Sal Matriano

"Composer Salvatore Martirano invited me to join his composition class and Jerry (Lejaren) Hiller let me attend his lectures on Electronic music and work in the Studio. John Garvey recruited me to perform with the University Jazz Band. . . .I began listening to the music of Gil Evans, Miles Davis, and Bill Evans. I immediately got hired for jazz gigs and these jobs introduced me directly to the problems and principles of jazz improvisation. I met Elliot Carter at one of Sal Martirano’s famous “Roundhouse” partys. Later I attended his festival lecture and saw him for a private lesson. My piece Occasion for Four Winds was performed on a concert Sal had arranged. First public performance of a work by me."
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