Harris Eisenstadt

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Harris Eisenstadt, 2014

Harris Eisenstadt (* 1975 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian jazz drummer, percussionist, composer and band leader. The New Yorker praises its "deep and resilient view of improvised music in ensembles that are both small and extensive".

Live and act

With Larry Ochs ' The Fictive Five , 2019

Eisenstadt earned a bachelor's degree in literature and music from Colby College (1998) and a master's degree in African-American improvisational music on a scholarship from the California Institute of the Arts . He studied drums with Barry Altschul , Gerry Hemingway , Joe LaBarbera and Joe Porcaro , African music with Beatrice Ladzekpo , Jalamang Camara , Mamady Danfa and Malick Faye , harmony with Paul Caputo and composition with Wadada Leo Smith . With the saxophonist and composer Jason Mears , Eisenstadt founded the Ahimsa Orchestra and the eleven-member Creative Orchestra of Los Angeles (KOLA). With the Ahimsa Orchestra he premiered his three-part suite Non-Violence in Brooklyn in 2003 and the Variations for Creative Orchestra in 2004 . For KOLA he wrote the pieces Kola 1 and Kola 2 , both of which premiered in 2004.

Eisenstadt also directs two other ensembles: Canada Day (with Matt Bauder , Nate Wooley , Chris Dingman and Eivind Opsvik ) and Guewel (with Taylor Ho Bynum , Nate Wooley, Mark Taylor and Josh Sinton ). The album Canada Day was released in 2009. He also works in a duo with the improvising bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck , who is his wife, in trios with Achim Kaufmann and Mark Dresser and with Jeb Bishop and Jason Roebke, and in the Convergence Quartet with Taylor Ho Bynum, Alexander Hawkins and Dominic Lash .

With Wadada Leo Smith he worked on the film The Wedding Crashers (2005), in dance projects he worked with the Urban Bushwomen in New York City, with the Butoh dancer Oguri and the CalArts Dance department . As a musician, he was a member of the ensemble of the Macbeth adaptation by Stephen Dillane (2004-06) and played in the world premiere of Anne LeBaron's opera Wet at REDCAT in 2005 in Los Angeles.

Eisenstadt was u. a. with the Durfee Foundation Grant (2004), the American Composers Forum Subito Grant (2004 and 2005) and the Meet the Composer Global Connections Grant (2006) and was composer in residence at the Sonic Courage Festival of SOCAN in 2006 . Eisenstadt's first orchestral work “Palimpsest” was premiered by the American Composers Orchestra (2011). His second orchestral piece "Four Songs" was commissioned by the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra (2013). Eisenstadt's first string quartet “Whatever Will Happen, That Will Also Be” was recorded by the Mivos Quartet (2015). It was premiered as part of Eisenstadt's curatorial work with a twelve-person ensemble at The Stone in New York in 2015 and was released in 2017 on the No Business label . His composition project “Poschiavo 50” (2017), a collection of fifty compositions for ensembles of all sizes, has been performed in Switzerland, Brazil, Cuba, New York (2018 in The Stone ) and Canada.

He has given workshops at Arizona State University , Mills College , the College of Santa Fe and the University of California, San Diego , the jazz education program Rhythm Is Our Business at Lincoln Center , and the Henry Mancini Institute summer workshops for students in Los Angeles. In 2020 Eisenstadt closed the first chapter of the ongoing music and film project entitled We Are All Worthy of One Another , a collaboration with the Cuban artist collective El Almacén in Matanzas, in which over 30 Cuban folk and classical musicians and crew members took part. Eisenstadt also contributed to radio programs, articles and podcasts that appeared in National Public Radio , Public Radio International, Afropop Worldwide and in John Zorn ’s Arcana .

Eisenstadt's recordings are regularly included in the critics 'best lists, and in recent years he has been included in the Rising Star Percussion and Arranger categories of the Down Beat International Critics' Poll. His music appeared since 2000 a. a. on the labels Songlines, Clean Feed, Astral Spirits and No Business Records . With more than sixty recordings, he presented more than twenty as a director of his own projects.

Discography

Compositions

  • Non-Violence , 2003
  • Kola 1 , 2004
  • Kola 2 , 2004
  • Variations for Creative Orchestra , 2004
  • Relief , 2005
  • What We Were Told , 2006
  • Without Roots for chamber orchestra, 2006
  • Canada Day III , 2012

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ A b Harris Eisenstadt. All About Jazz, May 3, 2020, accessed May 11, 2020 .
  2. ^ The Stone Residency: Harris Eisenstadt's rhythm / melody feast , Jazz Beyond Jazz August 24, 2015, accessed November 3, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Eisenstadt, Harris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian jazz percussionist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario