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Elegant M

                             

                                       Vintage vocal jazzzz...

Elegant M performs jazz favorites from the 1920's through the early 1950's.  Elegantly dressed in formal attire, the quartet includes voice, piano, bass and drums.    Elegant M also performs as a trio for more intimate venues.

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Elegant M (Quartet)
go If You Never Come Back to Me, by Antonio Carlos Jobim
go I’m Beginning to See the Light, by Duke Ellington

Elegant M Intimate (Trio)
go Someone to Watch Over Me, by George Gershwin

Upcoming Performances

Valentine's Day Dinner
Sunday, February 14, 2010

Eagles Lodge, Eugene, Oregon

Eugene Ballet Casino Night

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Valley River Inn, Eugene

Who is Elegant M?

Marieke SchuursMARIEKE SCHUURS
Marieke Schuurs grew up with vocal jazz and musical theater as the music in her family's household. A University-trained classical singer, she completed both her Bachelor of Music degree and her Master of Fine Arts degree in Vocal Performance at the University of California, Irvine. She lived in Los Angeles, was a soloist at several prominant churches, a choral conductor and a college faculty voice teacher. She moved to Eugene in 1996. She has performed with Eugene Opera, Willamette Concert Opera and Cascadia Concert Opera as well as at local concert venues. She teaches singers through her Eugene-based studio, Cantare Voice Studio.

Marieke started performing jazz in 2003, with local artists Paul Biondi, Gus Russell, Steve Larson and other Eugene-based jazz players. Her voice has been described as powerfully emotional, smoky and sexy. Marieke's style combines the lyricism of 30's and 40's jazz with a contemporary touch. Each performance is a musical dance with her audience.

Marieke has performed at LaVelle's Wine Bar, Oregon Wine Warehouse, Jo Federico's Restaurant, and the Oak St. Speakeasy in Eugene, as well as at Travelor's Cove Restaurant in Florence.

 

Allan StuartALLAN STUART
Allan Stuart, from Boulder, Colorado, comes from a musical and artistic family that included circus musicians, band leaders, symphonic performers and fine artists. He majored in trumpet performance at the University of Colorado, then studied composition with Cecil Effinger. Switching to piano as his main instrument, he did graduate work at the University of Wyoming with Werner Rose and and Charles Willman.

In 1988, Allan began a solo career, becoming a cocktail pianist and singer in five star resorts in Vail and Aspen, Colorado, as well as venues in Copenhagen, Quebec City and several cruise ships. During his years in Vail he shared the stage with many well known performers such as Ray Charles, Judy Collins, and John Denver. He also accompanied singers from the New York Met and the Central City Opera, and performed with ensembles from the New York Philharmonic. He continues to perform as a jazz and new classical soloist, and as an accompanist in Colorado and Oregon. He founded Green Shadow Music to publish his recorded compositions, placing many works with music libraries and production companies. He has released eight albums, signing with Eroica Classical Recordings in 2007 for distribution of his new classical piano works and orchestrated material.

Currently he works in a production studio in Oregon and his solar powered Lyftwyn studio near the head waters of the Rio Grande in Colorado. His musical partnership with Marieke Schuurs gives him the opportunity to use all of his musical skills to underscore and counterpoint her virtuosic interpretive singing abilities. www.ashcomm.com

 

Marieke Schuurs

 

Song List

Ain't Misbehavin'

All of Me

All or Nothing at All

All the things you are

Angel Eyes

April in Paris

Autumn Leaves

Autumn Serenade

Black Coffee

Black Orpheus

Bluesette

Blue Moon

Centerpiece

Cheek to Cheek

Come rain or come shine

Crazy he calls me

Cry me a River

Desafinado

Dindi

Don't get around much anymore

Falling in Love Again

Fly me to the Moon

A Foggy Day

Fools rush in

Four

Gee Baby, Ain't I good to you

God bless the Child

Honeysuckle Rose

How high the Moon

I wish you love

I'll remember April

I'm a fool to want you

I'm beginning to see the light

If you never come back to me

In a sentimental mood

It don't mean a thing

It's all right with me

Java Jive

Long ago and far away

La vie en Rose

Lullaby of Broadway

Lush Life

Mad about the Boy

Makin' Whoopie

Midnight sun

My foolish heart

My funny Valentine

My one and only love

Nature Boy

Night and Day

Peel me a grape

Prelude to a Kiss

'Round midnight

Someone to watch over me

Spring can really hang you up the most

Stairway to the Stars

These foolish things

They can't take that away from me

Triste

Twisted

When Sunny gets blue

Willow, weep for me

You'd better go now