Vinny Golia
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| Vinny Golia | |
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| Born | March 1, 1946 The Bronx, New York City, New York |
Vinny Golia (born March 1, 1946 in The Bronx, New York City, New York) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in woodwind instruments. He performs in the genres of contemporary music, jazz, free jazz, and free improvisation.[1]
Golia lives in Los Angeles, California, and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. He has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Japan. In 1982 he founded the 37-piece Vinny Golia Large Ensemble to perform his compositions.
Golia has performed and/or recorded with many notable musicians, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.[2]
Golia also founded the jazz record label Nine Winds in 1977.[3][4]
Instruments
Golia performs on a wide array of instruments, including variants of the flute, English horn, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon and tarogato.
Ensembles
Golia has a formed a number of ensembles that showcase both his style of composition and improvisation. These groups range from the his Large Ensemble to a variety of mixed quintets, saxophone quartets, duos, sextets and arrangements for jazz and classical orchestras.[5] Most recently, Golia has performed and toured with his sextet which features some of the new voices in the Los Angeles free-improv scene.[6] The group, composed of Gavin Templeton (alto sax), Daniel Rosenboom (trumpet), Alexander Noice (guitar), Andrew Lessman (drums) and Jon Armstrong (bass), has given performances at many of the premiere U.S. new music venues and festivals including Angel City Jazz Festival at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre,[7] the Outsound New Music Summit in San Francisco,[8] and The Stone in New York.[9]
Discography
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- Creative Orchestra (Köln) 1978 (hatART, 1978 [1995])
With Alex Cline
- For People in Sorrow (Cryptogramophone, 2013)
With William Parker
- Sunrise in the Tone World (AUM Fidelity, 1997)
References
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External links
- Vinny Golia official site
- Vinny Golia page, Nine Winds Records website
- Vinny Golia page, Redline Park
- Fred Jung, "A Fireside Chat With Vinny Golia, All About Jazz (2005)
- Sebastien Moig, "Interview with Vinny Golia", JazzoSphère.
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- Avant-garde jazz musicians
- 1946 births
- American jazz saxophonists
- American saxophonists
- Bass clarinetists
- Living people
- Cor anglais players
- People from the Bronx
- American bassoonists
- American flautists
- CIMP artists
