Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri - Transylvanian Concert Release at Rubin Museum of Art

New York, NY: Pianist Lucian Ban and Violist Mat Maneri celebrate the release of their new ECM release “Transylvanian Concert “ with a performance at the Rubin Museum, Friday, June 7, 7pm, tickets are $20/18, for more information go to: http://www.rmanyc.org/events/load/2182

Transylvanian Concert marks an ECM debut for Romanian-born pianist-composer Lucian Ban and a welcome return for US violist Mat 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.

Ban and 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...

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New York, NY: Pianist Lucian Ban and Violist Mat Maneri celebrate the release of their new ECM release “Transylvanian Concert “ with a performance at the Rubin Museum, Friday, June 7, 7pm, tickets are $20/18, for more information go to: http://www.rmanyc.org/events/load/2182

Transylvanian Concert marks an ECM debut for Romanian-born pianist-composer Lucian Ban and a welcome return for US violist Mat 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.

Ban and 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. “Structure can be learned,” Ban says. “Freedom is more an instinct. I think there’s no essential difference between composition and improvisation. The great players erase completely the line - their improvisations sound like compositions and the other way around.” This can certainly be claimed for the pieces heard in the Transylvanian Concert: Ban’s compositions here – “Not That Kind of Blues”, “Harlem Bliss”, “Monastery” and “Two Hymns” – were created with Mat Maneri and his uniquely liquid, dark sound in mind. “Mat and I have a telepathic understanding when we play, and much of the music takes shape as we play it.”

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