David Arner

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David Arner (born November 4, 1951 ) is an American jazz pianist (also percussion, harpsichord), composer and university professor .

Life

Arner studied at Oberlin College ; at the piano taught him Edna Golandsky , Dave Burrell , Dwike Mitchell on Balaphon Yaya Diallo . He worked with Meredith Monk in New York in the 1970s ; He also appeared as a flautist and percussionist in a duo with the lyricist Jackson Mac Low . During this time he began working with the lyric poet Charles Stein, which led to the Prometheus Project (1991–2004). a. was performed at the Knitting Factory in 1996. Inspired by his ornithological observations and the music of Olivier Messiaen , he composed Abstract Songs for Birds , which he performed from 2001. In 2007 he wrote the composition American Goldfinch , which he performed with Pauline Oliveros and Susie Ibarra . In 2009 he presented the solo work Birds of Central Park at Club The Stone .

Arner worked with a number of choreographers , such as Aileen Passloff, Albert Reid, Jeanette Leentvaar, Susan Osberg, Elaine Colandrea and Noemie LaFrance. He also wrote and played new music for silent films such as The Last Man , The Wind , Peter Pan and The General . From 2003 to 2007 he hosted the New Directions in Jazz and New Vanguard Series concert series in Kingston (New York) . In 1980 he received the NEA Jazz Fellowship Award, as well as grants from the NYFA and the Meet the Composer Performance Fund . Arner was an Assistant Professor at Bard College and currently teaches as an Adjunct Professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Bard College. In the field of jazz Arner took part in seven recording sessions between 1997 and 2007; Recordings were made a. in a trio with Michael Bisio and Jay Rosen as well as with the Joe Giardullo Open Ensemble. In 2009 he recorded the Spontaneous Suite for Two Pianos ( RogueArt ) as a duo with Connie Crothers .

Discographic notes

  • Solo piano (Dogstar, 2002)
  • Live from the Center (Dogstar, 2005)
  • David Arner Trio: Out / In the Open ( Not Two Records , 2009), with Michael Bisio, Jay Rosen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography
personal data
SURNAME Arner, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician, university professor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 4th 1951