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Established in 1966, our pioneering Center for Music Therapy (CMT) uses guided music experiences to help individuals meet life's challenges.
Bop Stop
BOP STOP at The Music Settlement is Cleveland's premier listening room: an intimate, acoustically pristine performance venue with sweeping views of Lake Erie.
August 6 from 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Pianist Zach Bartholomew was born in Tallahassee, FL. In 2009 he graduated magna cum laude from Florida State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Music - jazz studies. During school and after graduating, Zach began making a living as a professional musician. He formed his trio while in school and began performing regularly in Tallahassee and touring across the country. In 2010, Zach led a jazz quartet which performed in Europe on Princess Cruise Lines during the fall of that year. In 2011, his trio won 1st place in the Salett Arts Center Jazz Trio Competition in Raleigh, NC. In 2012, he released his trio's debut album, Out of This Town, which has gone on to receive positive reviews in magazines and online forums by various authors and noted jazz critics.
Zach has toured regularly with his trio and has headlined at venues across the country such as Blues Alley (DC), Andy's Jazz Club (Chicago), Nighttown (Cleveland), BOP STOP (Cleveland), Twins Jazz Club (DC), Sidedoor Jazz Club (Old Lyme), Cliff Bells (Detroit), Jazz Kitchen (Indianapolis), Jazz Estate (Milwaukee), Velvet Note (Atlanta), WhyNot Jazz Room (NYC), B Sharps Jazz Club (Tallahassee) and many others. He has also performed at jazz festivals across the southeast, given jazz clinics and workshops at schools, and taught at the Florida State University summer jazz camps for middle school and high school.
In 2013, Zach was awarded a graduate assistantship at Florida State University where he taught jazz classes at the College of Music. Two years later, he earned the Master of Music in jazz performance in the Spring of 2015. Soon afterwards he was awarded a full tuition waiver from the University of Miami Frost School of Music to pursue a Doctorate of Musical Arts in jazz instrumental performance for the Fall of 2015. This year Zach finished in 3rd place in the highly acclaimed Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition. He currently resides in Miami, FL and is involved in a number of musical projects.
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