{"id":2190796,"date":"2025-12-08T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2190796"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:04:26","slug":"chris-white-explores-the-music-of-a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-on-wgn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chris-white-explores-the-music-of-a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving-on-wgn\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris White explores the music of \u2018A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving\u2019 on WGN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>About Chris White<\/h2>\n<p>Pianist Chris White hails from Toronto, Canada. After obtaining a BA in English from the University of Toronto, White decided to focus his studies entirely on music. In 1997 he attended Indiana University\u2019s prestigious Jacobs School of Music and pursued his master\u2019s degree in jazz studies, graduating with a Phi Kappa Lambda award (National Music Honors Society), and was elected to the Who\u2019s Who of American College Students in 1999. Gaining valuable experience in Indianapolis, he performed with The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, David Baker, Jamey Aebersold, and Oliver Nelson Jr. He has studied piano with Luke Gillespie, Lynne Arriale, Joanne Brackeen, Barry Harris, and Andy LaVerne. In August 2000, White was invited to perform in the Steans Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia hosted by James Moody, Rufus Reid, and David Baker.\u00a0In 2010 he completed his Doctor of Musical Arts in jazz performance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His two CDs\u2014\u201cYoung at Heart\u201d and \u201cTributaries\u201d\u2014are available through his website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.lakeforest.edu \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Chris White Pianist Chris White hails from Toronto, Canada. After obtaining a BA in English from the University of Toronto, White decided to focus his studies entirely on music. In 1997 he attended Indiana University\u2019s prestigious Jacobs School of Music and pursued his master\u2019s degree in jazz studies, graduating with a Phi Kappa Lambda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190797,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190796\/revisions\/2190797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}