Dawn Clement

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Dawn Clement (* 1978 in La Mesca ) is an American jazz pianist and singer.

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Clement grew up in Oregon and Texas before moving to Vancouver with her family in 1992 . She first sang in church and began taking classical piano lessons at the age of eleven. It wasn't until high school that she came into contact with jazz. She lived in Seattle from 1996 and earned a bachelor's degree from the Cornish College of the Arts , then a master's degree in composition from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She also had lessons from Jerome Gray, Dave Peck, George Cables , Fred Hersch , Sofia Rosoff, Diane Moser and Benny Green .

In 2003 she presented her debut album Hush (Conduit Records); In 2006 she was a finalist at the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Piano Competition . In the 2000s she also worked with Julian Priester ( In Deep End Dance 2003), Pharoah Sanders , Edmonia Jarrett , Nancy King , Ingrid Jensen , Louis Moutin , Hadley Caliman , Buddy Catlett , John Clayton , Chuck Deardorf , Mercer Ellington , Jane Ira Bloom ( Mental Weather 2008 and Wingwalker 2010), Bobby Previte and Herbie Hancock . She has been teaching at the Cornish College of the Arts since 2000.

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  1. ↑ Entry (RateYourMusic)
  2. ↑ Dawn Clement's impressive range on display at the Earshot Jazz Festival Seattle Times , October 3, 2017
  3. ↑ http://www.creativemusicadventures.com/node/94
  4. ↑ http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=12553#.Uv5BlPvIwZk
  5. ↑ http://www.cornish.edu/music/faculty/dawn_clement/
  6. ↑ Meeting (AllAboutJazz)
personal data
SURNAME Clement, Dawn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH La Mesca