A very special concert of music from the upcoming CD “Gendhing for a Spirit Rising”. This symphonic length piece, written over three decades, is an outgrowth of Lopato’s studies of Indonesian gamelan and a subsequent year spent living in Java in the mid 1980’s. It is a true meeting of East and West as distilled through this eclectic composer/improvisor.
Featuring:
David Lopato - piano, keyboards, percussion
Lucas Pino - saxophones, clarinet
Ratzo Harris - bass, cello
Richie Barshay - trap set, percussion, glockenspiel
Michael Beckett-Fedarko - piano, keyboards
Baron Fenwick - piano, keyboards
David Drake - keyboards
Jessica Tsang - marimba, vibraphone
Joel Ross - Marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel
Bobby Sanabria - percussion
Pianist/composer DAVID LOPATO has performed his own compositions extensively throughout the world. As a composer, he has received multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Meet the Composer, and The Beards Fund. He is also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to study Javanese Gamelan in Surakarta, Indonesia, where he lived for a year. As a performer Lopato has toured his own music in configurations ranging from solo piano to 10-piece ensembles. He has performed with Dave Liebman, Joe Lovano, Mark Helias, Ray Anderson, Wadada Leo Smith, Dewey Redman, Gerry Hemingway, and Jane Ira Bloom among others. He has recorded on the Lumina, Enemy, Unity and Global Coolant labels. In addition, he is the producer of the concert series at InHouse in downtown Manhattan, and teaches on the faculties of the The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and Montclair State University.
"an inventive and resourceful pianist...his compositions never faltering for a second” -The New York Times
Series produced by Philip Ballman
