“What do you call this music? Is it chamber music; is it jazz? Is it Mahler? Is it free improvisation?” — Mat Maneri
In connection with Chamber Music America and National Chamber Music Month, Mat Maneri and Tanya Kalmanovitch will explore answers to those question as well as others in a talk and performance at Mana Contemporary on May 19. Get more information and RSVP here.
Photo by Yona Monakhov
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The July 26 concert by the Kalmanovitch Maneri Duo at Brooklyn venue Jack made Jazz Right Now's top-ten list of Best Live Concerts of 2015.
The duo recently completed a successful Kickstarter campaign and is finishing their first recording Magic Mountain, based on the Thomas Mann novel, Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain).
The album, a suite of nine pieces for two violas, will be released on CD and double-LP in May 2016.
Don't miss a free concert by violists Tanya Kalmanovitch and Mat Maneri tonight at 8PM!
Violists Mat Maneri and Tanya Kalmanovitch have completed a successful Kickstarter campaign to help fund their first album as a duo, achieving 112% funding with five days remaining.
Photo by Yola Monakhov.
Tanya Kalmanovitch and Mat Maneri have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to manufacture and distribute their new duo recording Magic Mountain.
The album is a suite of nine improvised pieces for two violas. The title is borrowed from Der Zauberberg, Thomas Mann’s 1924 novel about a young man whose three-week visit to a Swiss sanitarium mysteriously turns into seven years. Like Mann, Kalmanovitch and Maneri are fascinated by the mystery of time and the ambiguity of memory and modern experience. Their playing is an exploration of those themes, and they blend composition and improvisation to create a kind of chamber music that has never been heard before and will never be heard again.
Check out the campaign at Kickstarter.
