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Tyshawn SoreybiographyTyshawn Sorey (born in Newark, New Jersey, 8 July 1980) is an active composer, performer, educator, and scholar who works across an extensive range of musical idioms. As a percussionist, trombonist, and pianist, Tyshawn has performed and/or recorded nationally and internationally with his own ensembles and with those led by Muhal Richard Abrams, Steve Coleman, "Butch" Morris, Michele Rosewoman, Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith, Dave Douglas, and Billy Bang, among many others. His recent music has focused on concepts derived from the music of Morton Feldman and Zen Buddhism; using these models for interpreting determinate music that act as principal generators for the discovery of ideas. Sorey's work has been favorably reviewed in Traps, The Village Voice, The Wire, The New York Times, Modern Drummer, The Star-Ledger, and Downbeat Magazine, and on WKCR-FM. His forthcoming article in Arcana 4 (John Zorn, ed.), entitled "Music and Meaning", examines his approach to both composition and improvisation. Sorey received his B.M. (2004) in Jazz Studies and Performance from William Paterson University where he studied under John Riley, James Williams, and Kevin Norton, while concurrently studying composition with Anton Vishio and John Link, in addition to working in various settings under Peter Jarvis, director of the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. Sorey has also conducted and participated in various lectures and master classes on improvisation, contemporary drumming, ensemble playing, and critical theory at the International Realtime Music Symposium in Norway, Hochschule für Musik Köln, School of Improvisational Music, Musikhochschule N¸rnberg, Berklee College of Music, Birmingham Conservatory of Music in England, and Citè de la Musique in Paris. He has received commissions from Van Lier Fellowship and Roulette Intermedium, most recently for a multi-chapter work in progress entitled "Wu-Wei", recently premiered in its' entirety at The Stone in New York City, where he served as curator-in-residence, in August 2009. Tyshawn is currently a private instructor in composition and improvisation for The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and the School of Improvisational Music. |
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