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Press Release
Diana Herold Quartet
June 2010
LITTLE ROCK - Diana Herold Quartet
Monday Jazz Project at the AfterThought Presents on Monday, June 28 2010 - DIANA HEROLD QUARTET with Diana Herold, vibraphone, Grisha Alexiev, drums, Gary Topper, saxophone and Joe Vick, bass. Cover $8. The performance is at the AfterThought, 2721 Kavanaugh, Little Rock - (501) 663-1196.
DIANA HEROLD - vibraphonist, marimbist, percussionist
Diana Herold received her two graduate degrees from the New England Conservatory and Rice University respectively.
Equally adept at performing both improvised and non-improvised music, Herold has worked with composers and musicians such as Yo Yo Ma, Lou Harrison (with the Mark Morris Dance Group), Anthony Davis and Buddy DeFranco. She has performed as a featured soloist and as a percussionist with several larger new music groups and orchestras, including the Discovery Orchestra, the BMI Orchestra, Muhal Richard Abrams, Butch Morris, and the Brooklyn Philharmonic.
Her performances have taken her throughout Europe, Central America, the United States, and Canada (where she attended the Banff Centre for the Arts).
She can be heard on recordings with They Might Be Giants, Tony Trischka, Sam Rivers, Fred Ho, Rob Henke, and Chuck Clark. Diana leads her own jazz group featuring her own compositions.
GRISHA ALEXIEV - drums
Grisha Alexiev has been playing drums and writing music for 28 years. His performance experience with such varied artists as Archie Bell, Ken Werner, Sinfonia of Auckland (New Zealand), Sam Rivers, Randy Weston, Marty Ehrlich, Julius Hemphill, John Cage, Arnett Cobb, Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton, and Richard Stoltzman, has given him a unique and impressive style. As a composer, Alexiev has been commissioned by dance companies and is recorded on The Jazz Club and Mapleshade Labels.
In 1990, while a student at New England Conservatory of Music, Alexiev was honored with the Presser Award, a grant given annually to the most promising student at each of the conservatories in the United States. In 1994, he was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Performance Grant, and he has received several Meet the Composer Grants since 1996.
He is co-founder (with Neal Kirkwood) of the Discovery Orchestra, (with Sam Bardfeld) The Atomic Strings, and leads his own 11-piece group, No Western Shirts.
Gary Topper - Saxophonist
Topper is a woodwind player, composer, arranger and educator whose career began in Memphis playing jazz and producing commercial music. He recorded with Al Green, Jimmy Buffet, Keith Richards, Toots Hibbert and the Memphis Horns.
Gary relocated to New York City in 1989 where he performed with jazz greats such as Jerome Richardson, Bob Cranshaw, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Wayne Andre, Chip Jackson, Bill Mays, Lew Soloff, David Matthews and Candido. Other live performance credits include Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Michel Legrand, Michael Bolton, Nancy Wilson, Lena Horne as well as several Broadway shows. He played in the big bands of Mike Longo, Ed Palermo, Bill Mobley, Lew Anderson and performed on recordings for Patti LaBelle, Gary Lemel, and the Grammy winning "Tony Bennett Sings Ellington: Hot and Cool."
Gary conducted three concerts at Carnegie Hall for the Kiskeya Orchestra and has composed, arranged and performed on feature film soundtracks, national commercials, and audio programs for art museums. He has written extensively for jazz ensembles, symphony orchestra and recently completed a clarinet concerto.
Gary received his M.A. from the University of Memphis, with additional studies at Eastman and the Berklee School of Music. He has received awards from ASCAP, NARAS, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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All Monday Jazz shows start at 8 p.m. and are at The AfterThought, 2721 Kavanaugh, Little Rock, AR 72205 - (501) 663-1196.
Monday Jazz Project at the AfterThought is sponsored by the ARKANSAS JAZZ HERITAGE FOUNDATION, the AfterThought and Capitol Keyboard. Call Cece Rich at (501) 228-9999 for more information or visit our website: arjazz.org.
For more information contact Capitol Keyboard, 13401 Chenal Parkway Little Rock, AR, Phone (501) 228-9999, or James Thomson at 225-2891.
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