Music at the Center

2008 Events to be Announced

Past Concerts and Music Events

Sunday, January 28, 2007

The Lighthouse Center for the Arts and ComericA Wealth and Institutional Management were pleased to present Grammy-winning tenor saxophonist Carlos Averhoff and Friends.

Averhoff was born in Cuba and graduated in 1969 from Havana's Conservatrio Amadeo Roldan with a major in saxophone. While with the influential Cuban-based Irakere (1973-1994), he was the recipient of the 1979 Grammy for Best Latin Recording. In addition to his twenty plus albums with Irakere, Mr. Averhoff has recorded two under his own name.  He has performed in jazz festivals around the world and was awarded the prestigious Orden de la Culture Nacional, one of Cuba's highest civilian honors.  He has shared the stage with such jazz luminaries as Stan Getz, Tito Puente, Joe Henderson, Chick Corea, George Benson, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny G., Betty Carter and others.  A respected teacher for over 25 years, he has also participated in many workshops and clinics throughout the world.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Eddie Higgins & Company, a jazz pianist, started his professional career in Chicago. For twenty years, he worked at some of Chicago's best known jazz clubs including the Brass Rail, Preview Lounge, Blue Note, Cloister Inn and Jazz Ltd.  His longest and most memorable job was at the London House, playing opposite the biggest jazz stars of the 50's and 60's, including Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Errol Garner, George Shearing, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans and many others.  

....Higgins' style is relaxed and swinging, with an easy delicacy about it that reminds one of Hank Jones or Bill Evans." Herb Nolan, Down Beat

....Brilliant, fully developed piano sets....plays piano with a master's touch....a dazzling dynamic range." Sam Lesner, Chicago Daily News

"...Hearing this piano for the first time, you would say 'good taste and a sensitive touch.' Like Hank Jones and the late Nat 'King' Cole, he's an orderly player whether romping with the blues or delineating a tender waltz." Owen Cordle, Raleigh News and Observer 

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Canadian pianist Anne Louise-Turgeon appears on the Albany Records label performing solo piano music of Ezra Laderman. Upcoming recording projects include works for two pianos by Johannes Brahms; two piano masterpieces by Spanish composers as well as works for two pianos; and one piano four-hands by Max Reger.  As a soloist, Louise-Turgeon has taken prizes in the Cleveland and Sydney International Piano Competitions, as well as a Government of Canada Award for Achievement in the Arts and an Ontario Arts Council Chalmers Award for advanced solo studies.

She holds a Master of Music, Master of Musical Arts and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in piano performance from Yale University School of Music, where she received the school’s highest honor - the Dean’s Award for top graduate - and the Charles F. Miller Award for best recital.

This concert was sponsored by the Jupiter Academy of Music.

Thursday, April 5, 2007

An author, scholar, versatile musician, singer and all-around socko  entertainer, Tex Wyndham is a recognized authority on ragtime and early jazz.  He performs as a ragtime soloist, band pianist and as cornetist and leader of  The Rent Party Revellers, The Red Lion Jazz Band, and The MTB (Margery  Thompson Birthday) Jazz Band. A prolific author, Mr. Wyndham has written several books on Dixieland music. He''s been writing columns and ragtime and classic jazz reviews for numerous  publications over the last 35 years, including The American Rag, The  Mississippi Rag and the Rag Times. From 1966 to 1997, he had more published  reviews of ragtime, Dixieland jazz and related music recordings than any  other U.S.-based writer. He also has more than 30 recordings of ragtime and  jazz music on the market. Mr. Wyndham has been headlining national ragtime and jazz festivals for many  years, as well as playing jazz clubs and cruises.