Guest Artist Jon Ballantyne to Perform at Spring Jazz Concert Wednesday, April 27 at ESU

Award-winning Canadian-born pianist and composer Jon Ballantyne will be featured at East Stroudsburg University’s Spring Jazz Concert Wednesday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Cecilia S. Cohen Recital Hall of the university’s Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.

The concert, sponsored by ESU’s theatre department, is open to the public at no cost.

Whether he is performing his original compositions, virtuosic two-handed spontaneous improvisations, or reworking jazz standards in his own innate, organic way, Ballantyne’s openness, originality, and inborn creativity always inform his music. He has released 10 albums and won two Juno Awards, which are the Canadian equivalent of the Grammy Award.

In the past two and a half decades, Ballantyne has performed critically acclaimed solo piano concerts and with his stellar quartet at venues and major music festivals across Canada, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Holland, France, Germany, and Israel.

Ballantyne has performed with contemporary masters, including Joe Henderson, Roy Haynes, and Dave Holland; and with jazz greats such as Dave Liebman, Seamus Blake, Phil Dwyer, and Ingred Jensen.

The concert also will feature the University Jazz Ensemble, performing works by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins and others. Matt Vashlishan, D.M.A., temporary theatre instructor at ESU, is director of the group.

For more information about the concert, please email esuarts@esu.edu or call the Fine Arts and Performing Arts Events Line at 570-422-3483.

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