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Mac Chrupcala
Mac had a career as a music educator as the Supervisor of MusicK-12 for the Newport RI public Schools for 25 years before his retirement from that position. He also taught at the University of Rhode Island and was on the faculty of the RI School of Music in Providence, RI. He was a consultant for the Wurlitzer Piano Company as a Piano Lab specialist.
In the past 25 years Mac has been commissioned to write many compositions. Among them are:”Celebration 1” for Choir and Jazz Tri forTrinity Church in Newport, RI, “Celebration II” for Orchestral Strings and Jazz trio which was commissioned for and performed by, the URI String Orchestra.He also wrote “The Search” a children’s musical and the music for “Bakers Dozen” an award winning Mac has recorded his own CD’s on the Seaside Label.’’Blue Moon”and “ In Newport” are 2 of his trio CD’s He has also recorded with Ray Alexander, “Vigorous Vibes.” Steve Marvin, “Live at Scullers” and with Greg Abate,”My Buddy” and” Broken Dreams”. These are available from CD Baby and Gats Productions in Tokyo, Japan.
About his playing it has been said:”Mac Chrupcala brings an uncommon sort of graceful pleasure to his piano playing,his notes tumbling forth or inching along in a most intelligent and interesting manner.
Mac has performed with jazz noteables: Irene Reed,Dick Johnson, Herb Pomeroy,Greg Hopkins, Giacomo Gates, Slide Hampton, George Coleman Greg Abate, Marlene VerPlank and many others.
For 16 years Mac has produced an ongoing jazz series in Newport on Sunday.
Mac spends winters on the Gulf Coast of Florida performing with the many world class musicians who reside there all winter long. Source: Mac Chrupcala
Awards
Mac was recently inducted into the Newport Jazz Hall of Fame and will be featured on April 25 in the “Jazz Legends of RI” concert with the Greg Abate Quartet.
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Jerome Wilson, Cadence “Mac Chrupcala has the finely-honed piano chops to rank with the best of them”
Elizabeth Goodwin, Jazz Now “ ...much impressed by Mac Chrupcala—-lots of logic and content plus much fire and
Carl Cooper, WICN Radio “ Mac plays the kind of jazz everyone can enjoy...tasteful and beautifully performed, it is piano playing that our audience loves.”
WLMI Radio, LI,New York