Jazz Room Presents: Lucy Yeghiazaryan Quintet performs the music of Shirley Horn

Jazz Room Presents: Lucy Yeghiazaryan Quintet

Friday, June 16-17, 2023

Stage Door Theater
155 North College Street
Charlotte, NC 28202

Tickets: $20 plus 

New York-based Armenian-American jazz vocalist Lucy Yeghiazaryan and her quintet reimagine the music of legendary jazz singer and pianist, Shirley Horn.

Shirley Horn was one of the leading jazz musicians of her generation. With her distinctive voice and pace, Horn had a long and storied career, earning nine Grammy Awards nominations, and winning for Best Jazz Vocal Performance in 1999. She was also awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award in 2005.

Lucy Yeghiazaryan is a recipient of grants from the Doris Duke Foundation, Chamber Music America, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has shared the stage with Harold Mabern, Houston Person, Grant Stewart, Terrell Stafford, Bernadette Peters, and Arto Tuncboyaijian, performing regularly at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Birdland, Mezzrow, and Symphony Space.

Showtimes:

Friday, June 16 at 6:00 p.m.
Friday, June 16 at 8:15 p.m.
Saturday, June 17 at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 17 at 9:15 p.m.

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