Artist - Moab Music Festival

Hot House West is an exciting ensemble whose mission is to celebrate the timeless allure of swing rhythm. Founded in Salt Lake City in 2011, the band cultivates a one-of-a-kind personality blending the virtuosic yet soulful music of Django Reinhardt with their western roots and American swing influence.

The band has become a tight-knit community of some of the country’s top-tier jazz musicians, and the friendship and community spirit they share is immediately palpable. Group vocals, audience interaction, masterful improvisation, and a ceaseless swinging pocket keep audiences smiling, laughing, and tapping their feet from the first note to the last.

The Hot House West Swing Orchestra combines stellar vocals, a big band of horns, and a Django-inspired rhythm section sound consisting of two guitars, bass, and drums. Their guitar-driven interplay, acrobatic horn lines, punchy hits, and collective improvisation alluding to the streets of New Orleans captures a holistic definition of swing unmatched by any other group.

Upcoming Performances:

Sept 4 – Rocky Mountain Power Community Concert

Sept 9 – Hot House West Swing Orchestra at Sorrel River Ranch

Alex is an in-demand freelance bassist and educator, finding passion within all styles of music and celebrating the more diverse elements when they are offered. Alex performs frequently on upright bass, all electric basses, synth and sousaphone. Throughout his career he has backed a broad spectrum of some of the world’s greatest talents. He is a Utah native, graduating from The University of Utah with his Bachelor’s degree in Jazz Performance and his Master’s degree in Arts of Teaching. He has taught music to all age groups and finds the most educational joy in helping to hone every human’s fingerprint within the field. Alex has received many competitive accolades over the years and endorses Aguilar Amplification and Mattisson Basses. Over the past several years, Alex has lead many groups and created a Jazz Vespers Concert Series at Life in Christ Church, trying to bring unique groups and voices to the stage together, for the community. He performs, arranges and composes regularly in studio and live settings. Alex is ecstatic to be joining his alma mater as their adjunct professor of jazz bass.

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Sept 2 – 100 Years of Ragtime

Kale is a Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist specializing in clarinet, steel guitar, ukulele and old-school jazz vocals. In addition to being a niche gig and session player, Kale tours internationally with the critically-acclaimed Black Market Trust. From Sinatra to Sleepwalk, his fresh take on classic melodies is sure to create a vintage vibe.

Upcoming Performances:

June 9 – Floating Concert: Water, Rocks & Jazz

June 10 – Family Music Hike

June 10 – Garden Benefit Concert

Jun 11 – Community Concert

Jun 13-17 – Cataract Canyon Raft Trip

The Hot House West Quartet consists of two guitars (Nathan Royal, James Martak), bass (Alex Rowe), and clarinet (Kale Stiles); harkening back to the traditional sounds of Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of Paris. The dynamic interplay of the clarinet and lead guitar balanced by the driving pulse of the rhythm guitar and bass creates an unforgettable swing experience for the listener.

Upcoming Performances:

Jun 9 – Floating Concert: Water, Rocks, and Jazz

Jun 10 – Family Music Hike

Jun 10 – Garden Benefit Concert

Jun 11 – MMF High Water Community Concert

As one of Hot House West’s founding members, James has been providing the driving rhythm for the band since 2011. James began playing guitar when he was in high school and graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor’s degree in Jazz Performance in 2014. He has since performed all over the U.S. and parts of Europe with Hot House West and has performed alongside artists such as Gonzalo Bergara, Frank Vignola, Olli Soikkeli, and Tcha Limberger.

Upcoming Performances:

Jun 9 – Floating Concert: Water, Rocks, and Jazz

Jun 10 – Family Music Hike

Jun 10 – Garden Benefit Concert

Jun 11 – Community Concert

Hailed by The New York Times for her “inexhaustible virtuosity”, Yoonah is the winner of the 2016 Concert Artists Guild International Competition – the first solo clarinetist to win CAG in nearly 30 years. That same year Yoonah became the first woman to win first prize both at the Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition and the 2016 George Gershwin International Competition. In 2020, she won the Gold medal at the Vienna International Competition. Yoonah enjoys a diverse career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, and educator. She believes in advocating for the clarinet by commissioning new works such as Eric Nathan’s Double Concerto for Violin and Clarinet, Texu Kim’s reimagination of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for solo clarinet and string orchestra, and Andrew Hsu’s Erebus for clarinet and piano and Three Pieces for solo clarinet.

Yoonah has appeared in recitals at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess series, and DC’s Washington Performing Arts series, among others. From 2016-2018, she was a member of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, where she served as an education ambassador for New York City schools. Yoonah has appeared at chamber music festivals including Marlboro, Mainly Mozart, Bravo! Vail.

Born in Seoul and raised in British Columbia, Yoonah is on the clarinet faculty at New York University. She is a Vandoren Artist.

Upcoming Performances:

Sep 6 – Music Hike III: Living Legends

Sep 7 – The Promise of Peace

Serene is a concert pianist from a most unexpected trajectory. Though she never attended conservatory, her solo performances have been described by The Paris Review as a “spectacle to match the New York Philharmonic”. Today, Serene has become one of the most talked about young talents in the classical music and beyond.

Beyond concertizing, Serene enjoys other collaborations such as her role as composer for Kayne West’s Opera, premiered at Lincoln Center and Art Basel, as well as pianist and technologist with Blue Man Group’s founder, bringing futuristic innovations at the intersection of music and technology while also highlighting her own audiovisual synesthesia.

