Join New York based Kevin Sun (saxophone) and Christian Li (piano) for a free hour-long masterclass at Berlin on Saturday, April 26 at 11 a.m. Intended for musicians of all skill levels.

Doors: 10:30 a.m.
Masterclass: 11 a.m. (60 min)

Tickets to the Kevin Sun Quartet, playing at Berlin the night before, are available here.

If you have any questions, please contact us at info@berlinmpls.com.

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Kevin Sun is a saxophonist and composer living in New York City. His music has been called “…intense, harmonically virtuosic and compositionally complex” by DownBeat magazine, and he has released seven albums as a leader (most recently, Quartets). Sun has also released five albums with the cooperative bands Mute, Earprint, and Great On Paper, and he appears on recordings led by Adam O’Farrill, Jacob Garchik, Juanma Trujillo, Dana Saul, and Xiongguan Zhang. In addition to performing in the United States, Sun has performed extensively in China and previously served as the artistic director of the Blue Note China Jazz Orchestra (BNCJO) from 2018 until 2020, leading performances of the BNCJO at the Blue Note Beijing with guest artists such as Rudresh Mahanthappa, Kris Davis, and Ingrid Jensen. He performs regularly at Lowlands Bar in Brooklyn, where he has been in residence since 2021 with support from Keyed Up!, a program of the nonprofit organization Jazz Generation. In 2021, Sun was a finalist for the Jerome Hill Foundation Artist Fellowship. He plays VENN reeds by D’Addario exclusively.

Christian Li is a pianist, composer, and arranger based in New York City. He plays with Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Sungazer, Childish Japes, Mike Bono, Shubh Saran, and others. Li is on faculty at Berklee College of Music.