Donal Fox

Donal Fox is internationally acclaimed as composer, pianist, and improviser in both jazz and classical music. His numerous awards include a Guggenheim fellowship in music composition, and a fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation, and he is a three time nominee for the CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts. He served as the first African- American composer-in-residence with the St. Louis Symphony and was a visiting artist at Harvard University, where he received a Certificate of Recognition from the President of Harvard College for his contribution to the arts.

Mr. Fox recently premiered his Monk and Bach Project at Jazz at Lincoln Center, his orchestra piece, “Hear De Lambs A-Cyrin,” commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra for The Spiritual Project, his Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project at Tanglewood, and the world premiere of his piano concerto Peace Out for Improvised Piano and Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with the American Composers Orchestra. He has been Composer-in-Residence at Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus (Germany), Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland), Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Liguria Study Center (Italy), Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, among others.

Donal Fox has performed and recorded with Oliver Lake, John Stubblefield, Billy Pierce, David Murray, Elliott Sharp, Regina Carter, George Mraz, Al Foster, Stefon Harris, Andrew Cyrille, Christian Scott, Terri Lyne Carrington, Gary Burton, Lewis Nash, John Patitucci, Dafnis Prieto, Maya Beiser and poet Quincy Troupe, among others. He has recorded as composer and pianist for New World Records, Evidence Records, Music & Arts, Passin’ Thru Records, Yamaha’s Original Artist Series, and Wergo Records. His works are published by Margun Music, G. Schirmer, and Leonellis Music. He is a recipient of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Music and a Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Scholar Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Fox gave the world premiere of his Piazzolla to Bach Projectto great success at the 2010 Tanglewood Jazz Festival with special guest Maya Beiser at Seji Ozawa Hall and, later in the concert season, the New York premiere of his Hear De Lambs A-Cryin’for orchestra and baritone with the ASO was broadcast live internationally from Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall. Fox was recently featured on the Emancipation 150 Series, presented by WQXR, part of The NEXT New York Conversation and is presently working on a special project with Hilary Hahn to be premiered at the Skaneateles Festival, August 2013.

Donal Fox is a Steinway Artist and is exclusively represented by Bernstein Artists, Inc. http://www.bernsarts.com/fox/fox-solo.html