Mid-Day Music @ Columbia featuring ANDRES ROVIRA, jazz piano

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 - 12:00pm to Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 12:55pm
Faculty House; Garden Room 2; 64 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027     map

COME JOIN US IN THE GARDEN ROOM AT FACULTY HOUSE, WHERE STUDENTS AND MUSIC ASSOCIATES FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S MUSIC PERFORMANCE PROGRAM WILL BE SHOWCASED IN A NOONTIME RECITAL SERIES!

 

Jazz pianist Andres Rovira will be performing at Faculty House on Wednesday April 6, 2016 at noon.  Program TBA.

 


 

 

Biographies

 

Andrés Rovira is a sophomore in Columbia College from Atlanta, Georgia. He began keyboard lessons at age 5, and discovered jazz at age 7, after listening to the Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson records his father put on in their home. In High School, he started playing regularly around Atlanta, and participated in Georgia State University’s Rialto Youth Jazz Orchestra. He was selected as Georgia’s All-State Jazz Band pianist for three years, and went on to win several state and national awards for jazz performance. After studying with Atlanta natives Phil Sims and Kevin Bales, Andrés is now a student of Bruce Barth at Columbia, while he pursues a degree in Economics-Mathematics.

Jack Aylor is a freshman in Columbia College from Nashville, TN. He began playing bass during his sophomore year of high school and now studies privately with Ugonna Okegwo. He plans on majoring in English. 

Daniel Mesko is a first - year in Columbia College studying Economics and Jazz Studies. Daniel began playing the drums when he was six years old and has continued to play regularly since. His first encounters with jazz were in high school, where he played the drums for the school’s big band and jazz combo. In his senior year, he played with the Florida All-State jazz band, one of only two high school drummers in the state to do so. He currently plays in two MPP ensembles: a jazz ensemble and an Afro-Cuban/Latin ensemble. He plans to continue in the Music Performance Program through his time Columbia.

 


 

 

This event is sponsored by Columbia University's Music Performance Program and is free and open to the public. 

 

MID-DAY MUSIC @ COLUMBIA RECITAL SERIES