Rachael Price to Perform at Presidential Lecture & Performance Series
October 14, 2009
By: Allison Matherly
Jazz vocalist Rachael Price will perform at the Presidential Lecture & Performance
Series at Texas Tech University at 7 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Student Union Building Allen
Theatre.
Jazz vocalist Rachael Price will perform at the Presidential Lecture & Performance
Series at Texas Tech University at 7 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Student Union Building Allen
Theatre.
Born in Australia, raised in Nashville, Tenn., Price began her career at the age of
18, opening for Joshua Redman at New Haven’s “Jazz on the Green,” and received a standing
ovation.
When thinking of Nashville, jazz is not typically what comes to mind. The 22-year-old
said she appreciates all kinds of music.
“Jazz hit an inner chord with me at the age of five,” Price said. “I heard Ella Fitzgerald’s
rendition of The Lady is a Tramp. I didn’t understand the lyrics, but I liked the
feeling it gave me.”
Price’s trio which includes Erik Privert on bass, Warren Wolf on piano and Dave Brophy
on drums will accompany her.
Some of Price’s achievements include command performances for legends Sir Elton John
at The Society of Singers, and Robert Goulet for the famed Shubert Organization, among
others. In 2003, Price was tapped by the Grammy Foundation as a vocalist with the
High School Grammy Jazz Choir, and she was a semi-finalist at the Montreux International
Jazz Vocal Competition in France. In 2004, Price was the youngest competitor at the
Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. August 2004 brought her professional
U. S. jazz festival debut at Yale’s Jazz on the Green, opening for Joshua Redman.
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www.presidentialseries.ttu.edu.
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CONTACT: Jo Moore, administrator, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Texas Tech
University, (806) 742-0700 or jo.moore@ttu.edu.