Classical Interludes: Carnegie Hall Citywide: Riley Mulherkar and Chris Pattishall
Hear two extraordinary next-generation jazz artists in this free Carnegie Hall Citywide performance. Acclaimed trumpeter Riley Mulherkar—a founding member of brass quartet The Westerlies and a regular collaborator with such luminaries as Wynton Marsalis, Anna Deavere Smith, and Alan Cumming—joins forces with Chris Pattishall, one of New York’s most in-demand pianists and an artist praised for his “musical depth and tonal beauty” (Chicago Tribune).
Riley Mulherkar has been recognized as a “smart young trumpet player” by The New York Times and is a 2020 recipient of Lincoln Center’s Emerging Artist Award for his work as “an original bandleader, composer, arranger, educator, community activist and advocate for jazz and the arts.” Riley works with a number of leading artists of our time, including Wynton Marsalis, Anna Deavere Smith, and Alan Cumming, and is a founding member of The Westerlies, a new music brass quartet that creates the rarest of hybrids: music that is both “folk-like and composerly, lovely and intellectually rigorous” (NPR Music). Riley also serves as Artistic Director for Jazz at Joye in Aiken, bringing leading young talent to the historic city of Aiken, South Carolina. Riley is a faculty member of The College of Performing Arts at The New School, and is an Edwards Artist and performs on Edwards trumpets.
Chris has established himself as "an expert at using the jazz tradition as a jumping off-point for experimentation" (JazzTimes) and his debut album Zodiac was called "a startling achievement" (NY Times) and “a hell of a debut album” (Stereogum). He is a featured performer on a number of film scores (including the Oscar-nominated score to Everything Everywhere All At Once, Nightmare Alley, and Knives Out) and he co-composed the score to Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. He has collaborated with artists across multiple disciplines including Michela Marino-Lerman, Simeon Marsalis, Najja Moon, Kambui Olujimi, and Samora Pinderhughes.
Photo credit: Zenith Richards
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