($15-$20 | 4:30pm matinee) Power duo Rob Scheps and Glen Moore join us for a special matinee. Not to be missed!

**Glen Moore**

As a founding member of the pioneering chamber jazz group, Oregon, Glen Moore helped redefine jazz in the late twentieth century. His love for the European symphonic tradition began as a child in Milwaukie, Oregon, where he was trained on both bass and piano. He performed around the state in his teens as a member of The Young Oregonians (which also included saxophonist Jim Pepper).

A bassist and composer of extraordinary scope, Moore’s work combines the spontaneous, physical verve of jazz with the abstract dissonance of modern classical music. He has written music not only for Oregon but also for vocalist Nancy King (a frequent collaborator since the early 1960s) and symphony orchestras (the Philadelphia Symphony debuted his “Firebat Suite” in 1985). He also composed music for a production of Shakespeare’s Henry VI at New York’s Joseph Papp Theater and for two solo bass albums. As a performer, Moore’s work has ranged from appearances with poets to tours with ensembles led by Celtic singer Loreena McKinnet and oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil.

A member of the Jazz Society of Oregon’s Hall of Fame, Moore made an impact on the local music scene as a teacher at Marylhurst College and Portland State University and in private lessons. Animated by a passion for discovery, his lively, inventive, humorous, and complex music has influenced musicians locally and around the world.

Moore provided the best summary of his work in a 2006 interview: “Using the technique of the classical guitar in order to expand the vocabulary of pizzicato bass is probably the thing I’ve spent most of my life learning and teaching.” For more than thirty years, he has played a Klotz bass fiddle crafted in the Tyrol in about 1715, on which he has made extensive use of a unique tuning with both a low and high C string. Outside the group Oregon, Moore has appeared on 28 albums with musicians such as David Friesen, Carla Bley, and Jerry Hahn. He has written music for and arranged lyrics by his wife, Samantha Moore, for three CDs with Nancy King.

**Rob Scheps**

Rob Scheps began studying the tenor saxophone at age nine. He grew up on Long Island, New York. After graduating high school, he enrolled in the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music. There he received a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies with Honors in Performance.​

While living in the Boston area, Rob formed and led his own groups, including the True Colors Big Band. In 1988 he moved to New York, where he formed the Rob Scheps Core-tet and the Bartokking Heads, firmly establishing himself on the jazz scene.

Not content to limit himself, Rob continued to take on new challenges. He formed new bands on both coasts. He served as a faculty member at the Mannes College of Music. He worked with contemporary music ensembles. All while performing with some of the most noted and influential big bands of our age, such as the Gil Evans Orchestra and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.

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