Howard Levy — two-time Grammy Award Winner (Pop Music
Performance and Instrumental Composition) — is an acknowledged
master of the diatonic harmonica, a superb pianist, innovative
composer, educator and producer. At the age of 19, he
discovered how to play the diatonic harmonica as a fully
chromatic instrument by developing techniques on it that had
never existed before. This enabled Howard to take the harmonica
out of its usual role as a Folk and Blues instrument, and into
the worlds of Jazz, Classical, Middle Eastern music, and
more. His discovery unlocked infinite possibilities for
the harmonica world.
Program
To be announced from the stage.
Free
This Shinkoskey Noon Concert is made possible with support
from the Joy S. Shinkoskey Series of Noon Concert Endowment.
Joy S. Shinkoskey was the mother of Deborah Pinkerton and
mother-in-law to Bret Hewitt. They established an endowment to
support noon concerts and musical performances in the UC Davis
Department of Music.
Joy S. Shinkoskey (Pinkerton)
1923–1999
Mother of four children, including Deborah Pinkerton, Joy
Shinkoskey was in her younger years a model and played the
piano which is where she developed her love of music, playing
Beethoven piano works in the Spokane Music Festival, 1940, and
throughout her life.
