Sunday, May 8 at 3:30pm
Take Mom to Bevan Manson!
Ventura’s own Bevan Manson is a free-lance composer/arranger and jazz pianist in L.A. and points west, he has been a faculty member at New England Conservatory, Director of UC Jazz at UC Berkeley and jazz faculty at Ventura College. He has also worked in the L.A. film and TV industries.
Bevan’s classical works have been recorded on Albany Records; he has a recent jazz release of his on Meistero Music ’The Jazz Cave’. Other recordings have been released on Iris Records and Challenge (Netherlands).
He is a founding member of Improvisatory Minds, a composers collective in L.A. and NYC, and a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Rayburn Wright, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, Bill Dobbins, and Samuel Adler.