InConcert - January 2020

POPS
respected lead singer Kelly Hansen, multiinstrumentalist
Tom Gimbel, Dokken bassist
Jeff Pilson, Michael Bluestein on keyboards,
guitarist Bruce Watson and Chris Frazier on
drums.
Following a brief hiatus in 2002, the band
returned to the Billboard charts with both
the 2005 release of their live Greatest Hits
album, Extended Versions, and 2009’s Can’t
Slow Down. That was followed by the three-disc
set Feels Like the First Time, which included
an acoustic disc with intimate and unique
reinterpretations of many Foreigner classics,
studio re-records by the new lineup, and a live
performance DVD.
A major milestone came in October 2016,
when Foreigner performed for the first time
at New York’s iconic Carnegie Hall, which
highlighted the band’s relationship with the
GRAMMY® Museum’s initiative to promote
music education in our nation’s schools. For
Foreigner’s 40th anniversary in 2017, Warner
Music Group released the double CD set 40,
which includes 40 songs recorded between
1977 and 2017 and two new tracks.
In April 2018, Foreigner topped the
Billboard Classic Album Charts for the first
time with a live recording of the group’s firstever
orchestral shows in Lucerne, Switzerland,
and the band went on to headline orchestral
shows in the U.S., Europe, Australia and New
Zealand, including sold-out appearances at
London’s Royal Albert Hall and the iconic
Sydney Opera House.
Double Vision: Then & Now, a DVD/CD
package that celebrates the 40th anniversary of
Foreigner’s iconic second album, was released
in November 2019 and features a stunning
reunion concert that brings together the
current and original band members playing
all the hits at the top of their game.
ERNST
VAN TIEL
conductor
Dutchman Ernst van
Tiel has compiled
an extensive career
in classical, jazz and film music, and has
led ensembles such as the Rotterdam
Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra,
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre
National de Lyon, Moscow State Symphony
Orchestra and Russian National Orchestra.
Van Tiel studied conducting with Franco
Ferrara, Gary Bertini, Jean Fournet and Lucas
Vis, and he was also an assistant to Valery
Gergiev, who invited him to conduct Elektra,
Lucia di Lammermoor, Rigoletto and other
operas at the Mariinsky Theatre.
With the Brussels Philharmonic, van Tiel
recorded the original score for Ludovic Bource’s
film The Artist, which won five Academy Awards
and three Golden Globes and is now touring
internationally with a live orchestra under
his direction. A specialist in film concerts, he
has also conducted performances of movie
favorites such as Alexander Nevsky, Star Wars,
Vertigo and Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
as well as several Harry Potter films.
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