These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut for Scott Chasolen.

Scott Chasolen is a New York City-based pianist/keyboardist, songwriter, composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and music producer. His music career began when he was a teenager playing clubs in New York City. By his early 20s he was working toward a degree in jazz performance at The New School while creating, recording, and touring relentlessly with his landmark jazz/funk group ulu. Between 1998 and 2003 ulu played over a thousand shows and released 4 albums: ulu (1998), Live at the Wetlands (2000), What’s the Deal (2001) and Nerve (2003). Along the way, ulu shared the stage with John Scofield, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, De La Soul, the Mickey Hart Band, Moe., Soulive, and Jazz Is Dead, to name a few.

For over 15 years Chasolen has been performing across the country and around the world as the keyboardist and backing vocalist for the Pink Floyd tribute band, The Machine. On stage, his live rig includes a Minimoog Voyager, Rhodes electric piano, Hohner Clavinet and a Hammond organ that he plays through a Leslie cabinet.

Chasolen also plays with the Chicago tribute band, Beginnings, yacht rock specialists AM Gold, and psychedelic jammers The Englishtown Project, among many others…

Since 2003, Chasolen has released seven albums of original music as a singer/songwriter: Solitude Speaks (2003), Woven (2005), Magnify (2007), Fracture (2010), Portrait (2013), Living in Limbo (2019), and Just Another Dream (2023).