facebook/middle.east.ethnic.music The Macedonian/Turkish clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski grew up in the Balkans cherishing his recordings of Western classical music, jazz, hip hop and rock. His ability to perform both Western Classical music and Balkan folk music with such inimitable skill is a rarity this writer has never witnessed close up before. None but a few distinguished musicians have truly mastered two opposite musical styles. Wynton Marsalis comes to mind with his astonishing virtuosity as a classical trumpeter and a Grammy Award winning performer of jazz. Lumanovski is perhaps the first Roma (Gypsy) clarinet player to graduate from the renowned Juilliard School of Music in New York, and his understanding of Mahler and orchestral playing is as developed as his profound passion for and skill in playing the music from his ethnic childhood. His performances have been widely reviewed. The New York Times wrote of his work under Pierre Boulez, The soloist - the brilliant, fearless young clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski - aligned himself with various instrumental contingents of the large ensemble.He is proud to have participated in the New York debut of the Carter Clarinet Concert Concerto with musicians from New Julliard Ensemble and the Lucerne Festival Academy with Maestro Boylez. at Jilliard, he studied under Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima and was the recipient of the Satterhwaite Scholarship, the Benjamin and Hadassah Michtom Scholarship and the Martha Dwight Douglas Memorial Scholarship. Professionally, Lumanovski has had the privilege to perform with innumerable extraordinary masters of Middle Eastern, Turkish, Roma and Greek music, including Marcel Khalife, Al Di Meola, Hüsnü Şenlendirici, Ivo Papazov, Selim Selser, Vasilis Saleas, Selloane Nkhela, Zülfü Livaneli and Yeni Türkü. I have witnessed him perform at a superb concert at Lincoln Center only to see him again two hours later at DROM, his favorite downtown club in New Yorks East Village, on Avenue A and 5th Street, performing with his own band, The New York Gypsy All Stars, wailing and dancing around the stage to his Techno, Hip-hop arrangement of an old Gypsy kjuchek.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:04:13 +0000
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