Called “the next rising star in the stride world,” classically trained pianist, STEPHANIE TRICK discovered, as a student at the University of Chicago, that she wanted to pursue stride and classic jazz styles professionally. In the few short years since she has been out of school, Stephanie “has come to practically dominate the stride piano field” (Jack Rummel, Ragtime Music Reviews). Louis Mazetier, a noted interpreter of this physically and technically demanding style of jazz piano from the twenties and thirties, writes in the Bulletin of the Hot Club of France that she has “won the esteem of specialists in the genre with wonderful interpretations of stride classics, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, and Don Lambert (which she learned by ear).” Just two years out of college, Stephanie has already released four CD’s and a DVD, and this fall she will start a tour featuring the music of James P. Johnson and other stride piano composers, set to words and sung by Grammy-nominated lyricist and vocalist Lorraine Feather. Stephanie was a student resident of International House where she will now be performing.
Website: http://stephanietrick.com/
