DMITRI MATHENY
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DMITRI MATHENY - Flugelhorn BERT DALTON - Piano ANDY ZADROZNY - Bass JOHN TRENTACOSTA - Drums SEPTEMBER 7th - FRIDAY MUSEUM HILL CAFE Doors - 6:00pm / Concert - 7:00pm TIX: $25.00 / $20.00 SFMC members INFO/RESERVATIONS: 505-946-7934 |
First introduced to jazz audiences in the 1990s as the protégé of Art Farmer, Dmitri Matheny has matured into "one of the jazz world's most talented horn players" (San Francisco Chronicle), a leading figure on the international jazz scene and one of the most prolific musicians of his generation. Matheny attended the prestigious Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, then the Berklee College of Music, Boston, graduating magna cum laude in 1989. After private studies with Carmine Caruso in New York City, Matheny became the protégé of the legendary Art Farmer, a formative relationship that lasted over a decade. Art Farmer, “the bebop master who defined the sound of the flugelhorn in modern jazz” [All Music Guide], was Matheny’s public champion and private mentor.
Today, Dmitri leads the Dmitri Matheny Group, an all-star ensemble featuring some of the most accomplished jazz artists in the western states. Matheny has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He has traveled to 19 countries and has performed with many Motown and popular music acts including the Temptations, Martha Reeves, Fabian, the Four Tops, Bobby Vinton, Sandy Patty, Bobby Rydell, Frankie Avalon and the O'Jays. Matheny has had the privilege of appearing in concert with such jazz luminaries as Larry Coryell, Nathan Davis, Amina Figarova, Tommy Flanagan, Wycliffe Gordon, Darrell Grant, Larry Grenadier, John Handy, Billy Higgins, Red Holloway, Denise Jannah, Charles McPherson, James Moody, Jean Louis Rassinfosse, Margo Reed, Tony Reedus, Sam Rivers, and Max Roach.
Dmitri is also a prolific composer and lyricist whose published compositions span the jazz, pop, symphonic, choral, chamber and world music genres. He has received premieres and commissions from Meet the Composer, St. Domenic's Church, the Manhattan New Music Project, the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the Jazz Composers Orchestra and 20th Century Forum. Dmitri has served as Director of Education, Director of Development and Director of Corporate Sponsorships for SFJAZZ, the largest nonprofit jazz presenter on the west coast, as Assistant Education Director for the Thelonious Monk Institute Jazz Colony at Jazz Aspen Snowmass, and as Artist-In-Residence for the Siskiyou Institute of Ashland and the Young Musicians Program of the University of California, Berkeley.
WITH SINCERE THANKS - TO OUR WONDERFUL SPONSORS AND GRANTOR
Meredith R. Speers and Seamus Malin
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BRUCE JOHNSON
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DICK and LAURIE MEYER
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ELAINE and MICHAEL BROWN
DAVE EDWARDS |
Sustaining Members: ANNA and MARK DAVIS
Sustaining Members: JERI and DON BALICK
Sustaining Members: JERI and DON BALICK
