Michael Echaniz

@ The Stowaway

Sunday February 9, 2025

08:00 PM - 10:30 pm

Join us Sunday, February 9th in the underground lounge of The Stowaway for an intimate performance of emotive yet exciting west-coast piano jazz.

Michael Echaniz is one of the brightest musicians, composers, and artists emerging from the West Coast. A pianist since five, Michael has studied music at California Jazz Conservatory (B.M.), and CalArts (MFA). Michael is an avid performer, playing and recording alongside internationally renowned artists and pillars of the Bay Area music scene such as Jeff Denson, Romain Pilon, Wu Man, Gerald Cleaver, Paul McCandless, Scott Amendola, Ishmael Reed, Erik Jekabson, Dillon Vado, Alan Hall, Steve Lugerner, and Friction Quartet.

On September 8th, 2023, Michael released Seven Shades of Violet (Rebiralost), an ambitious, virtuosic, symmetrical concept album of original compositions and arrangements on Ridgeway Records, supported by InterMusic SF’s 2020 Musical Grant Program and New Music USA’s Creator Development Fund in 2022-23. The debut has received wide critical acclaim, including a coveted 4-star review in DownBeat, earning a place in the publication’s Best Albums of 2023 list. Michael’s forward-thinking original music embraces rhythmic complexity, haunting melodicism, fluidity between improvisation and through-composition, influence from disparate styles of classical, world, and pop music, and deep emotional connection.

21+

Cover: $22.66

Cover Notes: $20 ADV | $23 DOOR