September 2014. In 2017, Childs released the first of his three Mack Avenue recordings, the GRAMMY award-winning Rebirth, which was followed by 2020’s Acceptance and 2023’s GRAMMY award-winning The Winds of Change.

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