Denman Maroney

Denman Maroney (* 1949 ) is an American improvisation musician ( piano ) and composer .

Live and act

Maroney studied after high school at Bennington College in Vermont (1969-71), Williams College (1971) and the California Institute of the Arts (1972-74). His teachers included Bill Dixon , Jimmy Garrison , James Tenney , John Bergamo , Ingram Marshall, and Morton Subotnick . He experimented with techniques for playing the piano strings and the resonance body with various objects, called "hyperpiano". In the early 1990s he worked in the Tambastics formation with Robert Dick , Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway . Maroney has received numerous awards and grants, including the National Endowment for the Arts , Meet the Composer, and the New York State Council for the Arts . Over the course of his career he has played with musicians such as Mat Maneri , Leroy Jenkins , Mark Dresser, Ned Rothenberg , Dave Ballou , Earl Howard , Dave Douglas , Gerry Hemingway, Kevin Norton , Tim Berne , Dominic Lash and Min Xiao-Fen .

Tambastics ( Muaic & Arts , 1992)
Hyperpieno (1998) solo
Fire Song (Erstwhile, 1999) with Earl Howard
Billabong (Potlatch, 2000) with Hans Tammen
Ned Rothenberg & Denman Maroney - Tools of the Trade ( CIMP , 2001)
Mark Dresser / Denman Maroney - Duologues (Les Disques Victo, 2001)
Times Changes ( Cryptogramophone Records , 2005) with Mark Dresser, Michael Sarin
Mat Maneri / Denman Maroney - Distich (Nuscope Recordings, 2007)
Double Zero (Porter Records, 2011)
Denman Maroney / James Ilgenfritz / Angelika Niescier / Andrew Drury : Mind Games (OutNow, 2012)

personal data
SURNAME	Maroney, Denman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH	1949