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An Evening with Troels Oxenvad and Friends.
Music by Troels Oxenvad will be performed by Troels and guest artists. There will be music in a variety of styles played on a variety of acoustic and electric instruments.

Running time: TBA with one intermission
Recommended for all ages

Troels Oxenvad has a passion for combining existing styles into new ones, often making his music defy classification.On stage he is equally comfortable playing rhythm and lead, drawing from decades of experience performing on guitar, bass and keyboards and composing and arranging for bands and TV in a variety of styles. As Troels is constantly composing new music, part or all of the material played during the evening will be composed specifically for it.

Troels' band arrangements usually leave plenty of room for improvisations, giving all performers a chance to "speak their mind" and fully contribute to the atmosphere of the evening.

Troels will be joined by current collaborators as well as a few new friends.

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The Artists

Troels Oxenvad, a native Dane, has played professionally on various instruments in a variety of styles since age 18. He has headed several bands playing his original music and also worked as a sideman on guitar, bass and keyboards in dozens of groups over the years. Formal training includes private studies on piano, upright bass and guitar and a stay at Musicians Institute in Los Angeles . Troels has composed and produced music for many TV documentaries, some of which have aired around the globe. A Whidbey Island resident since 2006, Troels has performed locally with Zi Jal, in duo with Josephina Hunner and Elizabeth Lovelace (in Rendezvous) and as a soloist.

Robert Marsanyi (Keyboards) has been playing piano since he was a kid. With his son, Ian, he's been making music with WICA for several years, as the Conductor/Keyboards in The Rocky Horror Show, as the piano-playing club owner in Cabaret, performing Ian's incidental music for Katie Woodzick’ s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and last year as music director for Deana Duncan's Sweeney Todd. After working as a composer and performer of experimental music in San Francisco 's Bay Area, Robert has rediscovered the pleasures of performance with and for many of the Island 's singers, musicians, poets and actors.

James Hinkley (Cello) began his studies at the Cranbrook Theatre School at the Cranbrook Institute in Michigan . Soon after, he switched his focus to music and went on to earn degrees in music performance and composition. He was one of the founding members of Daedalus, a music group dedicated to the work of living composers, and has had his own works performed in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, London and Berlin, as well as supplying the scores for six episodes of MTV's "Liquid Television". He has performed with the Baton Rouge , Toledo , and Akron symphonies, and served as principal cello for the Lima Symphony, Ohio Ballet, and the Ohio Light Opera. He currently lives on Whidbey Island , and is still active as a composer and performer in both the classical and jazz idioms.

Juan Van Dunk (Bass)

Elizabeth Lovelace (Violin) has taught Suzuki violin and traditional folk fiddle to adults and children since 1990. She performed for three years with Orchestra Seattle directed by George Shangrow and trained and taught at the Suzuki Institute of Seattle for six years. In 1994 she traveled to Matsumoto, Japan to take teacher training from Dr. Suzuki. She loves the traditional folk fiddle and has played in numerous dance bands over the past fifteen years.

Scott Small (Drums)

The Crew

Stage Manager
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Sound Board Operator
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Light Board Operator
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