“One of the most gifted composers and arrangers in the rock genre”
(Classic Rock Magazine), Kip Winger has announced a New Zealand tour
date for his I’ll Be Down tour this March! The American rock legend,
who previously as a member of Alice Cooper’s band, will perform one
concert at Galatos in Auckland on Friday, March 6. Tickets for all
shows go on sale at 1pm Wednesday, January 22. My Live Nation members
may also secure tickets first during the pre-sale beginning 12pm
Tuesday, January 21 until 12pm Wednesday, January 22. As the lead
singer and bassist of the band bearing his last name, Kip Winger rode
the '80s pop-metal explosion to short-lived stardom, before beginning
a solo career in the late '90s. Early in his career, Kip toured as a
bass player with rock legend Alice Cooper, moving on to perform and
record with Alan Parsons (as the lead singer for Alan Parsons’ Live
Project), Roger Daltrey, and Bob Dylan. After establishing his hugely
successful, eponymous band — which sold millions of albums and
charted six Top‐40 radio singles — Kip started writing and
producing music without limits. It is in Kip's solo work (“This
Conversation seems like a Dream”, “Songs from the Ocean Floor”,
“From the Moon to the Sun”) that he has been able to exercise the
breadth of his talents as a composer. Kip is also an accomplished
composer, scoring music for orchestral and ballet performances. His
works have been commissioned and performed by the Nashville Symphony
Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, the Sun River Music
Festival in Oregon, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and the
Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra in Greece. His score for the
ballet “Ghosts”, written for string orchestra, piano and harp, is
one of the most celebrated contemporary ballet scores in performance
today. Championed by the world‐renowned and Tony‐award‐winning
choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, ‘Ghosts’ was part of the San
Francisco Ballet’s repertoire from 2010 to 2014, with performances
at Manhattan’s Lincoln Center, London’s Sadler’s Wells, and the
Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. In 2010, “Ghosts” was nominated
for the Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in
Music/Sound/Text. In 2016, Kip recorded “Winger: Conversations with
Nijinsky” with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. The album, which
included music from “Ghosts”, reached #1 on Billboard’s
Traditional Classical Chart and was nominated for a Grammy in 2017 for
Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Tamara Nijinsky said at the
opening performance of “Conversations with Nijinsky”, “Kip
Winger has captured my father’s heart and soul… and reminds us of
my father’s genius with his own work”. His band, Winger, continues
to record and tour and their last album “Better Days Comin”
entered at #85 on the Billboard Rock chart. The band is currently in
the process of writing their new album, which is expected to be
released in 2020. Kip Winger also made his theatrical composing debut
with “Get Jack, A Musical Thriller”, which is currently on
development stage and was presented in concert in New York in October
2019. He is currently composing his “Symphony No.1”, commissioned
by the Nashville Symphony, which will be premiered in September 2020.
Get up close and personal with Kip Winger, performing acoustic
versions of his amazing catalogue of songs from “Winger” and his
own very successful solo career.
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