The USA International Harp Competition presents

Guest Recital
Park Stickney, jazz harp, with guest artist Jeremy Allen, bass

Guest Recital
July 8, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
 Buskirk-Chumley Theater
Bloomington

Tickets on sale at the Buskirk-Chumley Box Office in person or by phone at 812-323-3020 bctboxoffice.org
$25 - General Admission
$15 - Student Admission

Park Stickney, jazz harp

While attempting to live simultaneously on a farm in Valeyres-sous-Ursins Switzerland, and in Brooklyn, New York, harpist Park Stickney is constantly in motion, giving concerts worldwide, from Adelaide to Zaragoza, solo, or with various collaborations, including the GFI Trio with Björn Meyer and Araxi Karnussian (harp/bass/sax), Héliu with Guo Gan and Frédéric Folmer (harp/bass/erhu) and the world music quartet Modus.

Stickney was the subject of a 2018 film by “Plans Fixes” a series which aims to document the French-speaking part of Switzerland through the eyes of regional personalities. He’s appeared on the French television program “La Boîte à Musique,” performed on the QE2, recorded with the “Crash Test Dummies” and Jonathan Coulton, played with young oud students in the West Bank, given concerts in a mine in South- Tyrol, in a thermal bath in Switzerland, in a New York McDonalds, in Sri Lanka, in Hong Kong, in Moscow, Madras, Moldavia... He’s played Broadway orchestra pits in NY, toured with the Fantasticks in Japan, played a soldout solo show at the Sennheiser Shanghai Concert Hall, and appears regularly on page 97 of Patricia Cornwell’s novel “From Potter’s Field.”

Park teaches at the Royal Academy of Music, London and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Lyon, and has given masterclasses and workshops at nearly every harp festival that exists. In 2021 he completed a Ph.D. (Giant Steps for Harp: New Approaches to the Pedals), at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London. He is also an enthusiastic and spectacularly absent Swiss volunteer fireman.

Jeremy Allen, bass

Jeremy Allen, a Grammy-nominated bassist, has performed in the United States and abroad with such jazz luminaries as Fred Hersch, Mike Stern, David Liebman, Kenny Wheeler, Bob Brookmeyer, and George Garzone. DownBeat magazine describes his playing as “worthy of Jaco Pastorius.” He has recorded on Origin Records, Cadence Records, Patois Records, Artists House Music, and his own label, Watercourse Records. Well-known in Bloomington, Jeremy recently served as the Interim Dean of the Jacobs School of Music and has taught jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since 2006.

This engagement is supported by the Arts Midwest GIG Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Indiana Arts Commission.