Stephanie Trick

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Stephanie Trick
Born 1987 (age 36–37)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Genres Jazz
Instruments piano, pipe organ[1]

Stephanie Trick (born 1987 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American stride, ragtime and jazz pianist.

Biography

Trick began playing piano at the age of five.[2] Her interest outside of classical music began at the age of ten, when her piano teacher introduced her to ragtime.[3] She received her BA degree in music with honors from the University of Chicago in 2009.[2] Trick demonstrates piano performance and composition styles of stride, ragtime and jazz piano from the 1900s to the 1940s.[4] She emphasizes jazz standards, stride and boogie-woogie tunes with an accent on her specialty of Harlem stride.[5] [6] Trick and her husband, pianist Paolo Alderighi, reside in both St. Louis and Milan, Italy, his home town.

Discography

  • Piano Tricks (2005)
  • Ragtime Tricks (2006)
  • Hear That Rhythm! (2008)
  • Stephanie Trick LIVE (2010)
  • Something More (2011) - with Danny Coots (drums) and Jay Hungerford (bass)
  • Two For One (2012) - with Paolo Alderighi (piano)
  • Fourteen (2012) - with Lorraine Feather (vocal)
  • Sentimental Journey (2014) - with Paolo Alderighi (piano)

References

  1. Bach Prelude and Fugue (A Min.) on Rockefeller Chapel Organ on Stephanie Trick's YouTube Channel
  2. 2.0 2.1 Biography. Retrieved from http://stephanietrick.com/biography.htm.
  3. Bio at West Coast Ragtime Society website. Retrieved from http://www.westcoastragtime.com/bios/bio_trick_09.htm
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  6. "la jeune "polyvalente" du Harlem stride" (the Harlem stride young versatile), in 88 notes pour piano solo, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Neva Editions, 2015, p. 267. ISBN 978 2 3505 5192 0

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