CLASSICal JAZZ... Between 2 Worlds
CLASSICal JAZZ... between 2 worlds
compels it’s audience through a fascinating, multi-media immersive musical journey between Classical and Jazz music, delighting attendees of all ages and backgrounds. Available for programming in 2020, Collective Media Concert’s first offering features the works of 20th century composers- including Debussy, Ravel, revealing their surprising, undeniable and previously unexplored influence on the American Jazz greats including Bill Evans, Duke Ellington and others.
Premiering previously unseen concert footage and interview clips, the American Jazz legends are allowed to detail in their own words, the inspiration they uncovered in the scores of the masters, paired with symphonic performances by the orchestra. Narrated by the conductor the concert program is lightly scripted, flexible and includes the licensed material featured on screen, in a multi-media performance synchronized with “live” orchestra.
Furthering the mission of musical diversity in the concert hall, an optional space is reserved for living American composers--whose works explore improvisation in an orchestral setting to feature brilliant up-and-coming Jazz and Classical soloists.
Emmanuel Fratianni - Conductor
“CLASSICal JAZZ…Between 2 Worlds”concert programs are led by Collective Media Concerts creative director, Emmanuel Fratianni, who has delighted and engaged sold-out audiences of American and International orchestras since 2009.
He is embraced by musicians and audiences alike, as a prodigious conductor of classical, multimedia, film and pops/crossover symphonic programs, having led over 80 orchestras worldwide to date including the San Francisco Symphony, Baltimore, Dallas, and Houston symphonies, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to name a few. His prodigious credits, press and reviews can be found at www.EmmanuelFratianni.com.
As a symphonic arranger and composer he has been recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and released by EMI Classics.
Collective Media Concerts
Collective Media Concerts, based in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Geneva, creates multi-media orchestral performances for private and public institutions. Our team of video, audio and lighting directors are 30 year veterans of the major concert halls in the US and abroad.
Notable large-scale programing includes the installation of a 80-piece orchestra through restricted airspace, including Taiko drum corps, children’s choir and visiting international soloists, to premier a specially commissioned symphonic suite for theinaugural gala of the New Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles Airport. In homage of the region’s rich environmental, technological and cultural invention, the event was co-sponsored by Westfield Corporation, LAWA (Los Angeles World Airports) and The City of Los Angeles Office of Tourism.
Laurie Robinson - Executive Producer & CEO
About Laurie Robinson
Billboard Top-Ten composer and vocalist, Laurie Robinson, holds the unique distinction of being one of the few living American female classical composers to perform as a soloist, her own creations with the major orchestras of the world.
Debuting with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood bowl in 2006, with an award-winning video game symphonic score, her composing and singing career has taken her around the globe, with her works being performed by the world’s finest orchestras in the great concert halls, including the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, Pittsburg Symphony, London Philharmonia, London Philharmonic at Royal Albert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra to name a few.
Laurie’s debut on the Billboard Top-Ten in 2008 with EMI Classics Video Games Live, Vol.1 soundtrack album cemented her status in the classical/crossover orchestral world. A 2011 recording of her work by the London Philharmonic at Abbey Road, resulted in a second appearance at the top 10. Her numerous awards and credits as a composer and collaborator include “Soundtrack of the Year” by Play Magazine for the score to Advent Rising, a GANG Award and numerous GANG and NAViGaTR Nominations, and arranging for a platinum UK album for a teen pop sensation.
