Concert: Ben Folds and a Piano
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Organizations: Ben Folds
Date: Friday, June 8, 2018
Time: 8:30 - 10:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:

Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents the concert "Ben Folds and a Piano" on Friday, June 8, 2018.

In this solo concert program, Ben Folds delivers high-energy rock using the intimacy of just a piano.

Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation.

He’s created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and collaborative records with artists from Sara Bareilles and Regina Spektor, to William Shatner. His last album was a blend of pop songs and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra that soared to #1 on both the Billboard classical and classical crossover charts.

For over a decade he’s performed with some of the world’s greatest symphony orchestras, and in 2017 was named as the first ever Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.

Folds continues to perform with symphonies and also recently returned to solo touring around the globe reminiscent of his earliest years, delivering a high energy rock performance using the intimacy of just a piano.

He is also no stranger to television, having been featured for five seasons as a judge on NBC's critically-acclaimed a capella show "The Sing Off." He continues to appear in cameo roles on cable and network TV shows from "Billions," to "You're The Worst" and "Community," and recently composed the soundtrack for the Netflix show “Handsome.”

An avid photographer, Folds is a member of the prestigious Sony Artisans of Imagery, completed an assignment in 2017 as a photo editor for National Geographic, and was recently featured in a mini-documentary by the Kennedy Center's Digital Project on his photographic work.

Links:

• https://www.benfolds.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/BenFolds
• https://www.twitter.com/benfolds
• https://www.youtube.com/user/benfoldsTV/videos
• https://www.instagram.com/murkanpianist/

Ticket sales begin on April 10, 2018.

Tickets can be purchased online, in person at the Moss Arts Center Box Office Monday-Friday from 10 am - 5:30 pm and Saturday 10 am - 4 pm and by phone at 540-231-5300.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/ben-folds.html.

Presented in celebration of Virginia Tech's Alumni Reunion Weekend.

For more information, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/ben-folds.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt.