Rob Waring

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Rob Waring (left, at the Kongsberg Jazzfestival 2017)

Robert "Rob" Waring (born December 3, 1956 in Yonkers , New York ) is an American percussionist and composer of contemporary music who has emerged both in the field of classical and jazz .

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Waring initially drummed and played the guitar; while in high school he took lessons from Roland Kohloff , who had just become a timpanist with the New York Philharmonic . From 1974 to 1979 he studied percussion at the Juilliard School with Saul Goodman and Elden Bailey and obtained a Master of Music after his bachelor's degree. During this time he also completed elective courses in composition with Stanley Wolfe and in 1975 studied jazz vibraphone with Dave Samuels . He has also attended seminars by John Cage , Iannis Xenakis , Magnus Lindberg , Tristan Murail, and others. He toured Norway with the Tasteless Blues Band in 1974. After completing his studies, he began his career as a freelance musician in New York and worked in symphony orchestras, jazz groups such as Spice (appearance at Vossajazz ), ensembles for new music and an experimental ensemble with self-made instruments.

In 1981 Waring moved to Oslo , where he raised with numerous ensembles and musicians of various musical genres, including classical, contemporary, modern and mainstream jazz, folk and electronic music . Together with Erik Wøllo and Jan Wiese, he presented the album Wiese Wøllo Waring in 1984 . In 1987 he founded his Rob Waring Trio with Frank Jakobsen and Carl Morten Iversen . In 1992 he released a first album with this trio, Secret Red Thread , which was followed by Synchronize Your Watches in 2010 . Since 2011 he has worked with David Friedman in a vibraphone - marimba duo, which performed their own compositions and explored new improvisational approaches.

He also worked with Beady Belle , Eyolf Dale , Jon Larsen ( A Portrait of Jon Larsen , 1993, Strange News from Mars , 2007, The Jimmy Carl Black Story , 2008), Elin Rosseland and Torbjørn Sunde . He is also on albums by Espen Rud , Torgrim Sollid, Rune Klakegg, Tone Hulbækmo, Arve Moen Bergset, Kjell Samkopf, Morten Halle , Lasse Thoresen, Peter Opsvik , Lars Klevstrand, SKRUK, Moscow Art Trio / Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Jon Eberson , Steffen Schorn / The Norwegian Wind Ensemble and Mats Eilertsen ( Rubicon 2016). In 2017 he recorded Surman's album Invisible Threads with John Surman and the Brazilian pianist Nelson Ayres .

Waring has been teaching percussion and improvisation as an associate professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music since 1982 . In 1992 he received a grant from the Norwegian government to study digital synthesis and computational composition with Trevor Wishart, Richard Orton and Michael Clarke at the University of York . In Bali he was instructed in gamelan music . He has composed for soloists, chamber music and jazz ensembles, choirs, drum ensembles, combinations of acoustic and electronic instruments and tape, as well as purely electronic works. Waring has written music for ballet, film, and theater. His sound installation Sonomatrix was presented in 1996 at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Bærum and the following year at the International Computer Music Conference in Thessaloniki. During the opening exhibition of the cultural center in Steninge Castle in Sweden in 1999, an electroacoustic music composed by him for this purpose was continuously performed.

Web links

Commons : Rob Waring  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Waring, Rob. Norsk Musikkinformasjon MIC.no, 2015, accessed July 14, 2019 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ a b c d Rob Waring - Biography. Listen to Norway, 2011, accessed July 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Waring, Rob. NorskPercussion.no, accessed July 14, 2019 . }
  4. ↑ Rubicon Review (Nordic Music)
  5. ↑ Discussion of Invisible Threads (NRWjazz)
personal data
SURNAME Waring, Rob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waring, Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American percussionist and composer of contemporary music
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Yonkers , New York