$25.00 MAXIMUM 10 PEOPLE
We require proof of one of the following: vaccination, anti-body test, or recent negative covid test (within 72 hours).
Audience members MUST wear a mask.
Three-time Emmy-nominated pianist/composer Steve Sandberg is a musical shapeshifter, remixing classical music, world music and jazz with the excitement of virtuosic improvisation. He leads the Steve Sandberg Quartet, whose concerts combine performances of Chopin, Ravel, Bartok, Debussy, and Liszt with improvisations on original compositions that are based on these pieces and also draw from Latin, African, Balkan, jazz and East Indian traditions.
One audience member describes the experience as listening to “music from a country I’ve never been to but always wanted to visit.” Sandberg also uses the concerts as an opportunity to educate and engage his audiences with accessible commentary that draws them into his musical world.
Sandberg grew up playing classical piano, then became part of NY’s vibrant Latin music scene. He has toured with and arranged for such diverse artists as Mario Rivera, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, Ruben Blades, Bebel Gilberto, and David Byrne. During the pandemic he has livestreamed regularly from Soapbox Gallery in collaboration with a diverse group of musicians including Vitor Goncalves, Rudy Royston, Boris Koslov, Kirk Driscoll, Michael O’Brien and others.
He is thrilled to play in duo with his long term friend and colleague, vibraphonist Jay Hoggard.
Vibraphonist and composer Jay Hoggard has touched the hearts and souls of listeners around Planet Earth for 40 years. Jay’s music is positive, spiritual, uplifting, and happy. He seamlessly blends jazz and gospel roots with African marimba rhythms. His performance repertoire represents the three B’s of the jazz tradition (Blues, Bop, Ballads) with original innovations.
Born in Washington, DC, Jay Hoggard was raised in Mt. Vernon, New York in a religious family.His father was a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion denomination. At age 15, Jay began playing the vibraphone. "One night I had a dream that I was playing the vibes. I asked my father to rent me a set and from the first moment, I knew that this was what I was supposed to do." Jay majored in the renown World Music program at Wesleyan University . He toured Europe and played at Carnegie Hall during his freshman year. In his junior year, he traveled to Tanzania to study East African marimba music. Jay graduated from Wesleyan in 1976 and returned to New York City in 1977 to be proclaimed a young lion of the vibraphone.
Jay Hoggard has recorded 22 CD’s as a leader and over 50 as a collaborator. He has recorded and toured with creative artists such as Kenny Burrell, Dr. Billy Taylor, Max Roach, James Newton, Hilton Ruiz, Oliver Lake, Bennie Maupin, Sam Rivers, Anthony Braxton, Jorge Dalto, Terumasa Hino, Dwight Andrews, Geri Allen, Anthony Davis, Henry Threadgill, Vishnu Wood, Chico Freeman, Muhal Richard Abrams , Sherry Winston, Ahmed Abdullah, and was a guest artist with the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band. He is a tenured Professor of Music at his alma mater, Wesleyan University. For over 25 years, he has been the director of the Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra and has taught and mentored thousands of students.