Piedmont Piano Company is pleased to present
Erik Deutsch & Scott Amendola Duo
CANCELLED
Unfortunately, this concert has been cancelled due to the current coronavirus situation. They hope to reschedule in the near future.
Scott Amendola is an American drummer in Berkeley, CA. Amendola was originally from New Jersey and studied at Berkelee School of Music in Boston. After relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area he came to popularity in the 1990s as a member of the grammy-nominated T.J. Kirk with Charlie Hunter and Will Bernard. He has led his own bands and trios which have included Nels Cline, Jeff Parker, Wil Blades, Jenny Scheinman, and Ben Goldberg. He has toured with Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, John Zorn, Phil Lesh, Mike Patton, Regina Carter, and Laurie Anderson and recorded with Pat Martino, Jim Campilongo, and Nels Cline. In 2011 Amendola had his new orchestral work performed in conjunction with the Oakland East Bay Symphony as one the symphony's New Visions/New Vistas premieres.
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Pianist, keyboardist, composer, bandleader, and genre-bending sideman Erik Deutsch is currently residing in Mexico City (after 15 years in Brooklyn). He has toured and recorded with pop artists like Norah Jones, Rosanne Cash, Citizen Cope, Shooter Jennings, Alice Smith, Phillip Phillips, Shelby Lynne, Teddy Thompson, and Devotchka; or with jazz and jam artists like Charlie Hunter, Theo Bleckmann, , Joe Russo, Ben Allison, Scott Amendola, Steven Bernstein, Nels Cline, Allison Miller, and jamband pioneers Leftover Salmon. 2020 marks a new chapter for Erik as the full time pianist for country pop legends Dixie Chicks.
A prolific composer and bandleader as well, Erik's six albums have received critical acclaim by RollingStone, Jazz Times, USA Today, and the Huffington Post, including Relix magazine naming Deutsch’s 4th album Outlaw Jazz the #16 best album of 2015. He was recently voted the #5 Rising Star Organist in Downbeat Magazine's annual poll, where he has been recognized for consecutive years.
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