2006 Select Itinerary

1/19/06 The Union, Kalamazoo MI, w/Keith Hall

1/22/06 Western Jazz Quartet CD release concert for “Mayan Myths”, WMU

1/26/06 The Union “Broach” Clifford Brown/Max Roach tribute, Kalamazoo, MI

1/27-1/30/06 WJQ Residency at Queens University, Charlotte, NC

2/9/06 Kalamazoo Valley Museum w/Holly Holmes

2/11/06 WJQ, Coldwater, MI

2/25/06 WJQ w/ The Kalamazoo Concert Band, Miller Auditorium

3/9/06 WJQ w/Stefon Harris, at The Union

3/11/06 WJQ w/Stefon Harris at the WMU Invitational Jazz Festival

3/23/06 Master Class at the Paris National Conservatory

3/25-3/27/06 Recording sessions for “Duo for Double Bass and Violin” at the Paris

Bastille Opera House; w/Daniel Marillier and Frederick LaRoque

3/31/06 CD Release concert for Music of Frank Proto and Astor Piazzolla

w/ The Merling Trio, WMU

4/7- 4/8/06 WJQ at The Union

4/9/06 Spring Lake Chamber Music Society

5/11/06 Kerry Town Concert House w/OPUS 21

5/12/06 Residency at Leslie High School, MI

5/20/06 Symphony Space, NYC w/OPUS 21

6/22/06 The Union “Broach” Clifford Brown/Max Roach tribute

6/23/06 Kalamazoo College w/OPUS 21

6/24/06 Carnegie Center, Three Rivers w/OPUS 21

7/1-7/9/06 Tour of Slovenia w/WJQ; World Sax Congress, US State Department

concerts, and clinics

7/21/06 WVPE series, Elkhart, IN w/WJQ

7/23/06 Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo series w/WJQ

8/11-8/12/06 WJQ at The Union

8/14-8/19/06 Concerts and master classes at the Wroclaw International Bass Festival,

Poland, w/Renata Artman Knific and John Clayton

10/27/06 The Firefly, Ann Arbor w/ Scott Cowan and the WJQ

12/31/06 WJQ soloists w/Reading Symphony Orchestra, PA

1/5/07 International Society of Bassists, Oklahoma City, OK

1/8/07 Wycliffe Gordon, West Ottawa Performing Arts Center

2007 Select Itinerary

1/10–1/13/07 International Society for Jazz Education, NYC; WMU

Jazz Octet, with Billy Hart, Fred Hersch, Stefon Harris

1/19-1/20/07 Guest conductor, clinician, MSBOA District 4

Festival, Detroit, MI

1/22/07 Scott Cowan Group, Zion Lutheran Church, Kalamazoo, MI

1/26/07 The Brasil Project, The Union, Kalamazoo, MI

2/1/07 WMU Jazz Lab Band, Dalton Center, Kalamazoo, MI

2/2/07 Clifford Brown/Max Roach tribute, The Union

Kalamazoo, MI

2/14/07 Luciana Souza w/ Edward Simon and Keith Hall,

Fontana Chamber Arts

2/22/07 OPUS 21, GVSU, Grand Rapids, MI

3/10/07 The Brasil Project, w/Jamey Haddad, Nighttown,

Cleveland, OH

3/13/07 Proto Quartet w/The Merling Trio, WMU

3/15/07 Proto Quartet w/The Merling Trio, WMU

3/16/07 Jiggs Whigams w/WJQ, WMU

3/17/07 WMU Jazz Festival

3/21/07 WJQ live radio broadcast on WBLV

3/22/07 Adjudicator, District 10 Festival, Grand Rapids, MI

3/29/07 The Union, WMU Lab Band

4/4/07 WMU Lab Band, Dalton Center, WMU

4/9-4/15/07 WJQ North Carolina tour; Western Carolina University;

Lenoir-Rhyne College; Queens University

4/18/07 WJQ, WMU Dalton Center

4/19/07 Guest Soloist, Case Western Reserve University Combo

and Big Band, Cleveland, OH

4/26/07 WMU Lab Band, The Union

4/27-4/28/07 WJQ, The Union

4/29/07 WJQ New Buffalo Performing Arts Center, MI

5/1/07 WJQ Women’s Club of Jackson, MI

5/4/07 Interlochen All Stars, 40^th Anniversary Concert

w/Peter Erskine, Xavier Davis, Walter White, Bill Sears, etc.

5/8/07 OPUS 21, Wayland HS, MI

5/11/07 OPUS 21, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

5/16-5/28/07 WJQ, US State Department tour, Croatia, Slovenia

6/3-6/9/07 International Society of Bassists convention, Oklahoma

City, OK. Concerts w/ John Clayton, Jacek Niedziela;

Bill Mays, Tim Froncek; John, Gene and Renata Knific.

