Colin Stranahan

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Colin Stranahan (* around 1986 in Denver ) is an American jazz musician ( drums , composition ) of modern jazz .

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Colin Stranahan is the son of a jazz music educator. He started playing the piano at the age of three and switched to drums at the age of eight. As a child prodigy, he was already playing in the local music scene in his hometown at the age of eleven; In 2003, at the age of 17, he recorded his first album for Capri Records ( Dreams Untold ). After receiving a scholarship, the Presidential Scholar Award of the National YoungArts Foundation in 2005, he studied in California at the Brubeck Institute , soon to move to New York's The New School . From 2007 he studied at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz . His third album, Life Condition , was created in 2010 after a tour of India . Stranahan was one of the winners of the Thelonious Monk Drum Competition in 2012 . After graduating, he lived in New York, where he worked with musicians such as Kurt Rosenwinkel , Jonathan Kreisberg , Fred Hersch , Terence Blanchard , Dave Kikoski , Kevin Hays , Michael Janisch , Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter . He also forms a trio with Rick Rosato (double bass) and Glenn Zaleski (piano), with whom he has so far recorded two albums.

Stranahan has taught at the Nordjysk Conservatory of Music in Aarhus, at the Royal Academy of Music in London and in summer camps at the Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony, The Fara Sabina Summer Jazz School and the Festival in Fara Sabina (Italy). He has also taught master classes at Oberlin College , New England Conservatory , the International Jazz Conference in Thailand and the Singapore Esplanade Jazz Festival. In the field of jazz he was involved in 27 recording sessions between 2003 and 2018, including a. also with Lucas Pino , John Raymond and Theo Kapilidis , most recently with Rafal Sarnecki ( Climbing Trees , 2018).

Discographic notes

  • Colin Stranahan / Glenn Zaleski / Rick Rosato: Anticipation (Capri, 2011)
  • Colin Stranahan / Glenn Zaleski / Rick Rosato: Limitless (Capri, 2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Colin Stranahan. Smalls, December 7, 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Madeleine Albright to be Honored by Monk Institute at This Year's Competition and Gala
  3. ↑ a b discussion of the Life Condition
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 7, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Stranahan, Colin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Denver