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Sumi Tonooka at The New Leaf Club

Courtesy of Bruce Klauber | Posted on November 4, 2015

Where

The New Leaf Club
1225 Montrose Ave
Rosemont, PA
Map
(610) 525-1711

When

Thu, December 17, 2015
7:30 pm

At Door

$5, 10

Musicians

About


Sumi Tonooka has been called a “fierce and fascinating composer and pianist” (Jazz Times), “provocative and compelling” (New York Times), and “continually inventive, original, surprising, and a total delight,” (Cuadranos de Jazz, Madrid). During a career spanning more than 30 years that has taken her from bases in Philadelphia and Boston, to New York and Seattle, Tonooka has been developing a body of work that surprises and delights audiences, while quietly piling up accolades from jazz writers and fellow musicians. In 2013, the American Composers Orchestra and The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, in cooperation with EarShot, the National Orchestra Composition Discover Network, presented Tonooka's first work for symphony Orchestra as part of the second Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute (JCOI) Readings. ...

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