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Who : Martin Spitznagel and Bryan Wright

When : Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 2:00 PM

Where : Jordan Kitts New Location
  8626 Lee Highway
  Suite 200
  Fairfax, VA 22031
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Ticket Prices : $13.00 Adults, $12.00 Seniors/Students
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Martin Spitznagel and Bryan Wright

Martin Spitznagel

At age 14, Martin Spitznagel won Calliope Media's nationwide "Crazy for Ragtime" competition, where he was awarded a Yamaha Disklavier piano for his arrangement of "Slap-Happy Rag."

In the years since, Martin has been an active composer and performer, studying with noted jazz pianist and pedagogue Tony Caramia and Grammy-nominated pianist Brian Holland. He was a featured youth performer at the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival in 1999, and returned to the festival in 2006 and 2007. He competed in the World Old Time Piano Playing Championship in 2007, winning the "Best New Rag" competition with the "Red Elephant Rag," and placing fourth in the player's division.

In October 2007, in association with Rivermont Records, Martin released his debut CD, "Tricky Fingers," which ragtime reviewer Jack Rummel hailed as "an impressive first recording." In addition to playing the piano, Martin is also an aspiring filmmaker, writer, and composer.

Bryan Wright

Bryan Wright, of Lynchburg, Virginia, is presently a graduate student pursuing a PhD in historical musicology at the University of Pittsburgh. Classically trained on piano from age 5, Bryan soon began studying the rags of Scott Joplin alongside the works of Beethoven, Schumann, Mozart, and others. As an undergraduate student at the College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA), Bryan and fellow ragtime pianist Rob Schwieger presented a popular series of annual ragtime concerts for the Williamsburg community and co-hosted a weekly 2-hour ragtime radio program, "Elite Syncopations" on WCWM-FM. Bryan has since been a featured performer at the Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival (Sedalia, MO), the JVC Jazz Festival (New York City), and most recently at the Oklahoma Centennial Ragtime Festival (Tulsa).

In 2004, Bryan released his first solo ragtime CD, "Syncopated Musings." Apart from playing ragtime, Bryan is an avid collector of vintage 78 rpm records and ragtime recordings in general. He puts these recordings to use on Elite Syncopations Radio, a 24-hour online ragtime radio station that he founded four years ago (www.ragtimeradio.org). Bryan is also host of "Soundstage," a radio program featuring a mix of ragtime, traditional jazz, dance bands, and big band swing (available online at www.bostonpete.com).

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