Tanya Kalmanovitch

Tanya Kalmanovitch (born July 5, 1970 in Fort McMurray , Alberta ) is a Canadian jazz and improvisation musician ( viola , violin , also vibraphone and vocals ), composer and music teacher .

Live and act

Kalmanovitch presented her debut album Hut Five in 2002 as a quartet . In 2004 she moved to New York City , where she worked in the jazz and improvisation scene. a. with Mark Turner , Mark Helias , Benoît Delbecq , David Liebman , Tom Rainey , Ronan Guilfoyle , Chris Speed , Lindsey Horner , Andy Laster , Ernst Reijseger , Dominique Pifarély , Vincent Courtois , Rob Thomas , Mat Maneri and the Turtle Island String Quartet . In India she studied with the violinist Lalgudi GJR Krishnan and the veena player Karaikudi S. Subramanian. In 2007 the duo album Heart Mountain was released with the pianist Myra Melford . She also took part in the recordings of Jann Arden . In 2010 she performed in a duo with Simon Nabatov in the Cologne Loft .

Kalmanovitch teaches at the Department of Creative Improvisation at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston , as well as regularly at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and at the Koninklijk Conservatorium The Hague . She is a founding member of the Brooklyn Jazz Underground initiative in New York City, she was the representative of Canada in the International Association of Schools of Jazz , is a founding member of the Jazz String Caucus in the International Association for Jazz Education and a mentor in the Sisters in Jazz program .

Winterland (2004)
Out Where the Trains Don't Run (2004)
Heart Mountain (2007), with Myra Melford
Ivo Perelman , Mat Maneri , Tanya Kalmanovich: Villa Lobos Suite (Leo 2015)
Marilyn Crispell, Tanya Kalmanovich, Richard Teitelbaum ; Dream Libretto (Leo 2018)

personal data
SURNAME	Kalmanovitch, Tanya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian jazz and improvisation musician
DATE OF BIRTH	5th July 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fort McMurray