Tuesday May 2, 2017, starting at 9:00 pm, in Aula Magna of the Ateneo Veneto in Venice (Campo San Fantin 1897), Romanian Cultural and Humanistic Research Insitute in Venice, in collaboration with Ateneo Veneto in Veneţia present teh musical project “Transylvanian Concert”, a jazz concert of Romanian-American pianist Lucian Ban and American violinist Mat Maneri, part of the 2017 edition of JAM–Jazz Area Metropolitana festival.
During the concert, the two musicians will play pieces from “Transylvanian Concert” album launched by ECM in 2013, as well as new compositions that will be recorded on the next album: Doine româneşti- Romanian traditional music; George Enescu's Prelude a l’Unison din Suita Orchestrală Nr. 1, Op 9 and Impresii din Copilărie, Op. 28, re-arranged in contemporary jazz style.
Reserve your free ticket at info@jazzareametropolitana.com. More information about JAM – Jazz Area Metropolitana: www.jazzareametropolitana.com
Lucian Ban was raised in a small village in northwest Transylvania, in “the region where composer Bela Bartók did his most extensive research and collecting of folk songs” and grew up listening to both traditional and classical music. He studied composition at the Bucharest Music Academy while simultaneously leading his own jazz groups, and notes that his approach to improvisation has been influenced by “the profound musical contributions of Romanian modern classical composers like Aurel Stroe, Anatol Vieru and of course Enesco.” Desire to get closer to the source of jazz brought him to the US, and his ensembles have included many of New York’s finest players.
Mat Maneri was born in Brooklyn. Important influences on his work – in addition to all the major forces of jazz – include baroque music (which he studied with with Juilliard String Quartet co-founder Robert Koff), Elliott Carter, and the 2nd Vienna School of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern which was of such central importance to his father, the late, great saxophonist, clarinettist, composer and educator Joe Maneri. Mat’s solo feature on “Transylvanian Concert”, the spiritual “Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen”, is a piece that was frequently performed by the Joe Maneri Quartet (as on the ECM album “In Full Cry”). Mat Maneri’s ECM discography includes his solo violin and viola recording “Trinity”, five albums with Joe Maneri in duo, trio and quartet formations, and two discs with Scottish singer, poet, harpist and guitarist Robin Williamson.
You could listen to the album "Transylvanian Concert" here.