Mat Maneri
Mat Maneri ( born October 4, 1969 in Brooklyn / New York City ) is an American composer and jazz violinist and violist.
Life and work
Maneri began at the age of five years playing the violin and has already appeared on the age of seven with his father, Joe Maneri. He took private lessons with the founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet, Robert Koff, and with bassist Miroslav Vitouš. After attending the Walnut Hill High School, he studied at the New England Conservatory of Music.
In 1990 he founded with Randy Peterson Mat Maneri Quartet which, later, he also worked with various trio formations. In 1996, he published albums as a bandleader. He also worked with the Joe Morris Quartet and recorded several albums, including the ECM album Three Men Walking (1995 ) with his father. As a sideman he has performed with the pianist Paul Bley, Cecil Taylor, Marilyn Crispell, Matthew Shipp (By the Law of Music 1996) and Borah Bergman, with the bassist Ed Schuller, Mark Dresser, William Parker, Michael Formanek, Barre Phillips, Joëlle Léandre and John Lockwood, also with John Medeski, Tim Berne, Cecil McBee, TK Ramakrishnan, Franz Koglmann and Roy Campbell.
Maneri has taught at the New England Conservatory and has given workshops in North America and Europe. His CD album Pentagon was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Alternative Music Category, 2006.
Disco Graphical Notes
- So What with Randy Peterson, Matthew Shipp, 1998
- Light Trigger with Randy Peterson, 1998
- Trinity, solo album, 1999
- Blue Decco with Gerald Cleaver, William Parker, Craig Taborn, 2000
- Fever Bed, 2000
- Sustain with Gerald Cleaver, Joe McPhee, William Parker, Craig Taborn, 2002
- Pentagon with John Hébert, Joe Maneri, Sonja Maneri, Johnny McLellan, Tom Rainey, Jamie Saft, Craig Taborn, Ben Gerstein, 2005