The Weis Center will welcome jazz pianist Christian Sands and his Trio on Tuesday, December 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Weis Center Concert Hall.
There will be a free pre-performance talk from 6:45-7:15 p.m. in the Atrium facilitated by Music Professor Sezi Seskir.
The performance is sponsored, in part, by Martha Barrick and Coldwell Banker Penn One Real Estate.
Pianist Christian Sands brings Christmas Stories to the Weis Center, sharing music from his deeply personal and joyfully inventive holiday album. Blending beloved carols with original compositions, Sands reflects on the spirit of the season through soulful swing, gospel warmth, and playful energy. From the hush of Silent Night to the sparkle of The Gift, this heartfelt performance captures the many moods of the holidays, from nostalgia and reflection to celebration and joy.
Christian Sands, a Steinway Artist and five-time Grammy nominee, is an emerging jazz force. His abundant piano technique perfectly matches his conception, accomplishing a much deeper musical goal: a fresh look at the entire language of jazz. Whether it’s stride, swing, bebop, progressive, fusion, Brazilian or Afro-Cuban, Sands develops the past while providing unusual and stimulating vehicles for the present and the future. He expresses himself through an extensive vocabulary of patterns, textures and structures, all the while maintaining a strong sense of understatement, sensitivity, taste and swing.
Jazz history is filled with stirring torch songs and ballads — brilliant expressions of suffering after love has gone awry. The jazz record shelf even contains some classic album-long explorations of melancholy. But it’s hard to find precedent in pianist Sands’ Embracing Dawn, his fifth full-length effort for Mack Avenue Records. The album Dawn trails 2023’s acclaimed Christmas Stories and 2020’s Grammy-nominated Be Water.
Since arriving on the scene, Sands has shared the stage with such jazz luminaries as Wynton Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Shelia E, Wycliffe Gordon, Yo-Yo Ma, and many others.
TICKETS
Tickets are $35 for adults, $28 for seniors 62+ and subscribers, $25 for youth 18 and under, $25 for Bucknell employees and retirees (limit 2), free for Bucknell students (limit 1) and $25 for non-Bucknell students (limit 2).
Tickets can be reserved by calling 570-577-1000 or online at Bucknell.edu/BoxOffice.
Tickets are also available in person from several locations including the Weis Center lobby (weekdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and the CAP Center Box Office, located on the ground floor of the Elaine Langone Center (weekdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.).
For more information about this event, contact Lisa Leighton, marketing and outreach director, at 570-577-3727 or by e-mail at lisa.leighton@bucknell.edu.
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