» Brooklyn http://www.waynehuang.net Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:21:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Mat Maneri http://www.waynehuang.net/2007/02/mat-maneri/ http://www.waynehuang.net/2007/02/mat-maneri/#comments Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:24:40 +0000 Wayne http://www.waynehuang.net/?p=1047 matmaneriMat Maneri, born on October 4th, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York is an American composer, improviser and jazz violin and viola player, specifically derivatives such as the five-string viola, the electric six-string violin, and the baritone violin. He is the son of the saxophonist Joe Maneri. Maneri has recorded with Cecil Taylor, Matthew Shipp, Joe [...]]]>

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Mat Maneri, born on October 4th, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York is an American composer, improviser and jazz violin and viola player, specifically derivatives such as the five-string viola, the electric six-string violin, and the baritone violin. He is the son of the saxophonist Joe Maneri.

Maneri has recorded with Cecil Taylor, Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris, Joe Maneri, Gerald Cleaver, Tim Berne, Borah Bergman, Mark Dresser, William Parker, Michael Formanek, John Lockwood, as well as with his own trio, quartet, and quintet. He has also played on various band releases: Club d’Elf, Decoupage, Brewed by Noon, Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band, Buffalo Collision. Maneri has worked with Ed Schuller, John Medeski, Roy Campbell, Paul Motian, Tomasz Stanko, Robin Williamson, Drew Gress, Tony Malaby, Ben Monder, Barre Phillips, Joëlle Léandre, Marilyn Crispell, Craig Taborn, Ethan Iverson, David King and many others.

Maneri started studying violin at the age of five and received a full scholarship as the principal violinist at Walnut Hill High School. He also studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, he then went on to pursue a professional career in jazz music.

He is an experienced educator who has taught at the New England Conservatory and the New School among others. He has taught privately for over 15 years and has frequently presented specialized workshops on improvisation, performance technique, ear training and theory both in Europe and North America. In 2006, Maneri was nominated for a Grammy award in the category “Best Alternative Music Album” for the CD Pentagon.

Mat and his wife Lucy live in Brooklyn.

(Source: Mat Maneri’s MySpace page)

]]> http://www.waynehuang.net/2007/02/mat-maneri/feed/ 1 No First Name: A Tibetan in Exile http://www.waynehuang.net/2006/10/no-first-name-life-of-a-tibetan-in-exile/ http://www.waynehuang.net/2006/10/no-first-name-life-of-a-tibetan-in-exile/#comments Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:19:08 +0000 Wayne http://www.waynehuang.net/?p=303 dolma_009When Tsering Dolma first arrived in New York City in 2004, she barely spoke a word of English. She came only with a determination to survive and support her family still living in the Tibetan refugee villages of India. Like many other older, less-educated Tibetan women in exile, she went to work as a nanny [...]]]>

When Tsering Dolma first arrived in New York City in 2004, she barely spoke a word of English. She came only with a determination to survive and support her family still living in the Tibetan refugee villages of India. Like many other older, less-educated Tibetan women in exile, she went to work as a nanny and house maid to the wealthy elites of New York City.

Her journey to this new life began in 1996 when she escaped her homeland of Tibet along with her husband and three children to the refugee villages in Dharmsala, India. She recounts a life of oppression and abuse by Chinese authorities in Tibet. Rape at 16 by two Chinese soldiers on her father’s farm, jailings, beatings, and intimidation. While pregnant with her third child, Tenzin Sangmo, she was dragged out of her home one evening, placed in jail and kicked in the belly repeatedly. As a result Sangmo was born with neurological handicaps that make it difficult for her to perform everyday physical tasks.

Since settling in the U.S. she has gained refugee status and is on her way to gaining permanent residency. In the two years of working and saving, she was able to reunite with her family with the support of a philanthropist whose children she was a nanny to.

Dolma’s story is just one of millions of people displaced in their own homeland.

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