Biography Bill Averbach

jazz trumpeter, composer, vocalist

Current Projects:

Austin Klezmorim

Bam-Jazz

Official Web Site: www.bamusic.net

Bill Averbach is a seasoned musician with over 30 years of professional music experience. He has performed worldwide and recorded with many well known artists not just in the jazz genre, but world-beat, classical, folk, country, rock, and blues genres as well as with several Austin songwriters and has taken an active role in the development of emerging new artists. His experience with audiences extends beyond just performance.

Originally hailing from Philadelphia and a graduate of Bard College, Bill had extensive exposure to the jazz greats of the Progressive Jazz Era. He was fortunate to have the opportunity of studying, interacting, and performing with Roswell Rudd, Karl Berger, Paul Motian, Lonnie Hillyer, Carla Bley, Charles Mingus, Jimmy Giuffre, Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Dave Holland, Martin Banks, and many East Coast jazz players. In addition, as a composition major his formal training included work with world-class composers and performers Benjamin Boretz, Luis Garcia-Renard, Eli Yarden, and Grammy Award winner Joan Tower.

Bill has performed numerous concerts and conducted lectures and workshops throughout the Southwest and Florida on Klezmer. Many of his compositions have been performed, recorded, and aired throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. He is currently working on a project that received a Regional Artist Grant from the North Carolina Arts & Sciences Council recording his original music as well as traditional Jazz and Blues and is expected to be completed by mid-Spring.

Downloadable music files of Bill Avercah's music:

www.bamusic.net/sounds

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