Matthew Goodheart

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Matthew William Goodheart (* around 1970 in the San Francisco Bay Area ) is an American jazz and improvisation musician ( piano , composition , computer-controlled metal percussion).

Live and act

Goodheart studied at the University of California at Berkeley from 1989 to 1991 , and received his Masters in Music from Mills College from 2008 to 2013 . He also began his career as a pianist, initially in free jazz ; In 1992 he self-published his first solo album, The Cradle of Unacted Desire (A Night Journey) . The album Sonoluminescence (Nine Winds) was created in 1995 in a quartet with Glenn Spearman , Lisle Ellis and Donald Robinson . During this time he worked in California a. a. also with the Creative Music Orchestra ( American Jungle Suite , 1996), Marco Eneidi& The American Jungle Orchestra, Wadada Leo Smith , Dominic Duval , Gianni Gebbia, and Garth Powell ; he also appeared with Fred Frith , Pauline Oliveros , Vladimir Tarasov , Cecil Taylor and Jack Wright . In the field of jazz, he was involved in 13 recording sessions between 1995 and 2009. He finally turned to other musical areas, such as microtonal compositions, free improvisation and sound installations . In 2013 he received his PhD with the microtonal composition Abstract for 17 instruments with Ken Ueno in Berkeley. In 2014 he was a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin , 2015–2017 a postgraduate fellow at Columbia University .

Awards

Goodheart has received a number of grants and prizes, such as the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Berlin Prize in Music Composition (2014) and a 2013/14 Fulbright grant for research in the Czech Republic on historical quarter-tone pianos by Alois Hába .

Discographic notes

  • Songs From The Time Of Great Questioning (Meniscus, 1996)
  • Matthew Goodheart with Leo Smith: Interludes of Breath and Substance ( Cadence Jazz Records , 1998)
  • Matthew Goodheart & Dominic Duval: Crossings (Cadence Jazz, 1999)
  • Matthew Goodheart / Josh Allen / Garth Powell : Can Climb a Tree, I Can Tie a Knot, I Can Have a Conversation (Roadcone, 2000)
  • Gianni Gebbia / Matthew Goodheart / Garth Powell: Zen Widow (Evander Music, 2003)
  • Zen Widow: Quodlibet (Nine Winds, 2007), with Gianni Gebbia, Garth Powell
  • 6 (Evander Music, 2008) solo
  • Tenri / Live (Evolving Door Music, 2009), solo

Compositions (selection)

  • Metal Work , for computer controlled metal percussion, bowed cymbals (2011)
  • For 17 Instruments (2012)
  • Vexation Variations , for piano and autonomous viola (2013)
  • For bass , for solo contrabass (2008/2009)
  • For Piano and Metal Percussion , for piano, computer controlled metal percussion, bowed cymbals (2012)
  • For five scattered ensembles , for fourteen musicians divided into four ensembles and eight computer-controlled metal percussion instruments.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b portrait at Berlin Academy
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 12, 2018)
  3. ↑ Abstract for 17 instruments
  4. ↑ a b Program information at the Berliner Festspiele ( memento of the original from May 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinerfestspiele.de
  5. ↑ Portrait at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  6. ↑ a b Portrait at Columbia University
  7. ^ Composition index on the Goodheart website
personal data
SURNAME Goodheart, Matthew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goodheart, Matthew William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco Bay Area