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Chris Peña at The Nash
Courtesy of John Willis | Posted on March 3, 2014
When
Fri, March 14, 2014
7:30 pm
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Chris Peña - piano, Ben Hedquist - bass, Micah Hummel - drums
Pianist Chris Peña, originally from Tucson, was the recipient of the Provost Scholarship and an ASU JazzBird Scholarship. In 2010, Peña was a winner of DownBeat Magazine’s prestigious 33rd Annual Student Music Awards. Peña won for his collaborative arrangement of Bebel Gilberto’s “Um Segundo.”
Peña’s love of melody and lyricism was instilled in him as he grew up listening to baroque, classical and romantic music. But when he happened to attend a program sponsored by the Tucson Jazz Institute, his life was changed forever....