Current Projects
The Atonal Guitar Duo
//with// Jared DavisBased in Central Texas, a contemporary improvisation focused and serialist minded electric guitar duo consisting of Kevin Metzger on guitar and guitarist/composer Jared Davis create original music blending structured form and improvisation while utilizing the practice of strict intervallic sets. The duo plans to record a full album of their compositions in 2024, collaborate on a live recording session with San Antonio's URBAN-15 this upcoming March, and have been recent guest lecturers/artists at Texas State University’s School of Music.
The Bachian Swing Consort
Through the awarding of a 2023 Live Music Fund Event Program Grant from the City of Austin, TX Kevin presented a two night live album-recording and concert event on Friday January 19th and Saturday January 20th at 8PM. Seeking to combine the worlds of Johann Sebastian Bach’s music and improvisation a jazz-organ trio made up of Kevin Metzger on guitar, R. Aaron Walters on drums, and Rashaan Allwood on organ/synth will pair 3 of Bach’s Trio Sonatas with 3 movements of free group-improv, and to be complimented by historically informed, but jazz-minded, interpretations of arias from Bach’s sacred works featuring vocalists Dr. Rebekah Smelzer-Staley and Dr. Page Stephens. The concerts are live-album recording sessions and will be released as a future full-length album and accompanying film
