Frank Carlberg with the Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra (Two Shows)

Timings:

1st show: doors 7:30 pm, music 8:00 pm – 1 set of music
2nd show: doors 9:30 pm, music 10:00 pm – 1 set of music

Line-up:

- Olivia Murphy - conductor
- Frank Carlberg - piano
- Zach Sewell, Tristan Sutton, Kobie Dozier, Louis Allan-Sinclair, Milo Delcroix-Jones - reeds
- Tom Gaddes, Finn Hori-Öhrström, Diggory Keyse, Lara Hopper - trumpets
- Dylan Rennie-Carter, Misha Fox, Osk Busiri-Vici, Charlie Mellon - trombones
- Rufus Draper - steelpan
- Aleks Dimitrova - double bass
- Miranda Radford - drums
- Miila Dietz, Kora Williams - vocals

About:

The Trinity Laban Jazz Orchestra conducted by Olivia Murphy returns to the Vortex in a new project with Frank Carlberg on piano.

Frank Carlberg is a NYC-resident composer, arranger, pianist and educator whose work ranges from small ensembles to big bands, duos to symphony orchestras. Carlberg has performed and recorded with Steve Lacy, Bob Brookmeyer, Roswell Rudd and Kenny Wheeler, and studied with Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, Ran Blake and Geri Allen. Since 1999 he is part of the jazz faculty of New England Conservatory, Boston. Carlberg has taught composer Nicholas Urie, pianists Vardan Ovsepian, Leo Genovese, Carmen Staaf, Julian Shore and Isaac Wilson, saxophonists Noah Preminger and Brian Landrus, bassists Kim Cass and Simon Willson and trumpeter David Adewumi. Carlberg also directs the NEC Jazz Composers’ Workshop Ensemble, allowing student composers to hear their works for large jazz orchestra realized in live performance.

After moving to New York in 1992, Carlberg became part of the city’s jazz and creative music scene. He became a founding member of Brooklyn’s Douglass Street Music Collective and organized the borough’s Gowanus Jazz Fest from 2010 to 2014. His work has received support from Chamber Music America’s New Works Commission Grant and French-American Collaboration Grant, as well as fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo and the Millay Arts Residency. As leader of the Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble, Carlberg performs originals as well as arrangements and re-compositions of standards and folk materials, as heard on the 2024 release Elegy For Thelonious and its 2019 predecessor Monk Dreams, Hallucinations and Nightmares.

With Tivoli Trio, joined by bassist John Hébert and drummer Gerald Cleaver, Carlberg plays original music drawn from cinematic and circus inspirations.