Danny Fisher-Lochhead Large Ensemble Plays at COA

Press release

BAR HARBOR—The Danny Fisher-Lochhead Large Ensemble brings its dynamic fusion of jazz and contemporary composition to College of the Atlantic on Tuesday, May 13. The show takes place at the Thomas S. Gates, Jr. Community Center at 6:30 p.m., tickets at the door are $10 for the general public.

Saxophonist/composer Danny Fisher-Lochhead grew up in a musical family, and started playing the cello before eventually switching to the saxophone. After he graduated from the University of Michigan, he moved back to New York City and continued making music there. While living in New York he performed extensively—with Brass Magic, The Will Mason Sextet, Lora-Faye Whelan, Rose Hips and Ships, Harvey Eyeballs, Ancient Sky, Adam Schatz, and many others, and started performing and recording his own large-scale compositions with The Danny Fisher-Lochhead Large Ensemble.

Fisher-Lochhead has released five records as a leader or co-leader — Tools of the Abstract, Piano Songs, Wake The Baby Up, On Ceremony, and Piano Songs 2 on Fishkill Records, a record label he started with his friend and collaborator Ross Gallagher. Fisher-Lochhead lives in Bar Harbor.