[NewMusicEvents] SIMM Series Jack Wright - 3/9/08, SF

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OUTSOUND Presents...
SIMM New Music Series
116 9th St. @ Mission, San Francisco
7:30 PM, donation 
$10 general $8 student/senior $5 artist
kids under 12 free
http://www.outsound.org
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Sunday, March 9 2008 7:30 PM

Jack Wright w/ Matthew Goodheart, Fabrizio Spera

Fabrizio Spera:
composer/performer (drums, electronics)
Since the end of the eighties Fabrizio Spera is active as musician and organizer in the field of experimental music with a special interest in free improvisation.
He played and collaborated with, among others: Mike Cooper, Peter Kowald, Wolfgang Fuchs, Otomo Yoshihide, Jon Rose, Tim Hodgkinson, Thomas Lehn, Jean Marc Montera, Tom Cora, Elio Martusciello, Conrad Bauer, Tristan Honsinger, Werner Ludi, John Butcher, John Edwards, Ab Baars, Rhodri Davies, Marc Wastell, Lol Coxhill, Chris Cutler, Mario Schiano, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Guido Mazzon, Sebi Tramontana, Martin Tétreault, Michel Doneda, Jérome Noetinger, Burkhard Beins Saadet Turkoz, Hans Koch, Martin Schuetz, Larry Ochs, Lisle Ellis, Wadada Leo Smith. Some of his current groups are Ossatura; Blast with Dirk Bruinsma, Frank Crjins, Paed Conca; Viktoria Frey (H. Eisler songs) with Sabina Meyer, Lauro Rossi, Fabrizio Puglisi; Lingua Wolfgang Fuchs with Thomas Lehn, Trio with John Butcher and John Edwards, RARA ensemble; Di Terra, trio with Alberto Braida and Lisle Ellis.
He played in festivals like: Controindicazioni (Rome, Italy), London Musician’s Collective (London, UK), Europa Jazz Festival (Noci, Italy), Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville, Quebec), Angelica (Bologna, Italiy), Musique Action (Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France), Jazzhaus Festival (Cologne, Germany), Synthese (Bourges, France), Musique Innovatrices (Saint-Étienne, France), Humannoise Congress (Wiesbaden, Germany), Tampere Jazz Happenings (Tampere, Finland), Alternativa (Prague, Hungary), Fruits de Mhere (Mhere, France), Total Music Meeting (Berlin, Germany), Yokohama Jazz promenade (Yokohama, Japan), Nits de Musica (Barcelona, Spain), Ring Ring (Belgrade, Serbia), Mix 02 (Århus, Denmark), Densité (Fresnes en Woevre, France), November Music (Ghent, Belgium).

