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Dan Tepfer at Jazz Kitchen October 1, 2008

APA Jazz Fellow Dan Tepfer to Perform at Jazz Kitchen

 

INDIANAPOLIS (September 22, 2008) – The 2007 American Pianists Association (APA) Cole Porter Fellow in Jazz, Dan Tepfer will return to Indianapolis for another award-winning performance. The Jazz Kitchen in Indianapolis welcomes the Dan Tepfer Trio for two shows at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 1.

 

Who: Dan Tepfer Trio

 

What: Jazz Kitchen Concert

 

When: 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., Wednesday Oct. 1

 

Where: Jazz Kitchen

5377 North College Avenue
  Indianapolis, Indiana 46220

 

Tickets: $12 admission

 

Raised in Paris, France in an American family, Tepfer started classical piano studies when he was six and soon began to explore improvisation on his own. In college, he majored in astrophysics before switching to jazz piano for his master's at the New England Conservatory in Boston. He lives in New York City and tours internationally with bassist Jorge Roeder and drummer Richie Barshay. Dan was named the APA Cole Porter Fellow in Jazz at the conclusion of the Jazz Fellowship Awards in April 2007. The fellowship is worth $75,000 in cash and career support for two years.

 

For more information about Tepfer, visit http://www.dantepfer.com/.

 

For more information about the APA Fellows, visit http://www.americanpianists.org/.

 

About American Pianists Association (APA)

The mission of the American Pianists Association is to discover, promote and advance world-class, American, classical and jazz pianists through competitions, performance tours and educational programs for the enrichment of audiences world-wide. APA executive offices have been in Indianapolis since 1982. More information is available online at http://www.americanpianists.org/ and http://www.indyjazzfest.net/.

 

The American Pianists Association receives support from the City of Indianapolis through the Arts Council of Indianapolis, the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, Christel DeHaan Family Foundation the Indiana General Assembly through the Indiana Arts Commission and the U.S. Congress through the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. 

 

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