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Lunch Hour Series Opens with LaRe, Montalbano
Award-Winning Jazz Singer Accompanied by Pianist Montalbano
Written By Colleen Bierstine '15, PR Intern
LaRe returns "home" to Utica for special performance
Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu
Utica, NY (09/02/2014) - Award-winning jazz musician, singer and Utica native LaRe Dapice will be accompanied by pianist Rick Montalbano to kick off Utica College’s Fall 2014 Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series.LaRe has garnered 10 awards from Billboard Magazine and five from ASCAP Plus. She has opened for artists like Benny Powell and performed at Barry Harris’ 80th birthday party. In the past, she studied and worked with talents such as Reggie Workman, Charles Tolliver, Barry Harris, Chico Hamilton, Amy London, Sheila Jordon and Mark Murphy.
LaRe once headlined a month-long performance, six nights a week at the Zenith Sky Lounge at the Marriott Hotel’s 56th Floor Penthouse in Japan. She has even performed locally at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute’s annual Art & Music Festival and opened the Spring Jazz Series at the Utica Public Library.
LaRe has also shared the stage with prominent jazz artists such as Rufus Reid, James Weidman, Henry Grimes, Akua Dixon, Paul Lieberman, Aaron Graves and Bertha. She belongs to the jazz vocal group led by saxophonist Billy Harper, and she is a member of International Women in Jazz and Chamber Music of America.
Montalbano is a pianist, organist, composer, arranger and educator. Currently, he plays solo piano at the Savoy in Rome and performs with bands at The Showroom at the Turning Stone Casino. Montalbano operates the Music Factory recording studio and teaches jazz piano at Colgate University, Hamilton College and Syracuse University. He is the assistant director of the Central New York Jazz Orchestra.
The concert will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 3. in UC’s Library Concourse located on the lower level of the Frank E. Gannett Memorial Library. Doors open at 12 p.m., and the concert will begin at 12:30 p.m. Seating is limited.
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About Utica College – Utica College, founded in 1946, is a comprehensive private institution offering bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. The College, located in upstate central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls over 4,000 students in 36 undergraduate majors, 27 minors, 21 graduate, pre-professional and special programs.
