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PLAY! A concert series of microtonal improvised music held at St. Paul's Cathedral (130 Tremont St., Boston, MA) showcases four diverse musicians who share a common goal of spontaneous microtonal expression and will present virtuosic guest performers with various microtonal voices who will both contrast with and complement the core ensemble, sparking the search for new sounds. The PLAY! ensemble: Noah Kaplan- saxophone NEXT CONCERT:
Noah Kaplan grew up in Topanga Canyon, CA. In May of 2002 he recorded with the illustrious Peter Erskine Trio. The following Fall, he began studies at the New England Conservatory of Music where he was selected as a member of the Honors Jazz quartet for 2004-05. For the past four years he has studied saxophone, theory and composition with microtonal theorist and jazz luminary Joe Maneri. In 2005, he was the recipient of the Jonathan Keith Foundation award for his work with microtones. In 2006, he became Joe Maneri's teaching assistant at NEC in microtonal theory. In Fall of 2007, The Light and Other Things, an album of microtonal improvisation featuring Noah, bassist Giacomo Merega and the renowned guitarist David Tronzo will be released by Creative Nation Music. Noah now lives in Brooklyn and plays regularly in NYC and Boston. He is also the artistic director of PLAY!, a new concert series of microtonal improvisation presented by the Boston Microtonal Society. Benjy Fox-Rosen is a bass player living in Brooklyn, New York City. He moved from Los Angeles in 2002 to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary music, where he had the opportunity to study with Mark Helias, Mark Dresser and Jane Ira Bloom, among others. After studying in Buenos Aires in the Fall of 2005 with maestro Javier Dragun, Benjy returned to NY to finish school and immediately joined the Luminescent Orchestrii, a gypsy/tango/klezmer/punk string band based in Brooklyn. Since then, Benjy has toured internationally performing throughout the United States and Europe. Benjy was a recipient of the Bronfman Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Student Artists in 2007, for "Minutn fun Bitokhn," his suite melding Yiddish songs with improvised and composed music. He was privileged to include in his band Judith Berkson, Noah Kaplan and Juan Pablo Carletti. Benjy also serves as Cantorial Soloist at the Jewish Home and Hospital in the Bronx. James Bergin Click here for biography. Juan Pablo Carletti was born in 1973 in Buenos Aires. His father was a percussionist and his mother listened to R&B all the time. He began studying drums with famous drummers from Argentina, Fernando Martinez, Quintino Cinalli and Pepi Taveira. He studied piano and harmony with Adrian Laies and Enrique Norris. He performed with many bands, and his main interest was focusing on improvised music and playing mainstream jazz. He studied with Barry Alshchult when he visited Argentina, and played with some of the most important musicians, like Argentinian jazz elder Hernan Merlo (with whom he realesed a CD in trio with Lucio Balduini). He started a small label dedicated to new music, and a year later produced Enrique Norris solo piano disc Logomaquia. He performed in every jazz venue in Beunos Aires, and played with improvisers from around the world (Le Quan Ninh, Bohb Rainey, David Haney), through a close relation with percussionist dancer Diego Chamy. He participed in collaborations with contemparary music composer Gabriel Paiuk. He performed with every major jazz musician in Beunos Aires. In 2005 he traveled to NYC to play with the David Haney group with another drummer, one of his early heroes Andrew Cyrille, and study with Tim Berne, Mark Helias, Tom Rainey, Gerald Cleaver, Nasheet Waits, Mat Maneri and Tony Malaby, who encouraged him to move to NYC. In 2006 he performed with his own groups including Rodrigo Dominguez, Jeronimo Carmona and Paula Shocron, and recorded with the big electric combo Datrebil, directed by guitar wizard Wenchi Lazo with Franco Fontanarrosa, and Lobi Meis. In 2007 he moved to NYC and began playing with some of the most adventurous players from the scene. He is a former student of Randy Peterson. |
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