6/19-6/20/07 OPUS 21 Recording Sessions w/ Tania Leon

6/23/07 Billy Drewes, Tad Weed, Keith Hall, The Union

7/5-7/7/07 Jim Leihenseder, Keith Hall, The Union

7/12,19/07 WMU Seminar HS Program

7/12-7/13/07 Saugatuck Chamber Music Festival

7/21/07 WJQ, Marshall Jazz Festival, MI

7/28/07 WJQ, Suttons Bay Jazz Festival, MI

8/17-8/18/07 Chris Beckstrom, John Knific, Keith Hall, The Union

9/10-9/16/07 International Double Bass Convention, Janacek

Academy, Brno, Czech Republic

10/6/07 WJQ, Meadowbrook, Detroit

10/13/07 Max Roach/Clifford Brown Tribute, The Union

10/14/07 Naomi Stucki Tribute, Civic Auditorium, Kalamazoo

10/17/07 WMU Lab Band, Dalton Center

11/1/07 Keith Hall Trio, The Union

11/9/07 WJQ, Farmington Hills, MI Concert Series

11/10/07 Festival of Sacred Music, with Yale Strom, Kalamazoo

11/16/07 WMU Lab Band, Annual Swing Concert, Dalton Center

11/17/07 John Knific Recital, Harkness Chapel, CWRU, Cleveland

11/23,24/07 Knific/Beckstrom/Hall The Union

11/28/07 WJQ Clarkston Residency, MI

11/29/07 Renata Artman Knific, Bolcom CD Release, WMU

12/2/07 WMU Jazz Christmas Concert, Miller Auditorium

12/13/07 WMU Lab Band, The Union

12/14,15/07 WJQ at The Union

12/20/07 Tom Knific Quartet (John Knific, Chris Beckstrom, Keith Hall) CD recording, Cleveland Institute of Music

12/21/07 Tom Knific Quartet, Nighttown, Cleveland

12/31/07 WJQ, New Years fest, Kalamazoo

2008 Select Itinerary

1/12-1/20/08 WJQ, U.S. Department of State Tour, Chile

1/13/08 U.S. Ambassadors Residence

1/14/08 Rancagua Jazz Festival

1/15/08 Teatro del Maule, Talca

1/16/08 Providencia Jazz Festival, Santiago

1/17/08 Club de jazz, Santiago, master class and concert

1/18/08 Festival de Pirque

1/19/08 Foundation Balmaceda, master class

2/1/08 Jon Faddis, West Ottawa Performing Arts Center

2/5/08 WMU Jazz Lab Band, The Union, with Paul Ferguson

2/6/08 WMU Jazz Lab Band, Dalton Center, with Paul Ferguson

2/26/08 Holly Hoffman Quartet, Dalton Center, WMU

2/29/08 Holly Hoffman Quartet, Hart, MI

3/7,8/08 The Stulberg International String Competition; Judge,

master class, Dalton Center, Kalamazoo

3/15/08 John Abercrombie/Mark Soskin Quartet, The Blue Olive,

Canton, OH

3/16/08 John Abercrombie/Mark Soskin Quartet, Nighttown,

Cleveland, OH

3/18/08 John Abercrombie/Mark Soskin Quartet, Dalton Center,

WMU

3/23-29/08 Billy Hart 15^th Anniversary Residency

3/27/08 Billy Hart, Xavier Davis, Trent Kynaston, The Union

3/28/08 Billy Hart, Xavier Davis, Trent Kynaston, the Alumni Drum Choir, with Tim Frocncek Sam Kestenholtz, Vance Okraszewksi, etc.

3/29/08 28^th Annual Western Invitational Jazz Festival, Billy Hart, Xavier Davis, Trent Kynaston, Jazz Lab Band, etc., Dalton Center

3/30- 4/1/08 Record Kevin Cole Gershwin CD, University of Michigan studios

4/3/08 WJQ, WMU Spring Conference, Dalton Center

4/8/08 Jazz Lab Band, The Union

4/9/08 Jazz Lab Band, Dalton Center

4/14/08 WJQ, MUS 1500, Dalton Center

4/21 – 5/1/08 Tom and Renata Artman Knific Residency, Beijing, China; master classes at China Conservatory, lessons at Central Conservatory, recital, including world premiere of Knific’s “Zhang Song”, for violin and double bass. Beijing, China

5/6-5/13/08 Amsterdam with John Knific; Paris – meet with Francois Rabbath, Thierry Barbe - and Regis Prudhomme for publication of original works.

5/16/08 WJQ, Grand Haven Jazz Festival, master class and concert

5/30/08 WJQ, with Logan Thomas, The Union

6/8/08 Kevin Cole, Ravinia, Chicago

6/15/08 WJQ, Museum of Fine Arts Series, ST Petersburg, FL

6/24-26/08 Kind of Blue Recording, Arcadia Recording Studio

6/27,28/08 Kevin Cole, Bay City, MI