Becker KB | Composer-Pianist Phoenix Award-Winning Composer-Pianist Nu-Classical: Modern concert music with the essence of jazz, rock, funk, Latin, and beyond. "For several decades now, the culture of the so called 'art music' genre, which, in most cases might more aptly be called 'academic music', has been to shun anything which might be construed as being accessible enough to be sold to the general public. Becker KB (composer and piano virtuoso) is a refreshing exception to this trend… [His music] displays a lot of theoretical, compositional, and performance mastery, while avoiding the common pitfall of being out of touch with what people want to hear." -Philip Cornell, Asterisked Music Journal "Mr. Becker's style is evidently steeped in multiple genres but is not mere eclecticism. Rather, his compositions are a clear distillation of very personal musical impulses...I think music like that [of Becker's] is worthwhile to the masses of listeners on the fringe of [classical] music because it challenges definitions and breaks down barriers between the music they are familiar with and that which they have never heard (most [classical] music)…[It] is undeniably evident that Becker KB is a uniquely talented musician." -Garrett Schumann, Sequenza21.com "Becker coined his mishmash of classical structures and popular inclinations 'nu-classical,' but not in the traditional sense of executing one style in another one's framework. Becker's nu-classical is a genuine blend that results in a sound that seems not to be associated exclusively to conventions of the past. Rather, it reinvents what it means to fuse these elements synergistically." -Joel Luks, CultureMap
