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The Seventy-second Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

3,001st Concert

Verheyen/Copland Duo

May 25, 2014

Sunday, 4:00 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
This afternoon’s concert continues a collaboration among the National

Gallery ofArt, the Delegation ofthe European Union to the United

States, and numerous other concert presenters in the Washington, DC

area, who are celebrating May as the “European Month ofCulture.” In

this, the fifth ofsix such concerts at the Gallery, Belgian saxophonist

Robin Verheyen represents his home country. The final Gallery concert

in the festival will occur on Wednesday, May 28, at 12:10 pm, as the

National Gallery ofArt Chamber Players perform music by composers

from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Malta, and Slovenia.

The musicians will announce their programfrom the stage

The Musicians

VERHEYEN/COPLAND DUO

Having performed together previously as part of an international jazz quartet,

Belgian saxophonist Robin Verheyen and American pianist Marc Copland

reunite on this occasion to play original compositions and standards from

the American Songbook. The duo joins Belgians everywhere in celebrating

the 200th birthday ofAdolphe Sax and the Belgian roots ofthe instrument

he invented.

ROBIN VERHEYEN

After a number ofyears as a leader and sideman ofjazz ensembles in

Amsterdam, Belgium, and Paris, Robin Verheyen moved to New York City

in 2006, where he has continued his successful career as a jazz musician.

In 2008 he released his first album as a leader, Painting Space, followed by

Starbound the following year. In 2012 he released his first recording with

his New York-based quartet “Trinity,” working with Ralph Alessi, Thomas

Morgan, and Jeff Davis.

Verheyen also coleads the jazz ensemble Narcissus, with which he produced

two albums, Narcissus and Narcissus no. 2, and records with Finnish pianist

Aki Rissanen and drummer Markku Ounaskari. In May 2009 Jazzmagazine

declared him one ofthe top twelve European saxophone players, along with

Christoph Lauer, Trygve Seim, and Pietro Tonolo.

MARC COPLAND

Acclaimed as a solo jazz pianist as well as a partner in duos, trios, quartets,

and quintets, Marc Copland has made more than twenty recordings since

2000, including Time Within Time, which features his music as well as his

poetry. In 2004 he began working exclusively with Pirouet records, making

the acclaimed New York Trio Series ofrecordings, which solidified his

position as an innovator on his instrument. Volume ill ofthe series, Night

Whispers, was listed by Down Beat as one ofthe best CDs ofthe decade and

hailed by the magazine’s reviewer as “the strongest top to bottom and most

poetic album I’ve heard in a while.” Recent recordings include a solo CD,

Alone; a duet CD with longtime partner Gary Peacock; a reunion with Victor

Lewis, Greg Osby, and Doug Weiss in quartet with Crosstalk; and Five on One,

a recording with the all-star quintet Contact.

Copland’s career as a leader began in the 1980s and blossomed the following decade, when he made three legendary recordings on the Savoy label 

and toured in quartets and quintets with John Abercrombie, Randy Brecker,

Bob Berg, Dennis Chambers, Drew Gress, and Billy Hart.

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