Lucian Ban / Mat Maneri Duo at Philadelphia Art Alliance

Ars Nova Workshop is pleased to present the Philadelphia debut of the Lucian Ban/Mat Maneri Duo. Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri (both born in 1969) are improvisers whose work is informed by jazz’s traditions and freedoms and by chamber music’s structural coherence and dynamics. The seeds of the duo were sown in an earlier Ban ensemble project “Enesco Reimagined," featuring Lucian’s arrangements of the works of his countryman George Enesco. “Transylvanian Concert” marks an ECM debut for Romanian-born pianist-composer Ban and a welcome return for Brooklyn-raised violist Maneri, in his ninth appearance for the label...

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Ars Nova Workshop is pleased to present the Philadelphia debut of the Lucian Ban/Mat Maneri Duo. Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri (both born in 1969) are improvisers whose work is informed by jazz’s traditions and freedoms and by chamber music’s structural coherence and dynamics. The seeds of the duo were sown in an earlier Ban ensemble project “Enesco Reimagined," featuring Lucian’s arrangements of the works of his countryman George Enesco. “Transylvanian Concert” marks an ECM debut for Romanian-born pianist-composer Ban and a welcome return for Brooklyn-raised violist Maneri, in his ninth appearance for the label. The album documents a performance in the Culture Palace of Targu Mures, in the heart of Transylvania.

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