The Bösendorfer ‘Imperial’: World-Renowned Piano to be Featured at
‘Remembering Jazz at the Brooklyn Paramount’ Concert,
Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, Friday, October 15, 2004

Brooklyn, N.Y. – Long Island University Brooklyn Campus’s one-of-a-kind “Remembering Jazz at the Brooklyn Paramount” conference and concert will feature an absolutely unique musical instrument – the Bösendorfer “Imperial” piano.

“Remembering Jazz at the Brooklyn Paramount” takes place Friday, October 15, with the jazz conference from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the concert from 7:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., at the Brooklyn Campus at Flatbush and DeKalb Avenues.

The unique daylong conference and evening concert celebrate Brooklyn’s golden age of jazz – in the same hall where many legendary jazz artists once performed. The Brooklyn Paramount Theater building now houses part of LIU’s Brooklyn Campus.

Bösendorfer pianos are hand-crafted in Austria, the city where the young piano-maker Ignaz Bösendorfer established his piano factory in 1828. The director of the 176-year-old company’s New York showroom, Gerhard Feldmann, notes, “These instruments are built with one of the most methodical and painstaking production processes in the industry – allowing for the creation of unsurpassed sound.”

Today, the exceptional musicality of these pianos has popularized them in the New York arts community, where Bösendorfer is the official piano of the Blue Note Jazz Club in Greenwich Village, Birdland in the Theater District, and up the Museum Mile at Goethe Institute and the Neue Galerie. It has been heard with artists such as Tori Amos, Lionel Richie, Diane Reeves, Oscar Peterson and Sting.

At the October 15 Brooklyn Campus concert, a Bösendorfer model that is nine-and-a-half feet in length will be played by artists including D.D. Jackson, Bruce Barth and Isaac Ben Ayala.

The Remembering Jazz at the Brooklyn Paramount conference is free and open to the public. Concert tickets are $20 general admission, $15 for seniors, conference participants and Campus members and $10 for students. They can be purchased by calling (718) 488-1406 or at the box office.

For more information, visit www.brooklyn.liu.edu/rememberingjazz or call (718) 780-4587 or (718) 488-1015 (media).

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