CMS presents, a South American now a Boston creative Jazz pianist, Tatiana, joined again by two young and vital other Boston Jazz creatives.

Growing and heard more often—for an inter-generational new journey, The Creative Music Series presents:

Tatiana Castro Mejia’s Trio, piano,

Evan Palmer, upright bass,

John Dalton, drums

7:45PM, doors: 7:15

$18, $15 seniors, students, cash, venmo

Lead by Tatiana Castro Mejia, pianist, and poet who moved here just before the Pandemic, she brings her personal and cultural improv and free Jazz to Boston to express a unique “hemispheric” language of improvisation through Free-Jazz.

“…from her creative need to express from the music and from the word: Find(ing) paths that explore beyond the song. Explore in narration, storyteller. Let the word recite next to the music. Play with it from improvisation, and let it interact with the sound. Music and text. Text and music”. And Castro Mejia carries it out from three different perspectives: compositions with music and words, instrumental (with the music suggesting poetic figures) and narrated (where the voice is expressed musically)”. - El Intruo

From a very young age she always had an interest, a curiosity for the creative, to assemble and disassemble, mostly from the sound, but at times touching other languages: dance, writing, dramaturgy. Today, more than 20 years after having decided to dedicate her life to music, she walks a path where improvisation plays a leading role and she seeks to cross lines with dance and theater, with writing and poetry. She studied at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia) where she graduated obtaining the title of "Master of Music with Emphasis in Jazz". Between 2005 and 2006 she studied with the Argentine pianist Ernesto Jodos in Buenos Aires, thanks to a scholarship granted by the Fernando Sor School of Music in Bogotá and the Buenos Aires School of Contemporary Music where she was a teacher (www.escuelademusica. org). Her professional artistic life began in Bogotá, but she has had a strong development in Buenos Aires, where she has lived for 15 years.

Tatiana Castro Mejía was born in Colombia. In 2004, she earned a scholarship to study with Ernesto Jodos and Rodrigo Domínguez. She played in Mair, Tekeye, Bogotaires and Proyecto de Música Contemporánea. She released Ciclos, her first album. She co-directs a music and dance collective improvisation project with dancer Aleema Curri. She leads a quintet that plays the music of Eric Dolphy.

Piano & Guitar (w/ Gonzalo Muruaga) (Buenos Aires, 2016): youtube.com/tcm1January 2019, Voice & piano duo (Improv): youtube.com/tcm2March 8, 2020, Piano solo (Sound intervention to a poem): youtube.com/tcm3

Evan Palmer (they/he) is an improviser, bassist, oboist, English hornist, composer and educator based in Boston, Massachusetts. He specializes in music in the Black American tradition, particularly improvised music. Evan is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he receiveded a Bachelor of Music in Bass Performance, studying with John Lockwood, Billy Kilson, Bruno Räberg and many more. He has performed and recorded with many artists including Francisco Mela, Phil Grenadier, Jim Robitaille, Leo Blanco, Shinya Lin, Mark Walker, and John Dalton. Evan's band performs their own improvisations and compositions as well as music by Andrew Hill, Eric Dolphy, and other great composers. Evan is currently a private lesson instructor for the Hopkinton Music Association, Note-Worthy Experiences and Karen Amlaw Music.

John Dalton is a graduate of the U of Mass Dartmouth where he received a diverse musical education, especially in his studies with Chris Poudrier and Jim Robitaille, developeing fluency in a variety of styles as both an improvising musician and composer. He is also a published scholar in journals such as The Peer Review. John has performed with Jim Robitaille, Jing Wang, Dino Govoni, Amanda Monaco, Barry Altschul, Ricky Ford, Jerome Harris and others. John’s modular ensemble “Spheres of Influence” performs original compositions, standards, as well as arrangements of well-known repertoire.

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