On Saturday, February 18th, from 6pm-8pm, the Dr, Margaret Wade-Lewis Center and Unison Arts jointly present a concert of jazz standards by pianist Darius Beckford and singer-songwriter Jennifer Poroye.
Suggested donation at the door: $10 for adults, $5 for kids.
Darius Beckford is a jazz pianist and composer from New York. He’s currently a senior with a major in Jazz and a minor in film, and he teaches at the New Windsor Music Academy. He plays all over the Hudson Valley area with various different jazz, neo soul, funk, and rock bands. Along with this, composes his own music that combines jazz with various electronic styles like, nu jazz, futurebass, and chiptune. He started playing classical piano when he was 6 where he instantly fell in love with the instrument as well as anything and everything related to music. When he switched from classical to jazz, his major influences were and still are Hiromi, Chick Corea, and Herbie Hancock. After graduating, he will continue performing and composing, while exploring some independent ethnomusicological studies for his compositions.
Jennifer Poroye (pronounced 'Puh-row-yay') is a third-year undergraduate student at SUNY New Paltz studying Music and Creative Writing. With a concentration in Recording & Electronic Music in the School of Fine & Performing Arts; she composes, arranges, produces, and performs her own music as a part of her coursework and her own personal creative journey
