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Matt Turner

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  • Genre: Experimental / Indie / Jazz

    Location APPLETON, Un

    Profile Views: 13331

    Last Login: 7/17/2012

    Member Since 10/16/2007

    Website www.improvcellist.com

    Record Label Illusions,Ayler, Sketch/Harmonia Mundi,Fever Pitch,Tautology,others

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Improvising cellist Matt Turner (United States) has been recording and touring with pianist Bill Carrothers' Armistice 1918 project for several years. Equally skilled as a pianist, Turner performs in a myriad of styles and has shared the stage with Cape Breton fiddle sensation Natalie MacMaster, avant-garde pianist Marilyn Crispell, country musician Wanda Vick, singer-songwriter LJ Booth, and jazz musician Bobby McFerrin to name a few and has performed in Canada, Europe and Asia. He appears on over 100 recordings on Sketch/Harmonia Mundi, Illusions, Ayler, Clean Feed, CRI, Music and Arts, Accurate, Polyvinyl, Cadence Jazz and others and has recorded with goth vocalist/pianist Jo Gabriel, singer-songwriters Mark Croft and Tret Fure, punk artist Kyle Fischer, Kitty Brazelton's chamber rockestra Dadadah, and with the Pointless Orchestra. Turner has performed at several music festivals including the Paris JVC Jazz Festival, Nancy Jazz Pulsations, Avignon Jazz Festival, Festival en Haute-Garonne, International Cello Festival in Montreal, and the New Directions Cello Festival. Turner completed his undergraduate studies at Lawrence University and his Master of Music degree in Third Stream Studies (now the Contemporary Improvisation program) at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Dave Holland, Geri Allen and Joe Maneri, and where he was the recipient of a Distinction in Performance Award. Turner teaches improvisation at Lawrence University and at the Renaissance School For The Arts. As a leader, Turner's recordings appear on Stellar, O.O. Discs, Asian Improv, Penumbra, Fever Pitch, Geode, Tautology, and Meniscus Records. Turner's music is published by Carl Fischer, Alfred Music, Latham Music and Alliance Publications. Turner is a Yamaha Performing Artist. He lives in Appleton Wisconsin with his wife, daughter, and son.

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