Mat Maneri


Mat Maneri is an American composer, violin, and viola player. He is the son of the saxophonist Joe Maneri and Sonja Maneri.

Career

[Image:Mat Maneri.jpg|right|thumb|Mat Maneri in 2007]
Maneri has recorded with Cecil Taylor, Guerino Mazzola, Matthew Shipp, Joe Morris, 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 also played on various band releases such as: Club d'Elf, Decoupage, Brewed by Noon, Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band, and Buffalo Collision.
Maneri started studying violin at the age of five. He received a full scholarship as the principal violinist at Walnut Hill High School and New England Conservatory of Music, before going on to pursue a professional career in jazz music.
He started releasing records as a leader in 1996 and performed and recorded worldwide. Maneri has worked with Ed Schuller, John Medeski, Roy Campbell, Paul Motian, Robin Williamson, Drew Gress, Tony Malaby, Ben Monder, Barre Phillips, Joëlle Léandre, Marilyn Crispell, Craig Taborn, Ethan Iverson, David King and many others. Maneri also taught privately and at the New School.

Discography

As leader

  • Fever Bed
  • Acceptance Fifty-One Sorrows So What Blue Decco Trinity Sustain For Consequence Pentagon Dust
  • ''Ash''

As co-leader

In Time with Pandelis Karayorgis Three Men Walking with Joe Maneri and Joe MorrisOut Right Now with Joe Maneri and Joe MorrisLift & Poise with Pandelis KarayorgisBlessed with Joe ManeriLight Trigger with Randy PetersonTales of Rohnlief with Joe Maneri and Barre PhillipsDisambiguation with Pandelis KarayorgisGoing to Church with Maneri EnsembleJam with Assif Tsahar and Jim BlackAngles of Repose with Joe Maneri and Barre PhillipsChamber Trio with Mark O'Leary and Matthew ShippMetamorphosis with Arrigo Cappelletti, Andrea Massaria, and Nicola StranieriA Violent Dose of Anything with Ivo Perelman and Matthew ShippTransylvanian Concert with Lucian BanTwo Men Walking with Ivo PerelmanSounding Tears with Evan Parker and Lucian BanConference of the Mat/ts with Matthew ShippLive at the Armoury with Gordon Grdina and Christian LillingerOedipe Redux with Lucian BanTransylvanian Dance with Lucian BanChamber with Hein Westgaard

As sideman

With Borah BergmanThe River of Sounds
With Lucian BanEnesco Re-imagined Songs from Afar Blutopia
With Lucian Ban and John SurmanTransylvanian Folk Songs Cantica Profana Athenaeum Concert
With Michael BisioMBefore
With François CarrierHappening Openness
With Steve DalachinskyIncomplete Directions
With Kris DavisCapricorn Climber
With Heinz Geisser and Guerino MazzolaHeliopolis Chronotomy
With Whit DickeyLife Cycle Vessel in Orbit Astral Long Form
With Ellery EskelinVanishing Point
With Guillermo GregorioApproximately Red Cube
With Masashi HaradaObliteration at the End of Multiplication The Soul with Longing for Dim Hills and Faint Horizons
With Pandelis KarayorgisThe Other Name
With Franz KoglmannVenus in Transit
With Joëlle LéandreFor Flowers hEARoes Lifetime Rebel
With Brandon Lopeznada sagrada
With Russ LossingMetal Rat
With Joe ManeriKalavinka Get Ready to Receive Yourself Tenderly Dahabenzapple Coming Down the Mountain Let the Horse Go In Full Cry The Trio Concerts
With Joe McPheeWe Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
With Joe MorrisYou Be Me A Cloud of Black Birds Underthru Soul Search At the Old Office Balance
With Paul Motian Trio 2000 + TwoLive at the Village Vanguard Vol. II Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. III
With Neel MurgaiNeel Murgai Ensemble
With NatrajThe Goat Also Gallops Deccan Dance Song of the Swan
With Mark O'LearySelf-Luminous
With Ivo PerelmanCounterpoint Breaking Point Villa Lobos Suite The Art of the Improv Trio, Vol. 2 Strings 1 Strings 2 Strings 3 Strings 4 Seven Skies Orchestra Armageddon Flower
With Matthew ShippCritical Mass The Flow of X By the Law of Music Gravitational Systems Expansion, Power, Release Duos with Joe MorrisThe Gospel According to Matthew & Michael Symbolic Reality
With Jen Shyu & Jade TongueSounds and Cries of the World
  • Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses
With Ches SmithThe Bell
  • Interpret It Well
With Spring Heel JackMasses
With Stone Quartet DMG @ The Stone Volume 1: December 22, 2006 Live at Vision Festival
With Craig TabornJunk Magic Compass Confusion with Junk Magic
With Cecil TaylorAlgonquin
With Two Miles a DayTwo Miles a Day Two Miles a Day, So Depending On
With David S. WareThreads
With Robin WilliamsonThe Iron Stone
With Keith YaunCountersink Amen: Improvisations on Messiaen
With Jeong Lim Yang
  • ''Synchronicity''