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Joel Vanderheyden
Vanderheyden has performed at jazz festivals in Switzerland, France, and notable stateside venues including Carnegie Hall, Blues Alley, The Dakota, The Artists’ Quarter, The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and The Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts. In 2000, Joel performed with Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown at the Montreux Jazz Festival, opening for B.B. King, and has since shared the stage with many notable national and local jazz luminaries, including Jeff "Tain" Watts, Allen Vizzutti, Ingrid Jensen, Byron Stripling, Bruce Paulsen, Butch Warren, Vaughn Nark, Toby Koenigsberg, Jon Metzger, Mark Olen, Don Stille, Frank Dawson, Kenni Holmen, Mary-Louise Knutson, Phil Holm, Dave Graff, Butch Thompson, and Phil Hey.
Vanderheyden’s work has been commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and has been featured at the Iowa Jazz Championships and the Iowa City Jazz Festival. An active supporter of new music, he has also commissioned new works from composer Aaron Perrine, including Flow (2009), a sonata for saxophone and piano. Vanderheyden is a member of The College Music Society, North American Saxophone Alliance, Jazz Education Network, and MENC. He is a recipient of the Keith Carlson Memorial Jazz Award, Zeta Phi Eta Memorial Performing Arts Grant, University of Iowa Flood Relief Recording Grant, Hansen Memorial Music Award, and was nominated for an Excellence in Teaching Award in 2006.
Joel Vanderheyden’s recent studio album is titled Complete Life and was released on the Mize Music label in 2009. Drawing influence from the music of Radiohead, Michael Brecker, and Beck, Complete Life blends elements of jazz, rock and electronic music to create emotionally charged sonic colors that are progressive, refreshing, and epic. For more information, please visit www.joelvanderheyden.com.
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Joel Vanderheyden: Complete Life
by Glenn Astarita
Iowa-based saxophonist and educator Joel Vanderheyden assimilates various genres into a distinct group sound, performing with members of the underground jazz group known as Koplant_No on his debut release. Complete with jazz-fusion and jazz-rock overtones, spiced with loops, samples and effects, the program projects a modicum of diversity and jazz-framed exploration. It all makes for a cunning series of polytonal movements and settings.
The ensemble's blustery and at times, hard-hitting work-ethic is devised on popping backbeats, synth driven ...
read moreFulfilling Graduation Requirement, Ui Saxophone Student's CD is Opening Ears
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All About Jazz
Fulfilling graduation requirement, UI saxophone student's CD is opening ears Programming directors and on-air personalities at jazz radio stations keep their ears open for exciting new work in the ongoing stream of new CD releases. When they hear something fresh, they share the music with their listeners. One of the recent CD's to catch their attention is Complete Life," by saxophonist Joel Vanderheyden (http://www.joelvanderheyden.com), which has already captured airtime in Iowa, New York, California, Virginia, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Michigan, ...
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Saxophone, tenor
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On the Lam
From: Mystery StreetBy Joel Vanderheyden