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11/22 Saturday
4:30 PM MARIANA~ children's music
BIO
Mariana is a native from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She inherited the passion for music at an early age thanks to her Great Grandfather Julio De Caro, a famous Tango violinist, composer and orchestrator. On his antique piano, Mariana started to experiment the first connection with sounds and creativity. After attending Orff music classes and choir at the Collegium Musicum, she commenced her piano studies with Paula Gainza and continued through adolescence.
But in the year 1998, she was deeply driven by the sounds of rock music and decided to try the electric bass. Mariana started her studies with Roberto Moreno at EFIMUS and continued at ITMC (Instituto Tecnológico de Música Contemporánea) where she graduated and received her diploma in bass performance in 2001.
In 2002, Mariana traveled to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music where she studied with John Repucci, Anthony Vitti, Fernando Huergo and Oscar Stagnaro just to name a few. Mariana graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Professional Music (education and performance) in 2005.
Since then, she has performed live around the US and recorded many albums with different projects. Mariana is also an active music educator and children's music composer and performer. She has taught music classes in high school, private lessons for bass, guitar and piano, ensembles and children’s music classes since 1998.
She leads her own music group for children where she sings, plays guitar, bass and percussion and will be releasing her debut album in Spring 2009.
The Music:
Fun and educational, Mariana’s music is a bowl of magical stories mixed with a delicious sauce of creativity and uniqueness. The assorted flavors of reggae, folk, candombe, rock, blues, bossa nova, tango and jazz make the perfect blend for a multicultural recipe the entire family will enjoy. But let’s not forget about the essential ingredient: the love for children! They will grow healthy and happy with this musical banquette.
The Band:
Mariana Iranzi: voice, bass, percussion
Florencia Gonzalez: tenor saxophone, percussion
Juan Pedraza: guitar
Leo Genovese: piano
Brian Leyva: drums
for more info visit:
www.myspace.com/musicmariana
www.marianairanzi.com/
7:00 PM benefit concert
10:00 PM Gabriel Kahane
http://www.myspace.com/gkahane
Singer, pianist and composer Gabriel Kahane has a rare perspective on the changing landscape of musical influences and interactions. Armed with astounding technical virtuosity and an intensely deep gift for writing, Kahane is at the forefront of a generation of musicians who find their voices, outlets and audiences in unexpected and exciting places.
As a solo performer, Kahane has appeared at a wide range of venues from the darkest rooms of Brooklyn to the august Ravinia Festival in Chicago. His song cycle Craigslistlieder, art-song settings of eight anonymous posts he found on the ubiquitous personals/classifieds website Craigslist, has won over fans and critics with its affiliation of raucous pop culture and deft high-art craft. His other songs use similar groundwork to interact with the American songbook, literary and historical material, and the unique connection between singer/songwriter and listener.
Kahane is also currently performing and recording with a band, comprised of Rob Moose, violin and mandolin (Antony and the Johnsons, Sufjan Stevens, Duncan Sheik, Orchestra of St. Luke's), Sam Sadigursky, clarinets (The Words Project, Mingus Orchestra, Ray Brown), and Richie Barshay, percussion (Herbie Hancock, The Klezmatics). With similarly varied backgrounds and unimpeachable talent, they are already stirring audiences with new Kahane songs including the Ligeti homage "Side Streets" and the folk-inspired "Slow Down".
Immersed in music since the earliest moments of childhood, Kahane has collaborated in a myriad of settings with an impressive group of musicians. He continues to perform with renowned bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, with whom he has appeared in Los Angeles (REDCAT), London (Wigmore Hall), Berlin (Philharmonie) and at the prestigious Verbier Festival. In 2007, Kahane and award-winning jazz pianist Dan Tepfer debuted a collaboration in which Kahane performs a set of his music solo and then Tepfer and his trio perform the same songs reinterpreted, as an exploration of songwriting and improvisation. Both dynamic performers in their own right and long-time admirers of each other's work, Kahane and Tepfer plan to continue the duo show during the 07-08 concert season.
In addition to these ventures in the pop, jazz and classical music spheres, Kahane has worked extensively in theatre and dance. In the summer of 2007, Kahane was commissioned by the Williamstown Theatre Festival to write, with playwright Tommy Smith, Mecca/Medina, a country-infused retelling of the story of the Prophet Muhammad. The show premiered to great acclaim at the Festival in August 2007. In the 2007-08 season, he travels to Los Angeles to appear as both actor and bandleader for Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers’ emo-rock musical Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre. He has served as musical director for two other Les Freres Corbusier/Alex Timbers shows, Hell House (St. Anne's Warehouse) and A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (New York Theatre Workshop), and for the acclaimed revival of John Guare’s Landscape of the Body (Signature Theater).
Kahane makes his home in Brooklyn, NY, in close company with a piano and many books