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Jazz Bass Great Dave Holland Returns to NEC for Spring Residency

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Visiting Artist-in-residence Dave Holland will return to New England Conservatory for his spring residency, February 14--16, 2006. The jazz bassist will conduct two masterclasses with NEC jazz students and coach a performance of his works. His visit is sponsored by bassist and NEC Board of Visitors member Jimmy Earl '81. The masterclasses and performance are free and open to the public.

Biographical background
In July 1968, Miles Davis happened to listen in on a performance by jazz bassist Dave Holland Ronnie Scott's club in London. Impressed by what he saw, Davis asked Holland to move to New York and join his band. Holland spent the next two years touring with Davis, and also contributing to the classic Davis albums In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew. After his tenure with Davis, Holland left the group and, together with Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton, and Barry Altschul, formed the group Circle. Holland continued to work with many notables throughout the 1970s, including Thelonious Monk, Stan Getz, and Sam Rivers. In the 1980s, Holland was part of several jazz combos, including a quintet featuring Steve Coleman, and also took on full-time faculty duties at the Conservatory.

Today, Holland continues to tour with jazz legends such as Herbie Hancock and Pat Metheny, and also performs on such Grammy-nominated albums as Joe Henderson's So Near, So Far and Jack DeJohnette's Parallel Realities Question and Answer. His latest incarnation, The Dave Holland Quintet, recorded the album Points of View for ECM in 1998. Dave Holland was named an NEC Visiting Artist-in-Residence in 2005 and regularly visits the Conservatory each fall and spring semester.

The schedule of events follows:

Masterclasses: February 14 and 15, 1pm, St. Botolph Hall, 241 St. Botolph Street.

Concert: February 16, 8pm, Brown Hall, 30 Gainsborough St.

ABOUT NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY
Recognized nationally and internationally as a leader among music schools, New England Conservatory offers rigorous training in an intimate, nurturing community to 750 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral music students from around the world. Its faculty of 225 boasts internationally esteemed artist-teachers and scholars. Its alumni go on to fill orchestra chairs, concert hall stages, jazz clubs, recording studios, and arts management positions worldwide. Nearly half of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is composed of NEC trained musicians and faculty.

The oldest independent school of music in the United States, NEC was founded in 1867 by Eben Tourjee. Its curriculum is remarkable for its wide range of styles and traditions. On the college level, it features training in classical, jazz, Contemporary Improvisation, world and early music. Through its Preparatory School, School of Continuing Education, and Community Collaboration Programs, it provides training and performance opportunities for children, pre-college students, adults, and seniors. Through its outreach projects, it allows young musicians to engage with non-traditional audiences in schools, hospitals, and nursing homes--thereby bringing pleasure to new listeners and enlarging the universe for classical music and jazz.

NEC presents more than 600 free concerts each year, many of them in Jordan Hall, its world- renowned, 100-year old, beautifully restored concert hall. These programs range from solo recitals to chamber music to orchestral programs to jazz and opera scenes. Every year, NEC's opera studies department also presents two fully staged opera productions at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston.

NEC is co-founder and educational partner of “From the Top," a weekly radio program that celebrates outstanding young classical musicians from the entire country. With its broadcast home in Jordan Hall, the show is now carried by National Public Radio and is heard on 250 stations throughout the United States.

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