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10/05 Sunday
2:00 PM private event
7:00 PM Osnat Netzer/Michel Reis Trio
7:00pm
Jared Burrell - trumpet
Tal Gamlieli - bass
Osnat Netzer - piano and vocals
Tyson Stubelek - drums
8:30pm
Michel Reis Trio:
featuring:
Michael Gleichman on drums
Tal Gamlieli on bass
Michel Reis on piano
About Osnat Netzer:
Osnat is classically trained as both pianist and composer, holding degrees from Jerusalem Academy of Music, and the New School's Mannes College of Music in NY. During her obligatory military service, she worked as a keyboardist and arranger for the Nachal military band. Osnat is a performer of radical and traditional Klezmer music, contemporary classical music and early music. Her songs are mainly influenced by Yoni Rechter and Sasha Argov, as well as klezmer and jazz. Classical compositions of hers range from solo instruments - like the recent solo marimba piece - to chamber and symphonic music. Currently, Osnat is working on a doctorate in composition, teaching theory at the New England Conservatory and writing her first opera on a text by Hanoch Levin.
This concert is the culmination of a project on which Osnat has been working for the last three years - a concert of original songs, all set to poems by Hebrew-language poet Leah Goldberg.
http://www.myspace.com/osnatnetzer
Jazz Pianist and Composer Michel Reis was born in Luxembourg in 1982. Classically
trained from the age of 8, he started to become more and more interested in Jazz and
improvised music after having heard his fathers recordings of Duke Ellington and Erroll
Garner. At the age of 14, Michel decided to enter the Jazz Class of the "Conservatoire de
la Ville de Luxembourg", where he studied Jazz Piano with Belgian pianist and composer
Kris Defoort, Harmony, Theory with Luxembourgian trumpet player and film composer
Gast Waltzing and classical piano with Serge Bausch.
After completing his studies at the conservatory in Luxembourg, Michel moved to
Boston to study at the Berklee College of Music on scholarship, earning a Bachelors
Degree in Jazz Performance and Jazz Composition. His teachers were Joanne Brackeen,
Danilo Perez, Frank Carlberg, Ed Bedner, Hal Crook and Greg Hopkins.
Michel Reis released his first album as a leader for WPR (Waltzing-Parke Records) in
2005, featuring Michael Oien on the bass and Dennis Frehse on drums. As a sideman,
Michel appeared on the album "Fables of Lost Time", released by the band Largo for
Warner Jazz UK; and on the CD "Stop Requested", with the Alex Terrier Quartet.
Michel Reis performed extensively in throughout Europe, USA and Japan, with his own
Trio, the Nir Naaman Quartet, the Alex Terrier Quartet, High Groovin', Gast Waltzing
and Largo, Didier Lockwood and the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, as well
in duo an solo settings.
Michel was awarded the 4th place at the First Moscow Competition for Jazz Perfomers
(Piano) in 2005, and in 2006, he won the 2nd price at the Montreux Jazz Solo Piano
Competition.
Michel is currently pursuing his Masters of Music Degree in Jazz Piano with Danilo
Perez, Frank Carlberg, Ran Blake and George Garzone at the New England Conservatory
of Music in Boston.
Quotes:
Michel Reis is a very exceptional pianist and composer.
-Joe Lovano / Jazz Saxophone
Michel Reis is a musician of outstanding talent, discipline and seriousness.
-Danilo Perez / Jazz Pianist and Composer
...Another trio led by a pianist, Michel Reis, tempered its impressionism with rhythmic
suspense.
-New York Times, January 2007
Michael Gleichman started playing drums when he was seven years old. His teacher quickly introduced him to jazz, highlighting great drummers such as Tony Williams, Roy Haynes, and Art Blakey.
In his years of drumming, Michael has had the honor of playing with many jazz greats, including Dave Holland, Victor Goines, Bill Watrous, Jim Rotondi, David Sánchez, Jim Snidero, Rufus Reid, and David Hazeltine. Michael has studied under Jerry Bergonzi, Billy Hart, Bob Moses, Danilo Perez, Victor Goines, Billy Degnats, David Baker, Gordon Vernick, Justin Varnes, John Riley, Jason Tiemann, and Dan Haerle.
Michael has won many awards, including the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts' Recognition and Talent Search for Jazz Percussion, Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Fellowship, Atlanta Federation of Musicians Scholarship, Woody Herman Jazz Award, and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award.
Currently, Michael attends New England Conservatory of Music and Tufts University in the 5-year, dual-degree program. He is studying under Jerry Leake, George Garzone, and Jerry Bergonzi.
Jazz bassist and composer Tal Gamlieli creates simple melodies that speak directly to the listener's heart. Within his first year in the US, the Jerusalem-born musician won the 2007 DownBeat Award for Outstanding Performance.
Tal Gamlieli has played for audiences in the Boston area at Jordan Hall, Ryles Jazz Club, Berklee College of Music, The Lily Pad and Wally's Jazz Club, in Israel at the Jerusalem Theater and the Jerusalem Music Center, and in Russia at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Hall. In Israel he collaborated with jazz musicians Arnie Lawrence, Omri Mor, Ofer Ganor, Rea Bar-Ness, Ittai Rosenbaum, and Shai Maestro.
Gamlieli's approach to composition is influenced by classical harmony and counterpoint, and rhythms from the American swing, Middle Eastern, North African and South American traditions. Tal is interested in creating a constant interaction of developing motifs, writing chamber music in jazz idiom, and in balancing composed and improvised elements of a piece. In performances of his works, individual solos develop organically from the spontaneous dialogue created by the group in the moment.
Pursuing a Master's in Jazz Performance at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Tal has studied with Danilo Perez, Dave Holland, Cecil McBee, Jerry Bergonzi, and Donald Palma. In Israel he studied with Mr. Michael Klinghoffer, Dr. Bat-Sheva Rubinstein, Opher Brayer and Omer Avital.
In addition to performing widely, upon completion of his degree, Tal plans to teach in both the United States and in his native Israel, with an emphasis on music as a cultural bridge.
Gamieli's current projects include: A new quartet featuring saxophonist Tom Lew, guitarist Nadav Remez and Mick Gleichman on drums. Tal is also a member of the Harvie Diamond Trio, the Jason Yeager Trio, the Nick Grondin Quintet and the Michel Reis Trio.
10:00 PM Gill Aharon Trio/Skye Steele Quartet
www.myspace.com/thegillaharontrio
the Skye Steele Quartet
Skye Steele, violin and poems
Josh Myers, bass
John Hadfield, drums
Cadence review says of Skye Steele's debut CD, late bloomer, "It’s clear that this crew is ready to stretch out in a million directions, and have tons of fun doing it…. Steele’s fabulous tone and inventive solo sense didn’t just happen over night.” Tonight they'll explore the music from that CD as well as a new book of compositions built around poems by Henry Dumas, Li-Young Lee, and other great American poets.
In ten years in New York, Skye Steele has risen from a subway musician to working with world-class artists ranging from Steven Bernstein and Cyro Baptista, to Willie Nelson and Vanessa Carlton. In addition to playing classical music since the age of 3 and cutting his teeth in NYC's jazz scene, Skye has spent time in Brazil and Turkey studying the improvisational fiddling traditions of those cultures, and brings a keen awareness of the violin as a global instrument to his composing and improvising.
http://www.skyesteele.com/
http://www.myspace.com/skyesteele
http://www.cdbaby.com/skyesteelequintet