The first Taiwanese American to teach full-time at a music college, pianist Theresa Chen molds minds at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. She matriculated at National Taiwan Normal University, earned her doctorate of musical arts at the prestigious Eastman School of Music, studied with mentors as diverse as Gary Versace, Harold Danko, and Edoardo Bellotti, and performed with Dave Liebman, Ingrid Jensen, Allison Miller, Andre Hayward, and many others. Dedicated to studying women in jazz, applying jazz to Christian liturgies, and promoting jazz in Asia, Dr. Chen fronts a horn-heavy septet drawing on the music from her album Whispering to God. – Michael Toland
Tue., May 13, 8pm