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DESCRIPTION:Finland-based pianist Mika Pohjola and New York City percussion
 ist Kyle Struve perform a concert of traditional and modern music. Hear wh
 y Finnish jazz has plenty of design.Mika Pohjola is a Finnish-born jazz pi
 anist and composer\, who resides in Stockholm\, Sweden. He lived and worke
 d in New York City from 1995 to 2012\, and produced about thirty albums an
 d toured with his ensembles in Europe\, Americas and Japan. He has played 
 with Miguel Zenón\, Chris Cheek\, Rigmor Gustafsson\, Antonio Sanchez\, Je
 ff Ballard\, Fernando Huergo\, Ben Monder and several others. He is one of
  the most prolific Scandinavian jazz musicians in his generation. Pohjola 
 is also a Steinway & Sons distinguished artist since 1997 and a Major Visi
 ting Artist at Berklee College of Music since 2006. He now teaches at the 
 Royal College of Music in Stockholm and runs a record label\, BlueMusicGro
 up.com\, for which he also works as a mastering engineer. Kyle Struve is a
  jazz drummer and percussionist based in Brooklyn\, NY.  After graduating 
 from Lawrence University in 2001 with a degree in Percussion Performance\,
  he moved to NYC to study with John Riley at the Manhattan School of Music
 .  While completing a Master's Degree in Jazz Studies\, Struve began freel
 ancing on the straight ahead and original music scenes\, performing with M
 arcus Strickland\, Walter Blanding Jr.\, Jaleel Shaw\, Dave Binney\, and o
 thers.  He also performed and recorded with the Brooklyn indie band Heavy 
 Rescue.  Since 2012\, he has played field drum and drumset with the indoor
 /outdoor street band Asphalt Orchestra.  He is also in collaboration with 
 his wife\, photographer and multimedia artist Elizabeth Leitzell\, on a se
 ries of short videos.  Subjects include the process of hiking a drumset up
  a small mountain for an improvised performance\, and the recording of a m
 ultitrack piece based around a homemade marimba constructed from 2x4 board
 s.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Cool Finnish
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