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MP3 Joe Venegoni - Open Road
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JAZZ: Smooth Jazz, JAZZ: Jazz Fusion
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EVERY MUSICAL INSTRUMENT REQUIRES AN INNOVATOR,
AN EXPERIMENTER, A VIRTUOSO TO EXPLORE ITS POTENTIAL,
EXPLOIT THE POSSIBILITIES AND TAKE ITS SOUND TO A NEW LEVEL. FOR THE DULCIMER - AN INSTRUMENT THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR 2,500 YEARS - THAT GROUNDBREAKING MUSICIAN IS JOE VENEGONI
PERFORMER * COMPOSER * EDUCATOR * PRODUCER
Joe Venegoni has received international critical acclaim as a master musician, composer, percussionist and dulcimer virtuoso. In addition to headlining as leader of the Joe Venegoni Jazz Quintet, Joe performs and records with such international stars as Jiebing Chen and Yangqin Zhao of China, Shweta Jhaveri and Poolivar Shrinivasan of India, plus American artists Fareed Haque, Michael Manring, Carl Weingarten, Todd Mosby and the improvisational ensemble, Cloud Chamber.
As a composer, Joe has created scores for a variety of dance companies and independent choreographers including Sue Li-Jue''s Facing East Dance and Music, Robert Moses'' Kin, Janice Garrett, Kulintang Arts, Arturo Fernandez''s Left Coast Dance, and the Gash/Voight Dance Theatre. In 1999, Joe was presented with the Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Best Ensemble Performance, recognizing his work with Dance Artist, Robert Moses and Cellist, Dan Reiter. Joe has received two additional "Izzie" nominations for his performance in Facing East Dance and Music''s, Rice Women.
Joe is currently an artist-in-residence at Stanford University and the ODC Performing Arts Center in San Francisco. He is a former instructor with Washington University, Sonoma State University, and the Margaret Jenkins Performance Gallery School, San Francisco. As a guest artist, Joe has performed and conducted workshops at the Conservatoire National Superier et Musique et de Danse~Paris, the University of California at Berkeley and the San Francisco Ballet. He has performed master classes for the companies of Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Janice Garrett, David Parson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Margaret Jenkins, Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, ODC/SF, DV8 of London, and the Rambert Dance Co. of London.
As a producer, Joe has directed multiple CD recording projects, overseeing all aspects of production from concept to distribution. In the early 90''s Venegoni created and produced the Bridge Performing Arts Series at New Performance Galley in San Francisco. This was followed by the Music In Motion Series at ODC Theater which specialized in performances of live music and dance. Additionally, Joe produced and directed individual music concerts at Yerba Buena Center, The Cowell Theater, Bradey Street, ODC Theater, Theater Artaud, the Sebastiani Theatre and Andrew''s Hall at the Sonoma Community Arts Center.
In 1999, Joe establish Triaxon Productions, Inc., (https://www.tradebit.com) a California company that specializes in music for film, advertising, multi-media, corporate events, theater, dance and live concert performance. Triaxon''s client list includes Advanti Motion Pictures, Hewlett Packard, British Petroleum, The Bechtel Corporation, The United States Geological Survey, the Institute for International Studies and Stanford University.
Joe has served as a Board Member of the Marin Convention and Visitors Bureau, and a member of the Marin Art Council''s Marketing and Publicity Committee, Marin County, California. His professional affiliations include the Society of Composers, Broadcast Music, Inc. and the International Guild of Musicians in Dance. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Zellerbach Family Fund, the Missouri Arts Council and the California Arts Council.
Joe lives with his beautiful wife and daughter in Sausalito, California.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR VENEGONI''S OPEN ROAD...
To anyone who is a fan of Bela Fleck, Chick Corea or Pat Metheny, Venegoni''s work is a must. A musician''s musician, Venegoni is a master at one of the world''s oldest instruments, the dulcimer.
- NY Village Voice
Venegoni has taken the dulcimer into the realm of fusion, and has extended its harmonic possibilities in a manner no less revolutionary than Hendrix did with the guitar.
- Piero Scaruffi, Chicago Tribune
Excellent! Venegoni sees the dulcimer as having sounds unheard. With gusto, imagination and invention, he brings exciting new music from what resembles a miniature version of the insides of a piano.
- The Indianapolis Star
This is jazz of a different color. It is easy to find sax players - David Sandborn, Kenny G. and Wayne Shorter rank among the best - and guitarists like Mike Stern and Al Di Meola. But I defy you to find someone who bases all his work around the dulcimer. Joe Venegoni is nothing if not original.
- The San Francisco Chronicle
Open Road is one of the Top 10 Albums of the Year. The performance is tight, imaginative and skillful. There is always something unexpected or arresting to savor.
- Richard Price, Bay Area Music Magazine
Describing the music on Venegoni''s recordings, or in one of Venegoni''s live performances, one tends to revert to "motion" words such as "propulsion" and "momentum" and "flow." Venegoni''s compositions might convey the feeling of a purposeful departure, and the gathering momentum of an eventful journey, with fleeting, lyrical reflections along the wayside. This sense of motion in his music no doubt makes a forceful play upon the imagination of his audience.
- from "Music In Motion" by Paul Harris
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