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Mark and Maggie O'Connor
Mark and Maggie OConnor - American Classics identifies the cornerstones of repertoire, style and wonderful diversity of A New American School of String Playing. Mining a huge body of repertoire that has made its impact on American music, the selected tunes and arrangements by Mr. O'Connor represent stylistic importance, pedagogical value and have timeless appeal. The program offers a broad and interconnecting collection of American music through violin/fiddle solos and duos, with additional music by Mr. O'Connor on guitar. Audiences will find themselves inspired by the songbook of America as they have never heard it before.
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Mark O'Connor Bio
Mark O'Connor began his creative journey at the feet of American fiddling legend Benny Thomasson, and the iconic French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli. Now, at age 56, he has melded these influences into a new American classical music, and is perpetuating his vision of A New American School of String Playing. Mr. OConnor has won three Grammys, seven CMA awards as well as several national fiddle, guitar and mandolin champion titles. As an A Team Nashville session player and creator/director of the award-winning television show The American Music Shop, Mr. OConnor appeared on 500 albums helping to create the modern bluegrass, new traditionalist and Americana music genres.
After recording a series of highly influential albums for Rounder Records as a child musician, Mr. OConnor became the youngest artist to sign with the Warner Bros. record label as artist-producer. His multiple Grammy-winning New Nashville Cats and his multiple Grammy-nominated Heroes are now classics from his Nashville years. Moving to the Sony Classical label, Mr. OConnors releases with Yo-Yo Ma including Appalachia Waltz and the Grammy-winning Appalachian Journey sold a million CDs and gained O'Connor worldwide recognition as a leading proponent of a new American Classical musical idiom. Mr. OConnors Fiddle Concerto has become the most-performed violin concerto composed in the last 50 years. On his own OMAC Records label, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra recorded his sweeping Americana Symphony while his groundbreaking 9th concerto, The Improvised Violin Concerto was recorded in Boston Symphony Hall to praise across the music industry.
His new touring group, the Mark OConnor Band consisting of family members (wife, son and daughter-in-law) debuted at #1 on Billboard Magazines bluegrass album chart and their first album Coming Home won a Grammy in 2017. Mr. OConnor released his 47th feature album in 2017, Mark OConnor Band Live! Summer of 2018 will see the group open for the Zac Brown Band Down The Rabbit Hole tour, and release a new single with Zac Brown as special guest called In My Blood.
Mr. OConnor has authored a series of educational books called the OConnor Method and is now the fastest growing violin method in the country and tens of thousands can credit the OConnor books for learning how to play stringed instruments. The OConnor Method features American music styles, creativity, cultural diversity and western classical technical training. Mr. OConnor will direct the first OConnor Method String Camp in Charlotte, North Carolina summer of 2018, and resides in Charlotte with his wife and fellow bandmate Maggie OConnor. For more information, please see www.markoconnor.com, www.markoconnorband.com, www.oconnormethod.com, www.oconnormethodstringcamp.com
Maggie O'Connor Bio
Violinist and American fiddler Maggie O'Connor performs as a member of the Grammy Award winning Mark O'Connor Band, as well as in a duo with her husband, violinist and composer Mark OConnor. With a unique background in both traditional classical violin training and American musical styles, Maggie continues her mission to show that violinists can and should participate in everything the instrument has to offer. Through the Mark OConnor Band, Maggie has performed at the 59th Grammy Awards Ceremony in 2017 where the group also won for Best Bluegrass Album of the Year.
Maggie continued her professional training at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University where she studied with violinist Herbert Greenberg earning Bachelors and Masters degrees in violin performance. She was also a finalist in the Marbury Prize Competition for Undergraduate Violinists while finishing up her Bachelor's degree with distinction and had the honor of being accepted into the Five Year Advanced Degree Program along with being awarded the Career Development Grant while at Peabody. She was the recipient of full tuition scholarships while studying at the Aspen Music Festival and School for three years. Maggie currently resides in North Carolina with her husband and plays a beautifully handcrafted 1996 violin made by Lukas Wronski.
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AdresseTryon Depot (Afficher)
22 Depot St
Tryon, NC 28782
United States
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