Previously, Serene was a computer scientist, Google Engineer, and senior research fellow on various projects, before leaving to fully focus on the piano. In the brief years since, she has cultivated a disciplined, personal, and spiritual approach to her music. With her intersections of many disciplines, plus the “ability to enthrall audiences”, she has grown an international following.

Serene is one of very few self-taught pianists who’ve performed Rachmanioff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, which was described as “unprecedented” by the Liszt Academy. Serene loves sharing the beauty and power of classical music with audiences everywhere in venues ranging from the Vienna Musikverein to a full orchestra in Golden Gate park, to a decommissioned Boeing 747. Serene is a Bösendorfer Artist.

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 26 – Piano Marathon: One Day, Three Concerts

Aug 27 – Floating Concert

Praised by The Strad as an “utterly dazzling” artist, Danbi captivates audiences with her virtuosity, individual sound, and interpretive sensitivity. She is a Menuhin International Violin Competition Silver Medalist, a winner of the prestigious 2018 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and a recent top prizewinner of the Naumburg International Violin Competition. Recent and upcoming engagements include appearances with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and her Washington, DC, recital debut at the Phillips Collection. This season will also see her return to the Rockport, Moab, Saratoga Performing Arts (SPAC), Santa Fe, and North Shore Music Festivals, as well as her debuts at the Cleveland Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music San Francisco, and the Mostly Music, Newburyport, La Musica (Sarasota), and Chelsea Music Festivals. In addition, she embarks on a duo recital tour with guitarist Jiji. Her debut album, Much Ado: Romantic Violin Masterworks, will be released in fall 2023. Past concerto engagements include appearances with the Israel Symphony, Auckland Philharmonic, Vermont Symphony, and Dartmouth Symphony. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Um moved to the United States to study at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she earned a bachelor’s degree. She also holds an Artist Diploma from Indiana University. Her teachers have included Shmuel Ashkenasi, Joseph Silverstein, Jaime Laredo, and Hagai Shaham. She plays a 1683 “ex-Petschek” Nicolo Amati violin, on loan from a private collection.

Upcoming Performances:

Sept 10 – Music Hike II: Free Voices of Eastern Europe

Sept 10 – The Four Seasons According To Glass and Piazzolla

Sept 11 – Grotto III: German Masterpieces

Simone has been recognized as an emerging artist of impassioned energy, interpretive integrity, and vibrant communication. She has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician including debuts with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic; and with a number of renowned conductors, including Stéphane Denève, Gustavo Dudamel, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Nicholas McGegan, Ludovic Morlot, and Donald Runnicles. Born in 1996, Simone made her professional solo debut at age 10 with the Seattle Symphony and her international debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London at age 13. In March 2015, Simone was named a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

The 23/24 season included appearances at the Domaine-Forget and Moab Music Festivals, followed by orchestral performances in Shreveport, Burlington, Columbus, Hawaii, Greenville, Mobile and Rockford symphonies as well as a debut with Orquesta Clasica Santa Cecilia de la Fundacion Excelentia (Madrid). In recital, Simone was heard in Kentucky, California, and Aspen, CO.

Raised in Seattle, Washington, Simone studied with Margaret Pressley as a recipient of the Dorothy Richard Starling Scholarship and renowned pedagogue Robert Lipsett at the Colburn Conservatory of Music. She performs on a 1740 Carlo Bergonzi violin made in Cremona, Italy on generous loan from The Master’s University, Santa Clarita, California. simoneporterviolin.com

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 28 – A Movable, Musical Feast

Aug 29 – Grotto I: 19th Century Classics

Aug 31 – Music Hike I: Mozart in the Morning

Aug 31 – Red Cliffs I: Colorado Currents

Sep 1 – Red Cliffs II: BAILEN

Rob Patterson is Assistant Professor of Clarinet at Boston University’s School of Music, faculty at the Aria International Summer Academy, and Acting Principal Clarinet of the Modesto Symphony Orchestra.

Rob’s chamber music performances have taken him across North and South America, Europe and Asia. In Boston, he has performed with the Boston Symphony Chamber Musicians at the Boston Public Library, and has performed contemporary music as a member of the VERGE Ensemble in Washington, DC. Previously he was a member of the Philadelphia-based Ensemble 39, which was invited to serve in residence at the Teatro del Lago in Frutillar, Chile.

Rob has been the featured soloist in Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and the Charlottesville Symphony as well as the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Lyrique-En-Mer Orchestra, Binghamton Philharmonic, Middletown Symphony Orchestra, and the Howard County Concert Players. As a former Strathmore Music Center Artist in Residence, Rob presented a series of solo recitals, masterclasses, and a recital at the Kennedy Center.

Rob has served as Acting Principal Clarinet with the Baltimore and Louisville Orchestras as well as Principal Clarinet with the Charlottesville Symphony and Lyrique-en-Mer Festival Orchestra in France. Additionally, he has served as guest Principal Clarinet for the orchestras of Albany, Cincinnati, Richmond, Huntsville, Pasadena, Peoria, as well as the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.

Recent masterclass invitations have included the Curtis Institute, San Francisco Conservatory, Peabody Institute, University of North Texas, University of Toronto, Grieg Academy, Sibelius Academy, and Royal College of Music (Sweden). www.robwpatterson.com

Upcoming Performances:

Aug 25 – American Minimalism: A Retrospective

Aug 27 – Floating Concert

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