Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri

On their second ECM duo album Romanian pianist Lucian Ban and US violist Mat Maneri find fresh inspiration as they follow the trail of Béla Bartók, revisiting the folk music that spurred the imagination of the great Hungarian composer who, in the early 20th century, collected and transcribed numerous pieces from Transylvania. For the duo these songs have become “springboards and sources of melodic material” for arrangements “that capture the spirit of the original yet allow us to improvise and bring our own world to them. If you go deeper into the source material, new vistas open up. These folk songs teach us many things.” (Steve Lake, album liner notes). Recorded live in October 2022 in the context of the Retracing Bartók project in Timi?oara, these performances also bear testimony to the finely attuned understanding that Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri have achieved in their long-running musical partnership.

More than a decade since they started working together as a duo, Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri are renowned for their amalgamations of Transylvanian folk with improvisation, their mining of 20th Century European classical music with jazz, and for their pursuit of a modern chamber jazz ideal

Watch Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri in concert at INSOMNIA HERE

Over the course of a twenty-five year career, MAT MANERI has defined the voice of the viola and violin in jazz and improvised music. Born in Brooklyn in 1969, he has established an international reputation as one of the most original and compelling artists of his generation, praised for his high degree of individualism, a distinctive marriage of jazz and microtonal music, and his work with 20th century icons of improvised music. All About Jazz considers ”Mat Maneri has changed the way the jazz world listens to the Violin & Viola.” Mat Maneri @ ECM

Called “A name to watch" by The Guardian and ”one of the most gifted pianists to move to New York" (B. Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery), LUCIAN BAN is a Romanian born, NYC based pianist & composer known for his amalgamations of Transylvanian folk with improvisation, for his mining of 20th Century European classical music with jazz, and for his pursut of a modern chamber jazz ideal. His music has been described as “emotionally ravishing" (Nate Chinen, New York Times/WBGO), a “triumph of emotional and musical communication" (All About Jazz), “Unorthodox but mesmerizingly beautiful" (The Guardian) and as holding an “alluring timelessness and strong life-force" (Downbeat Magazine). www.lucianban.com 

Showtime: 8 pm ET/7 pm CT/6 pm MT/5 pm PT/1 am GMT

In-person seats: $25 /$10 full-time students with valid ID
Ticket sales close one hour before show; remaiing tickets may be purchased at door.
In-person attendees receive a link to the recording to view for one week.

Streaming Cost is $15
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and will remain active through Sept. 28

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