The Bay City State Theatre Presents Pianist Kevin Cole

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December 13, 2007       Leave a Comment
By: Mike Bacigalupo - State Theatre

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The Bay City State Theatre Presents Kevin Cole: A Cole Christmas, Sponsored by Catholic Federal Credit Union. Show dates are Friday, December 21, and Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 7:30 PM.

America's pianist and Steinway Artist Kevin Cole has delighted audiences with a repertoire that includes the best of 20th Century American Music.

Kevin Cole's performances, especially his interpretation of Gershwin, have prompted accolades from some of the foremost critics in America. "When Cole sits down at the piano, you would swear Gershwin himself was at work...Cole stands as the best Gershwin pianist in America today," wrote Howard Reich, arts critic for the Chicago Tribune.

Engagements for Mr. Cole include:

Sold-out performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl

San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Philharmonic Orchestra (London)

Boston Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony

BBC Concert Orchestra (Covent Garden Festival); Cincinnati Pops (Erich Kunzel conducting)

Interlochen Center for the Arts (Michigan) and the Ravinia Festival (Chicago, IL)

Cole has been a featured soloist at the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival and the Chicago Humanities Festival.

Cole has shared the concert stage with notables from opera greats William Warfield and Sylvia McNair to Broadway legend Barbara Cook. His solo debut at Chicago's Orchestra Hall was a concert of his own compositions. A step in a new direction featured Cole as a singer/pianist in Gershwin's LADY, BE GOOD! at the Teatro Nacional Sao Carlos, Lisbon, Portugal.

Honoring the 100th anniversary of songwriter Harold Arlen's birth he performed a sold-out solo concert of Arlen for the Chicago Humanities Festival. In March 2005 Kevin gave the first professional performance, with the Albany Symphony(NY), of the Concerto in Three Rhythms, by Dana Suesse (The Girl Gershwin) since its debut in 1932.

Kevin Cole is an award winning musical director, arranger, composer, vocalist and archivist who has garnered the praises of Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, E.Y.Harburg, Hugh Martin, Burton Lane, Stephen Sondheim and members of the Jerome Kern and Gershwin families.

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State Theatre of Bay City is located at 913 Washington Ave., Bay City, MI 48708.

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