jazz/imrov
7-9 pm
$10 donation
Featuring:
Joe Maneri, reeds and poetry
David G. Haas, piano
Yi-Chen Chang, violin and ethnic instruments
Marc Riordan, drums
JoAnn DiSalvo Haas, poetry
For more information on the performers (see bios)
BIOS ARE:
JOE MANERI is a distinguished faculty member at the New England
Conservatory, teaching harmony, counterpoint, composition, saxaphone,
improvisation and microtonal theory and composition. His class, unique in
the United States, has a national reputation and frequently has overflowing
enrollment. Overwhelming interest in his class let to the founding of the
Boston Microtonal Society, a non-profit organization promoting the study and
performance of microtones. As a soloist Joe has performed Greek, Syrian,
Jewish and Turkish music on clarinet and saxaphone. He has written tunes
and subsequent improvisations, Greek melodies and rhythms,and twelve-tone
compositional ideas. He has recorded with the Joe Maneri Quartet over
seventeen albums on Leo Records, HatArt and ECM records. He also is a very
gifted poet.
DAVID G. HAAS is a versatile composer and pianist with varied experience.
In addition to composing original music for JD HAAS PRODUCTIONS, David has
written music for theatre productions of The Seagull, Hamlet, Dinaya, and
Thumbelina. His music has been produced internationally in the United
States, Russia, the Ukraine and Bermuda. David has also produced original
music on Wisconsin’s PBS network, Cape Cod’s WOMR Theatre of the Air and on
Cable TV in various cities nationwide. David’s strongest influences have
been blues and jazz with classical references and a taste for mid-late 20th
century harmonies. David studies with Joe Maneri. He has also earned a
Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he
was influenced by Cecil Taylor. He has studied at the Kodaly Institute in
Hartford, Connecticut, as well as the Sessione Senese per la Musica e l’
Arte in Sienna, Italy.
YI-CHEN CHANG is a Taiwanese born multi-instrumentalist, on the violin,
piano, and a number of Chinese and Turkic ethnic instruments. Chang came to
Boston in 2000 and studied violin with Marylou Churchill at the New England
Conservatory. In 2002, she continued studying jazz and improvisation,
composition, and ethnic music in the NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation
department. Her teachers include Ran Blake, Allan Chase, Michael Gandolfi,
Joe Maneri, Karim Mohammed, and Hankus Netsky. Chang holds a double Master
degree in Contemporary Improvisation and Classical Performance. Recently,
Chang discovered and began studying Uyghur music from Xinjiang Uyghur
Autonomous Region in China.
MARC RIORDAN is a drummer who began performing in Boston clubs and
performance spaces at the age of sixteen. Since then he has performed with
Steve Lacy, Joe Morris, Stephen Haynes, Allan Chase, Dominique Eade, Stan
Strickland, and others. In 2004, Marc Riordan completed a B.M. in Jazz
Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music. He is now living in
the Boston area. In addition to keeping a regular performance schedule, he
is co-organizer of the Monday Night Music concert series, a weekly workshop
of all types of music, at the Artists-at-Large Gallery in the Hyde Park
neighborhood of Boston.
JOANN DISALVO HAAS is a lyricist and vocalist who also composes music for
JD HAAS PRODUCTIONS. JoAnn has composed an original musical “Believe in
Your Self , more recently produced as “A Lion’s Tale”. She was awarded the
Editor’s Choice Award by the National Library of Poetry in 1996. JoAnn’s
education includes private study with faculty members in voice, composition
and piano at the Longy School of Music and New England Conservatory.