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JAZZ @ THE SANDBAR: Victor Atkins

Wed, Apr 12

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The Sandbar @ The Cove at UNO

Award-winning pianist, composer and educator Victor Atkins is this week's special guest clinician and student combo bandleader...

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JAZZ @ THE SANDBAR: Victor Atkins
JAZZ @ THE SANDBAR: Victor Atkins

Time & Location

Apr 12, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT – Apr 13, 2023, 9:30 PM CDT

The Sandbar @ The Cove at UNO, 2000 Lakeshore Dr, New Orleans, LA 70122, USA

About The Event

Jazz pianist, composer and arranger, Victor Atkins, is a professor of music at the UNO School of the Arts where he serves as graduate coordinator for the Department of Music and instructor of jazz theory, composition, arranging, class piano, ensemble, and applied keyboard. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music where he studied with Donald Brown, James Williams, and Mulgrew Miller and earned a B.M. before attending Manhattan School of Music, where he earned an M.M and studied with Kenny Barron and David Berger. 

Atkins won a Grammy with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO) in 2009 for Book One (World Village, 2009). For the past 15 years, he has been the pianist and principal staff arranger for the orchestra. His arrangements can be heard on Dee Dee Bridgewater’s "Dee Dee’s Feathers" (Sony/Okeh 2014) which features NOJO and on two NOJO CD’s: "The Songs of Allen Toussaint" (Storyville…

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