Songs For Our Fathers (aka Wanger-Williams Salon Concert #8)

Songs For Our Fathers

Come join us for a rollicking afternoon filled with musical gems inspired by our fathers. This concert will be hosted at the elegant Eric Wanger Residence where melodies speak louder than words. There will be musical selections from the classical and jazz repertoire, many with a Brazilian twist, and fresh original compositios from Eric's oeuvre to celebrate the legacy and love of our fathers through music. Don't miss this unique opportunity to connect with tradition in a truly special setting. Fathers, godfathers, or father figures receive complimentary tickets!

Featuring Eric Wanger on piano, Nora Williams on Violin/Viola and Typhanie Monique on vocals with her jazz trio, including JoAnn Daugherty on piano, John Tate on bass and Ryan Bennet on drums. This will be one of Typhanie's last live performances in Chicago before she decamps to her new position at Arizona State University as Clinical Associate Professor of Popular Music on Voice.

Come socialize, enjoy food and drink, and reflect on the ways that postive masculine energy helps us move through life with power and effectiveness!

Eric Wanger, piano and composer

Still glowing from his Carnegie Hall debut performance for a Holocaust Remembrance concert, Eric Wanger is currently occupied with composing and performing music. He has studied piano, clarinet, saxophone, and flute, and has played keyboards and woodwinds in a variety of jazz, rock, and classical settings. A Chicago native, Eric received a Mathematics degree from the University of Illinois, and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School. He played lead tenor saxophone in the University of Illinois Jazz Band under Ray Sasaki. His interests include the use of computers in the composition, performance, and production of both traditional acoustic and fully electronic music.

Nora Williams, viola and violin

Nora Williams is the Artistic Director at Ossia Musical Forum, executive producer of the short dance film Prohairesis, premiering in 2024, founder and violist with the contemporary string quartet, Red Riding Hood, guest soloist with the South Loop Symphony, and past principal viola, soloist with the Bach and Beyond Chamber Orchestra and past principal viola with the Highland Park Strings. Nora' s latest projects include co-producing a chamber music series at The Golden Triangle antique shop and booking live chamber music all over Chicago. She is a native of the San Francisco Bay area and received a bachelor’s degree in music from Stanford University and continued with two years of graduate study at Indiana University.

Typhanie Monique, vocals

Typhanie Monique is a performer, educator and recording artist whose four critically acclaimed, independently produced albums have captured the ears of Chicago Tribune jazz critic Howard Reich and thousands of dedicated fans. She has shared the stage with jazz’s elite, including Joe Lovano, Chris Potter,The Manhattan Transfer and Mavis Staples to name a few. She has enthralled audiences and brought enthusiastic crowds to their feet at major outdoor festivals like the Chicago Jazz Festival, Vogue Design Festival in Moscow, Russia, SummerFest, Taste of Chicago, Isthmus Jazz Festival and Third Ward Jazz Festival.

An adjunct professor since 2012, Typhanie mentors the next generation in voice science, contemporary singing styles and techniques and artist development. She embodies a whole self approach to body, mind, spirit development.

JoAnn Daugherty, piano

Pianist, conductor, musical director, recording artist, composer and arranger Jo Ann Daugherty loves making all kinds of music. She recently returned to Chicago after touring the US as Music Director/Conductor of SIX the Musical first national tour.

Her work in the jazz world has included performing at clubs and festivals throughout the US including the Chicago Jazz Festival, Dizzy’s Club and Smoke in NYC, Satchmo Fest in New Orleans, Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai, and Havana Jazz Festival in Cuba. As a solo artist, her jazz trio album Bring Joy earned a 4-star review from Downbeat Magazine (January 2017) and was listed as one of their “Best Albums of 2017.” Her larger band, Better Together, performs regularly at Winter’s Jazz Club in Chicago, presenting shows of the music of Al Jarreau, Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, and so much more.

Her work as a music director and keyboardist has led to conducting and playing with touring Broadway productions (SIX, Jersey Boys, Motown the Musical and more); arranging, directing, and performing concert specials for PBS with Under the Streetlamp; playing productions with Lyric Opera of Chicago (Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story); music-supervising and playing on the orchestral soundtrack of the wildlife documentary To The Ends of the Earth; and music-directing and playing on tour with An Unforgettable Nat King Cole Christmas.

John Tate, bass

A first-call accompanist in Chicago, John Tate has played with any number of important artists including Matt Wilson, Marquis Hill, Ron Miles, Von and George Freeman, Ben Monder, Jeff Parker, John Chin, Sacha Perry, Bill Carrothers, Victor Goines, Caroline Davis and Billy Kaye. He also performs and records with experimental drummer-composer Charles Rumback, appearing on the 2015 duo album Daylight Savings and the 2017 trio efforts Threes and Tag Book.

As those musicians will attest, the downstate Illinois native has lived up to his primary aim of "making who I'm playing with sound better." In the fall of 2003, Tate began attending Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. He studied with jazz bassists Kelly Sill and Marlene Rosenberg, both prolific accompanists, and classical bassist John Floeter.

In 2011, he moved to New York to study at the Juilliard School. That's where his life changed under the tutorship of bassist Ron Carter. Tate took private lessons with Carter and played in an ongoing band under Carter's direction. As a member of the über-select Juilliard Jazz Artist Diploma band, Tate toured the world, performing and teaching in eight countries. He recorded with trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and, in a concert at Alice Tully Hall honoring Carter on his 75th birthday, played in a 12-member bass choir including Christian McBride and Buster Williams.

Co-sponsored by the Stanford Club of Chicago