Recitals series presents award-winning composer/pianist Becky Archibald Nov. 3

Release Date: 10/27/2003. Expired: 11/3/2003

Weaving the improvisational style of jazz with classical piano, award-winning composer/pianist Becky Archibald creates music that is inviting, intense and intimate. She seeks depth and integrity in her writing, setting aside notions of what music ought to be and listening for resonances within.

Indianapolis resident Archibald brings a sound described by Indie-Music.com as “mischievous, playful, flowing, hypnotic, precise and sweet” to The Renaissance Center’s Recitals in the Rotunda series Monday, Nov. 3. The 7 p.m. concert in the rotunda is free.

Archibald’s music has been compared to Gershwin, Chopin, Bill Evans and George Winston. Her piano CDs, The Long Ride Home and Searching, receive airplay on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

“Her music unfolds like I expect a good story to unfold,” said Bob Boilen, director of All Things Considered.

“Her first CD, Searching, showed her potential for original sensitive communication,” said Chuck Workman, WTPI host. “Now with her second release, she confirms her talent.”

With a Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from California State University at Long Beach, Archibald began teaching at the University of Indianapolis in 1991. After six years of service, she felt compelled to not just talk about music, but create it herself. Her first composition, Searching, written in 1997 as a gift for her mother, became the title track of her debut CD, which was nominated for Best Instrumental Album in the Just Plain Folks 2000 Album Awards, a national independent music organization.

“I am not sure if the local music community yet realizes what a jewel in Becky they have in their midst,” said Brian Austin Whitney, founder of Just Plain Folks, which in March named The Long Ride Home as Best Solo Instrumental Album.

In July 2002, Archibald made her Nashville debut on Nashville Public Radio’s Live in Studio C. An Indiana native, Archibald gave a critically acclaimed solo concert for the Indiana History Center’s Sounds of Indiana concert series. She has been a guest artist at universities, churches, libraries and jazz stages.

A private teacher for the past 15 years, Archibald specializes in teaching her students to write music. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Anderson University, studying Piano Performance and Business. She is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and a recipient of the ASCAPlus award for the past two years.

“We are extremely pleased to have an artist of Becky Archibald’s ability to participate in our Recitals in the Rotunda series,” said Elaine Sherrill, senior director of Music at The Renaissance Center.

The Recitals in the Rotunda series presents free concerts every other Monday in the rotunda of The Renaissance Center featuring professional musicians, faculty from regional universities and accomplished student groups. The recitals are videotaped by the center’s award-winning Multimedia Department and broadcast on the High Notes program on the Renaissance Channel (Comcast 19 in Dickson).

For more information on the Recitals in the Rotunda series, call (615)740-5600. The Renaissance Center is an arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.

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