Mat Maneri viola
Eva Novoa piano & Chinese gongs

$20

Mat Maneri, a leading improvisational voice of his generation, began studying the violin at the age of five, but since borrowing a viola for a jam session at the 1998 ECM festival in Badenweiler, he has made the viola his instrument of choice. Important influences on Maneri’s work – in addition to all the major forces of jazz – include Baroque music (which he studied with Juilliard String Quartet co-founder Robert Koff), Elliott Carter, and the Second Viennese School of Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. He is joined by Brooklyn based (Barcelona born) pianist Eva Novoa here on piano and Chinese gongs to explore the duo format. This will be Maneri-Novoa's first live performance.