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2024.7.16 Florian Hoefner Composer Spotlight

Florian Hoefner

Date

July 16, 2024

Event Type

Composer Spotlight

Chelsea McBride

Event Type Description

Composer Spotlights feature a Presenting Artist outlining compositional concepts contained within their own work by examining score & audio excerpts.

Description

Poetry As A Creative Springboard

About the Presenting Artists(s)

Florian Hoefner is a Juno-winning pianist and bandleader, composer, arranger and Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland. Hoefner’s trio record “First Spring” (2019) with Andrew Downing and Nick Fraser was nominated for a 2021 Juno for Jazz Album of the Year: Group. The trio's newest record, "Desert Bloom", was released in June of 2022. With his quartet, the Florian Hoefner Group, he has released 3 albums, the latest “Luminosity” (2016) featured tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake. As a composer, Hoefner’s work has been performed by ensembles including Subtone, Peter Kronreif Wayfarers, Iris Trio, Lucerne Jazz Orchestra, Till Brönner, and the Danjam Orchestra.

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