Donal Fox

"Internationally acclaimed pianist, composer and improviser Donal Fox is simply without peer. He is a bravura concert artist whose performance of bracingly original repertoire such as Peace Out for Improvised Piano and Orchestra and The Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project have earned him prestigious honors (a Guggenheim, a Bogliasco Foundation fellowship, and American Academy of Arts and Letters Award), gratifying residences and appointments (with the St. Louis Symphony, at the Library of Congress, at Harvard and most recently as a Martin Luther King Visiting Scholar at MIT), and the awed applause of critic and audiences alike. Audacious and exacting though Fox's music is, he communicates directly and seeks to elevate everyone's musical interactions beyond expectations and conventions. Fox has a singular presence in today's circle of serous cultural activists."
-- Howard Mandel, Senior contributor to Down Beat, arts segment producer on National Public Radio, author of Miles Ornette Cecil – Jazz Beyond Jazz and Future Jazz.