Matthew Goodheart:
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area composer, improviser, and pianist, Matthew Goodheart explores a variety of contemporary music forms, from free improvisation to strictly notated chamber music. His broad foundation, technical innovations, and compositional sensitivity have allowed him to develop a solid reputation as both a solo performer and collaborative artist.
His career began early; by his mid-teens he was performing regularly, both as soloist and with various music groups, and at the age of 17 received his first composition commission to write music for a contemporary theater production. During this time, he studied with noted composer, theorist, and author W. A. Mathieu. Following high school, he spent 2 years at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, studying performance and sound-design, where he continued to work professionally. Dissatisfied with the narrow focus of a performing arts degree, he returned to California and enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley as an English Literature major. He was promptly commissioned by the theater department there to create a score for the expressionist play A Night In Old Market. While at Berkeley, he also began to delve deeply into jazz and began studying with the notable jazz pianist and educator Susan Muscarella. He graduated from Berkeley
 Phi Beta Kappa, with highest honors.
Soon after leaving Berkeley, he met saxophonist and composer Glenn Spearman and began a long association and friendship that terminated with Spearman’s death in 1998. Through Spearman, he was introduced to a great assortment of local and international musicians, including Lisle Ellis, Donald Robinson, Raphé Malik, Wadada Leo Smith, Marco Eneidi, Larry Ochs and many others. He also met several of the faculty of Mills College, and decided to enroll there. While earning his M.A. in music composition, Goodheart studied with Alvin Curran, Chris Brown, Annea Lockwood, George Lewis, Christian Wolff, and many others. He also continued his classical piano studies with Claudio Arrau student and master-teacher Goodwin Sammel. 
The last decade has seen a great variety of projects from Goodheart. He has recorded several CDs, all of which have received high critical praise. He has also continued performing contemporary piano works, including Maggi Payne’s Minutia, José Maceda’s Music for Four Winds and Two Pianos, Morton Feldman’s Atlantis and For Bunita Marcus, and Glenn Spearman’s Untitled Work for Solo Piano. He performed his works throughout the US, Canada and Europe, including the Klasppstuhlfest and Festival Frei Improvisiertor Musik in, Germany, the International Spectral Music Conference, in Istanbul, Turkey, the Illuminations New Music & Arts Festival, Michigan, the Opus 415Festival in San Francisco, and many others. Ever evolving, he has become focused increasingly on chamber composition. The last three years have seen an ongoing series of “studies,” focusing on the use of microtonality based on “individualistic instrumental properties” to create
 evocative and idiosyncratic harmonic and timbral worlds. 
In addition to his artistic career, he has published a number of articles, and has taught privately and at a variety of institutions, including Mills College, the University of California at Berkeley, and the East Bay Center for Performing Arts. He has also received a number of awards, including a feature at the New Langton Arts Awards Show, an Individual Artist Grant by the Marin Arts Council, and a residency at the Djerassi Resident Artists’ Program.

Jack Wright
Over the past twenty-five years Jack Wright has been a bold saxophonist, as well as an influential musical personality. Either on tour or organizing the next one, he has played in virtually every venue available to experimental improvised music in the US, and many in Europe as well. In 1982 he began Spring Garden Music as a vehicle for organizing an improvisational music community, which continues to grow through regular No Net weekend sessions. He has been called the Johnny Appleseed of free improvisation for his encouragement to young players. As a musical explorer as well, his music passes through radical shifts of style and approach from one year to the next, yet always somehow identifiable as his own. These days he is playing mostly alto and soprano saxophones, in every possible direction, sometimes even recognizable as such. He lives in Easton, which enables him to commute easily to NYC and Phila. He is also increasingly active in Europe, touring
 both sides of the Atlantic with European musicians.
The Washington Post says, "In the rarefied, underground world of experimental free improvisation, saxophonist Jack Wright is king". And a German publication, Bad Alchemy, had this to say of his solo: "Wright does not make music, he embodies it, he transforms it with a naiveté of another order. It grows into a sound river, he is part of the diaphragm through which the heterogeneous whispers."
Jack has over sixty partners around the US and in Europe with whom he plays on his travels and records. His most recent tours have been with French soprano sax player Michel Doneda and percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani in Japan, France and the US; with Agnes Palier and Olivier Toutlemond in the US, France, Switzerland and Germany; with Carol Genetti, sound vocalist of Chicago, and Jon Mueller, percussionist of Milwaukee in the US and Europe; with Fabrizio Spera and Alberto Braida in Italy; with Michael Johnsen and Sebastien Cirotteau in the US and Europe; cellist Bob Marsh of the Bay area; Nate Wooley, trumpet, of NYC in Europe; Michael Griener percussion and Sabine Vogel flute of Berlin; Reuben Radding, NYC bassist; and Phil Durrant, English laptop musician.
Working with Butoh dancers in US and Europe: Azumaru, Ximena Garcia, Marlene Jobstl, Kan Katsura

Discography--36 records and cd's, see below for details
For a full bio, writings, sound files and list of recordings visit his website: www.springgardenmusic.com
feature article in Signal to Noise Magazine: www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/monthly2003/04apr_text.html
2001 interview with John Berndt:
www.redroom.org/documentation/wright.html


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