Victor Gould

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Victor Gould (* around 1980 in Los Angeles ) is an American jazz musician ( piano , composition ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Victor Gould, who is from Los Angeles, started playing the piano at the age of four. He attended The Colburn School in Downtown Los Angeles and had private lessons from Tamir Hendelman from the age of twelve . After high school, he attended High School for the Arts and later studied on a scholarship (Herbie Hancock Presidential Scholarship) at Berklee College of Music . After graduation, he continued his studies at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz , where he obtained a master's degree.

In the New York jazz scene, Gould has since worked with the quartet of Donald Harrison , with whom he toured the USA and Europe and recorded several albums. He was also part of Wallace Roney's band , with whom two albums were created. He has also performed with musicians such as Esperanza Spalding , Terence Blanchard , Branford Marsalis , Nicholas Payton and Ralph Peterson . He released the albums Clockwork (2016) and Earthlings under his own name, the latter with Dezron Douglas , Eric McPherson and Tim Warfield . In the field of jazz he was involved in 13 recording sessions between 2008 and 2017, including a. also with Holger Scheidt , John Petrucelli , Jazzmeia Horn , Nick Finzer and Jeremy Pelt . He is currently a member of the Rodney Green Quartet and works with his own quartet.

Awards

In 2006 he was a semi-finalist at the Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition ; In 2009 he received the Young Jazz Composer Award from the ASCAP Foundation. In 2016 Victor Gould's album Clockwork (together with Ron Stabinsky's Free for One and Earprint ) won the NPR Jazz Critics Poll in the Debut category .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Victor Gould. Smalls, May 1, 2019, accessed May 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Meeting (AllAboutJazz)
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 14, 2019)
  4. ↑ NPR Music Jazz Critics 2016. NPR, December 21, 2016, accessed March 31, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gould, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (piano)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles