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Pat Metheny - The Orchestrion Tour
April 11, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Location: Phillips Center
Genre: Jazz and Blues
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Prices: $44.50, Pit, Orchestra Rows A-P and Mezzanine; $34, Orchestra Rows Q-Z; $28.50, Balcony. (Prices include tax. Pit seating is limited and subject to availability.)
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Did you know…
For this tour, Pat moves from brilliant solo guitar improvisations to the unveiling of a totally new technology for the presentation of acoustically driven “solo ensemble” music he is dubbing Orchestrionics.
Pat Metheny has won 17 Grammy Awards spread out over a variety of different categories including Best Rock Instrumental, Best Contemporary Jazz Recording, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo and Best Instrumental Composition.
Pat Metheny was born in Kansas City in 1954 into a musical family. Starting on trumpet at the age of 8, he switched to guitar at age 12. By the age of 15, he was working regularly with the best jazz musicians in Kansas City, receiving valuable experience at an unusually young age.
At the age of 18, Pat Metheny was the youngest teacher ever at the University of Miami. At 19, he became the youngest teacher ever at the Berklee College of Music, where he also received an honorary doctorate more than 20 years later.
He has also taught music workshops all over the world, from the Dutch Royal Conservatory to the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz to clinics in Asia and South America.
The Pat Metheny Group won an unprecedented seven consecutive Grammies for seven consecutive albums.
In 2009 Pat Metheny won the Reader’s Poll for the Best Jazz Guitarist.
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