Daniel Levin (cello), Mat Maneri (viola)

On Personal Myths, their second duo album, Daniel Levin and Mat Maneri have pushed the boundaries of their long-standing duo into new territories of virtuosity, intimacy, and nuance. Recorded in 2021, the music presented here provides the listener with a portal into worlds of sound and experience that can be found nowhere else.

Daniel Levin is “one of the instrument’s most brilliant contemporary practitioners” (The Wire), “ridiculously fluent, virtually overflowing with ideas” (New York City Jazz Record) and “very much the man to watch.” (Penguin Guide to Jazz). No matter what setting he plays in, cellist Daniel Levin occupies a musical space bordered by many kinds of music, but fully defined by none of them. 

“Demonstrating an impressive breadth of texture and contrast, the cellist Daniel Levin comes well prepared for a career in jazz’s contemporary avant-garde.” (Nate Chinen, The New York Times). 

Over the course of a twenty-five year career, Mat Maneri has defined the voice of the viola and violin in jazz and improvised music. Born in Brooklyn in 1969, Maneri has established an international reputation as one of the most original and compelling artists of his generation, praised for his high degree of individualism, a distinctive marriage of jazz and microtonal music, and his work with 20th century icons of improvised music. 

“Violist Mat Maneri has a sound all his own: with his mahogany tone and muscular low register, he slithers from note to note like asatiated snake.” (Chicago Reader)

Performance:

8:30pm - $25

Livestream:

8:30pm - $10 (online access only)

Virtual Season Pass - $100 (online access only)