The University of the South Performing Arts Series presents an evening of chamber music with Stewart Copeland, drummer and founding member of The Police, and internationally renowned pianist Jon Kimura Parker. Mr. Copeland and Mr. Parker will perform in Sewanee’s Guerry Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. CDT on Saturday, March 28.
Tickets are $25/adults, $20/seniors, and $10/students. Sewanee students, faculty and staff are free with a University ID card.
Review of the program and performers:
Stewart Copeland, rock star drummer turned acclaimed film composer and filmmaker, was ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as the fifth greatest drummer of all time. He will be joined by pianist Jon Kimura Parker, media personality and veteran of the international concert stage, to produce engaging and cutting-edge chamber music. The project features Copeland’s compositions as well as standard classical repertoire, including Parker’s brilliant suite based on Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
Together Copeland and Parker explore the role of improvisation in classical music. Instrumentation includes piano, violin, double-bass, and percussion, as well as the EVI (Electronic Valve Instrument).
Stewart Copeland has spent three decades in the forefront of contemporary music as a rock star, acclaimed film composer and filmmaker, and a much sought-after collaborator in the disparate worlds of opera, ballet, world music, and chamber music composition. His career includes the sale of more than 60 million records worldwide and numerous awards, including five Grammys.
A veteran of the international concert stage, Jon Kimura Parker has performed as guest soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, toured Europe with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and André Previn, and shared the stage with Jessye Norman at Berlin’s Philharmonie.