February Pops: Valentine Jazz

Guest Artist

PAUL VORNHAGEN, jazz instrumentalist

All ASO guest artists appear through the generosity of the Maurice and Dorothy Stubnitz Foundation Guest Artist Fund.

Winner of three Detroit Music Awards for Best Jazz Reeds, Best Instrumentalist and TDWR (Talent Deserving Wider Recognition), Paul Vornhagen has performed with his own jazz quartet for 25 years traveling to San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Hawaii and Paris, France.

Paul Vornhagen has appeared on the Ed Love Program and Jazz Alive at WDET-FM. In February 2004, Paul visited Havana, Cuba, where he performed as a guest artist with members of the Buena Vista Social Club, Cubanismo and Irakere at jazz clubs and also was honored to perform at Ibrahim Ferrer’s 78th birthday party.

 

Jazz Festival credits for Vornhagen’s quartet include the Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival, Ann Arbor Jazz and Blues Fest, Birmingham Arts Fair, The Lansing Jazz Festival, and The Michigan Jazz Fest.

Paul has released six critically acclaimed CDs.