Acclaimed pianist, composer and drummer Steve Grover performs with his jazz ensemble at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n
Grover, the 1994 winner of the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz\/BMI Jazz Composers Competition for Blackbird Suite<\/em>, also garnered recognition as a winner in the 1996 JAZZIZ magazine Percussionists on Fire talent search. In addition to teaching ensembles, drum set and jazz piano at the University of Maine at Augusta and ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College, since 1984 Grover has been director and faculty member for the Maine Jazz Camp, a two-week summer program held each summer on the University of Maine at Farmington campus.<\/p>\n As a jazz drummer, Grover has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Tate and Lenny Breau, among many others, and has recorded two CDs, Blackbird Suite<\/em> and In the G Zone<\/em>.<\/p>\n The concert is co-sponsored by the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College Concerts Committee and the college’s music department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Acclaimed pianist, composer and drummer Steve Grover will perform with his jazz ensemble 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"","_header-color":"","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39],"tags":[1324,6135,6889,8186,9087],"class_list":["post-21847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","tag-bates-college-concert-series","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-steve-grover","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92485,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21847\/revisions\/92485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}