Liz Queler

at: Rochester Art Center Grand Lobby

4/20/2006 6:30 PM

Coming in April, jazz standards and pop/folk singer-songwriter LIZ QUELER (www.lizqueler.com) on Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 6:30 PM in the Rochester Art Center Grand Lobby. Hailed by Billboard Magazine as ?a singer?s singer? Liz Queler continuously explores her diversity moving comfortably from theaters and coffeehouses to the stage of Carnegie Hall - from TV jingles to jazz standards. Known primarily as a singer/songwriter with three critically acclaimed CDs to date, Liz made her Carnegie Hall debut in the fall of 2002 as a soloist in Leonard Bernstein?s ?MASS?, a production that was repeated with the Dallas Symphony to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy the following year. A native New Yorker and the daughter of esteemed opera conductor Eve Queler, Liz grew up on the stages of Lincoln Center as a member of the NYC Opera Children's Chorus. After graduating from Tufts University, she attended Berklee College of Music to study jazz piano and guitar. Liz then followed her songwriting muse back to New York where she gained entrance as backup singer for widely respected Cliff Eberhardt. Liz has played many of the high profile festivals such as the Newport Folk Festival and the Kerrville Folk Festival, as well as top clubs such as the legendary Bottom Line in NYC and The Birchmere in Washington, DC. She?s also opened for many artists including Richie Havens, Cheryl Wheeler, Steve Forbert, Janis Ian and Guy Clark.