Li Xiao Chuan Duet
China
8:00 pm-9:00 pm,02,Oct 2011
Artists
Trumpet： Li Xiao Chuan
Guitar：Teriver Cheung
Li Xiaochuan is a jazz trumpeter and composer, who has become one of China’s premier jazz musicians since his emergence in 2001. However, his talent in jazz and creative musical expression, soon made him one of the most sought-after jazz musicians in China. After playing his first jazz concert in 2004, he began to work with the Shanghai Jazz Orchestra and played at Shanghai Jazz Festival 2006 and 2007.Also during this time he lead the group “E-Groove”, a Shanghai-based jazz band that performed original music, fusion, and jazz standards. For this project he collaborated with outstanding musicians and singers such as Coco Zhao, Nils Landgren, Wang Hao, Erica Lee, Jasmine Chen, Chih- Peng Chen, Tian Guoan Etc.
In 2007, he left Shanghai and headed for Texas to pursue his Master degree in University of North Tex- as. There he received the Richard Dalrymple Memorial Jazz Trumpet Scholarship and was the first Asian musician receives this scholarship. He has studied with Mike Steinel, Ingird Jensen, Fred Hamilton, Rodney Booth, Jay Saunders, and Joe Magnarelli etc. As an active working jazz musician, he has played with a number of great musicians such as Stefan Karlsson, ED Soph, Dan Haerle, Lars Jans- son, Bernard Wright, Tito Puente JR, Dana Hawkins, Brad Leadi and Shelley Carroll Big Band, UNT 2 o’clock Lab Band, The Zebras, Bon Jovi (as opening band) and many more. He has also been fortunate enough to perform in such venues as Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center Dallas, Murchison Performing Center, Stan Kenton Hall, and Syndicate jazz lounge, Frisco Jazz Fest, Denton Art & Jazz Fest, Deep Ellum Jazz Fest, live show in Dallas radio station KNON 89.3, and jazz clubs in New York City.