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20th Annual Rob Mathes Christmas Concert

THE 20TH ANNUAL ROB MATHES CHRISTMAS CONCERT

This year marks the 20th annual Rob Mathes Christmas Concert! And what
a celebration it will be -- Rob Mathes will perform with special guests,
original versions of holiday classics and Mathes favorites that everyone has
come to know and love.  Concerts are Friday, December 20, and
Saturday, December 21, 8 p.m., at The Performing Arts Center at Purchase
College
. Tickets are
$40, $50, and $75 and are available online at artscenter.org or by calling 914-251-6200.  Proceeds benefit Through The Eyes of Children:The Rwanda Project.



Rob Mathes will take
center stage with his band of New York City All-Star musicians and perform an
inimitable set of songs combining his original scores, many of which have been
recorded by artists such as Bonnie Raitt, Aaron Neville, Rascal Flatts and
Vanessa Williams, along with extraordinary arrangements of holiday classics. Several
of the numbers utilize a seven-piece horn section featuring players from the
recent Rolling Stones tour, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown's band, to name a
few. The arrangements evoke sounds as disparate as Duke Ellington, Prince,
Nelson Riddle and Bob Marley.  The 20th anniversary Rob Mathes
Christmas Concert will highlight special guests as well as performances by
Rob’s world-class band made up of Will Lee on bass, Billy Masters on guitar,
Joe Bonadio on drums, Rick Knutsen on keyboards, and vocalists James “D Train”
Williams, Ian Cron, Vanese Thomas and 90+ member full choir of Saints and
Friends. 

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Emmy
award-winning and Grammy-nominated Mathes has worked with every legendary name
in the music industry, arranging, producing, directing, recording and
performing with the likes of Sting, Sir Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Tony
Bennett, Bono and more. The past couple years have showcased Rob’s unique
talents as he worked on numerous collaborations with Sting, most recently
co-producing Sting’s latest record The Last
Ship
, Sting’s first original album in ten years; and working as the
music supervisor and orchestrator for Sting’s Broadway play, The Last Ship, opening the fall of 2014.
Rob just finished orchestrations for another set of songs by Bruce Springsteen
and has worked closely with Fall Out Boy, Panic At The Disco and the young
wunderkind Tori Kelly on his debut album. Lou Reed called Rob this year to
revisit some tracks from his classic record Transformer. Rob
was nominated again for an Emmy for musically directing the Kennedy Center Honors for the 10th year running, and his
score for the HBO film Thurgood was
also nominated for an Emmy. Rob is preparing to produce a record by the great
Blues and Rock Vocalist Beth Hart, and from a different world, his chamber
orchestration of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony (No. 2) has been released by
Mahler's publisher Universal Edition under the direction of the world famous
Mahler Scholar and Conductor Gilbert Kaplan. 



This holiday
season, in addition to Rob’s own Christmas Concert, Rob will be musically
directing the holiday specials, Christmas in
Washington,
 and the Kennedy
Center Honors,
the
award-winning music extravaganza that celebrates the careers of the most
influential musicians and performers of our time.

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Despite his busy
schedule, Rob always finds time to bring his unique musical magic home for the
holidays. Every year Rob’s concert benefits a charity, and this year will be no
exception, with all proceeds benefiting a non-profit close to Rob’s heart, Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project.



Tickets for the Rob Mathes Christmas
Concert are $40, $50 & $75 and are available at the Performing
Arts Center Box Office
artscenter.org or by calling 914-251-6200.  To
learn more about the non-profit concert beneficiary Through
the Eyes of Children: The
Rwanda
Project
, visit the website rwandaproject.org.  To
learn more about Rob Mathes and his annual Christmas Concert, visit www.robmathes.com.



 



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