Kate Skinner, Josh Skinner, Steve Lyman @ Ogden’s Union Station Foundation (Ogden: March 9)
Who: Ogden’s Union Station Foundation & WSU Alumni Jazz present
What: Ogden’s Own Kate Skinner
When: Wednesday, 9 March 7pm
Where: Grand Lobby, Ogden’s Union Station
Ogden’s Union Station Foundation & WSU Alumni Jazz presents Kate Skinner, piano, Josh Skinner, bass, and Steve Lyman drums Wednesday, 9 March, 7pm in the Grand Lobby of Ogden’s Union Station. This is a free, one-hour, all-ages event. Children are welcome as long as they do not disturb the performers or the audience.
As a pianist, Skinner is in demand in a variety of performance styles and has performed with the Downbeat-award-winning jazz band from the University of Northern Colorado, Jazz Lab Band I among many other established large and small jazz ensembles. Her work as a vocalist has seen much success among a wide audience of listeners across genres. Kate’s compositions and playing have won multiple awards, including a Downbeat award for Outstanding Vocal Performance and a Jazz Education Network award for composition.
2014 saw the release of two new albums that Kate was highly involved in, one of which is a straight-ahead jazz quartet called Divergent featuring her writing and performing. The second is Born to Wander a bass-guitar-voice trio with Erik Applegate and Steve Kovalcheck. The group is founded in jazz and explores interpreting classic folk and rock tunes along with jazz standards. Kate believes that the pursuit of honest and creative projects is the lifeblood of any artist and she strives to continually push herself and widen her scope to new influences and excitements.
Skinner is currently adjunct faculty in the jazz, theory, and voice departments at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. She is also a doctoral candidate in jazz studies at the University of Northern Colorado, studying orchestral conducting as a secondary area.