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Exclusively for Our Friends: An Oscar Peterson Centennial Concert

A 2025 Madison Jazz Festival Event

Madison Jazz Festival 2025, Arts + Literature Laboratory, and Madison Music Collective's DIG JAZZ series present Exclusively for Our Friends: An Oscar Peterson Centennial Concert on Friday, June 13, 2025 at 7:30pm.  

Pianists Johannes Wallmann, Pamela York, and Dan Cavanagh will pay tribute to the life, career, and legacy of jazz legend Oscar Peterson (1925–2007), with special guests Peter Dominguez (bass), Ben Dameron (guitar), Dave Bayles (drums).

The program will begin with a short abstract film, Begone Dull Care (Canada, 1949, 7 minutes) in which animators Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart visualize music by the Oscar Peterson Trio. 

Johannes Wallmann

Pianist and composer Johannes Wallmann has recorded ten critically acclaimed albums as a leader and co-leads the band Precarious Towers. His latest album as leader was named a “Best of 2022 Album” by Something Else! and a “Best of Bandcamp, June 2022” album; Milwaukee’s Shepherd Express wrote: “Wallmann rises to precipitous heights in his 10th album, Precarious Towers, proving his ability to create a concept album, with extra-musical aspects streaming gracefully throughout.” DownBeat magazine has called Wallmann “a remarkable pianist and composer [whose] evocative compositions are brimming with melodic cogency and rhythmic pull,” has described his playing “confident, muscular and elegant,” and  named his previous recording, Elegy for an Undiscovered Species, a “Best of 2021” album. 

Wallmann is the inaugural holder of the Peterson Chair in Jazz Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to moving to... Read More

Peter Dominguez Bassist

Peter Dominguez

Peter Dominguez grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin participating in the Music for Youth Orchestras, and performing with his father, pianist and singer Frank DeMiles. His teachers included Willard Feldman and Clyde Russell. Peter went on to study with Roger Ruggeri and Richard Davis at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he earned his baccalaureate and masters degrees with a teaching assistantship 1980-82.

In 1981 he was the first recipient of the Milton J. Hinton scholarship competition award.  A teaching assistantship and doctoral studies with Dr. Lucas Drew at the University of Miami, Coral Gables followed in 1982-84. Eventually securing positions in both the Florida Philharmonic and Michigan State University, Peter chose MSU, served as Professor of Double Bass and Jazz Studies 1984-96, and was instrumental in developing their Jazz Studies program.  During his Michigan years, he continued studies with Robert Gladstone and performed with the Detroit Symphony.

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with additional funds from the Endres Manufacturing Company Foundation, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation.

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