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Ben Goldberg Ben Goldberg Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION Master of Arts in Music Composition Mills College, 1997 Bachelor of Arts in Music University of California Santa Cruz, 1985 Banff Jazz Workshop, Canada, 1991 National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan, 1974-1975 PRIVATE STUDIES ​ Rosario ​Mazzeo, 1983-1987 Joe Lovano, 1992 Joe Henderson, 1992 Steve Lacy, 1984 TEACHING University of California, Berkeley January 2016 – present Jazz Theory and Performance Conservatorio Manuel de Falla, Buenos Aires, Argentina One-week composition and improvisation workshop, 2016 Mills College, Oakland, California Chromatic Harmony, 2002 Clinics/Master Classes in Improvisation and Melodic Development UC Berkeley, Reed College, Vancouver Jazz Festival, University of Toulouse, etc. 1995 – present Private teaching studio 1990 - present Ben Goldberg Curriculum Vitae Page 2 SELECTED RECORDINGS (Performances of many of these works can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/user/BAGProductionRecords) LEADER / CO-LEADER ​ ​ ​ ​ Symphony No. 9 BAG Production, January 2020 ​ ​ ​ The Cool Philosophy of Ben Goldberg BAG Production, April 2020 ​ Firehouse Quintet BAG Production, June 2020 ​ ​ ​ ​ Music for an Avant-Garde Massage Parlour BAG Production, September 2020 ​ Good Day for Cloud Fishing (with Dean Young) Pyroclastic, 2019 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ PRACTITIONER BAG Production, 2018 ​ ​ ​ ​ Uncompahgre Ben Goldberg/Kirk Knuffke; Relative Pitch, 2018 ​ ​ ​ Title of Work BAG Production, 2017 ​ From the Granary BAG Production, 2017 ​ Ben Goldberg School BAG Production, 2017 ​ A Sibling Mystery – film soundtrack album, 2017 ​ ​ The Out Louds Tomas Fujiwara/Ben Goldberg/Mary Halvorson; Relative Pitch, 2016 ​ Knuckle Sandwich Invisible Guy; BAG Production, 2016 ​ DIALOGUE Myra Melford and Ben Goldberg; BAG Production, 2015 ​ Orphic Machine Royal Potato Family/BAG Production, 2015 ​ Worry Later BAG Production, 2014 ​ Unfold Ordinary Mind (featuring Nels Cline) BAG Production, 2013 ​ ​ Subatomic Particle Homesick Blues (with Joshua Redman, Ron Miles) BAG ​ Production, 2013 The Rain Is A Handsome Animal Tin Hat; New Amsterdam, 2012 ​ Foreign Legion Tin Hat; BAG Production, 2010 ​ BAAL – John Zorn’s Book of Angels, vol. 15 Ben Goldberg Quartet; Tzadik, 2010 ​ ​ Go Home (featuring Charlie Hunter) BAG Production, 2009 ​ Speech Communication Ben Goldberg Trio; Tzadik, 2009 ​ (Plays Monk) Ben Goldberg, Scott Amendola, Devin Hoff; Long Song, 2007 ​ The Sad Machinery of Spring Tin Hat; Rykodisc, 2007 ​ The Door, The Hat, The Chair, The Fact Cryptogramophone, 2006 ​ Short for Something New Klezmer Trio; Tzadik, 2000 ​ Ghost of Electricity Junk Genius; Songlines, 1999. ​ Twelve Minor Ben Goldberg Sextet; Avant, 1998. ​ What Comes Before Tzadik, 1998. ​ Junk Genius Knitting Factory Works, 1995. ​ Melt Zonk Rewire New Klezmer Trio; Tzadik, 1995. ​ Masks and Faces New Klezmer Trio; Nine Winds, 1991; reissued by Tzadik, 1996. ​ CLARINETIST Save Your Breath Kris Davis’ Infrasound; Clean Feed Records, 2015 ​ New Monastery: a view into the music of Andrew Hill Nels Cline; ​ Cryptogramophone, 2006. Diaspora Suite Steven Bernstein; Tzadik, 2008 ​ Bing, Bing, Bing Charlie Hunter Trio; Blue Note, 1995 ​ Ben Goldberg Curriculum Vitae Page 3 SOUNDTRACK Another Day at the Office, a film by Richard Linklater, 2019 ​ A Sibling Mystery, a film by Dan Erickson, 2017 ​ Men: A Love Story, a film by Mimi Chakarova, 2016 ​ My Old Lady (contributor), 2014 ​ Nebraska, a film by Alexander Payne (contributor) Paramount, 2013 ​ La Giusta Distanza (The Right Distance) Italy, 2007 ​ SELECTED RECENT PERFORMANCES 2020, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2014 Winter Jazz Fest, New York ​ 2019 National Sawdust, New York ​ 2019 Casa del Lago, Mexico City ​ 2019 Theatre Degollado, Guadalajara, Mexico ​ 2019, 2016 Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York ​ 2018, 2009 Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle ​ 2018, 2016 The Jazz Gallery, New York ​ 2019, 2017, 2014 Week-long residence, The Stone, New York ​ ​ 2018, 2017, 2015, 2012, 2011, 2007, 2006, 1997, 1995 San Francisco Jazz Festival 2018, 2014, 2013 Ars Nova Workshop, Philadelphia ​ 2018, 2017, 2014 Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Chicago ​ 2018 Firehouse 12, New Haven ​ 2017 Glatt & Verkehrt Festival, Austria ​ 2017 The Hungry Brain, Chicago ​ 2017 Edgefest, Ann Arbor ​ 2017 Chicago Jazz Festival 2017 Willisau Jazz Festival, Switzerland ​ 2017, 2016, 2014 (Le) Poisson Rouge, New York ​ 2017 Le Cri du Port, Marseilles, France ​ 2017 Le Moulin a Jazz, Vitrolles, France ​ 2017 Sacramento Philharmonic 2016 Kennedy Center, Washington, DC ​ 2016, 2008 Mass MOCA, Massachusetts ​ 2016 Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires ​ 2016, 2014, 2006 Roulette, New York ​ 2015 Constellation, Chicago ​ 2015, 2012, 2010 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco ​ 2014 Buenos Aires Jazz Festival 2014 Jazz Art Festival, Katowice, Poland ​ 2014, 2005 Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon, Austria ​ 2014 Greenwich House Music Series, New York ​ 2014, 2011, 2010, 2009 Saalfelden International Jazz Festival, Austria ​ 2013, 2010 The Outpost, Albuquerque, New Mexico ​ 2013 Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco ​ 2013 Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas ​ 2012, 2010, 2007 Symphony Space, New York ​ 2012 Montalvo Arts Center 2012 Novara Jazz Festival, Italy ​ Ben Goldberg Curriculum Vitae Page 4 2012, 2011, 2007 deYoung Museum of Art, San Francisco ​ 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Utah ​ 2011, 2010 Banlieue Bleues, Paris ​ 2010, 2008 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles ​ 2010 Musee d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme, Paris ​ 2010 Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2009 Ojai Festival 2009 Austin Chamber Music Festival 2009, 2007 Jazz Standard, New York ​ 2009, 2008 Angel City Jazz Festival, Los Angeles ​ 2008 Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Healdsburg ​ 2008 Mass MOCA, Massachussets ​ 2008 Unlimited, Wels, Austria ​ 2007, 2006 DOM Cultural Center, Moscow ​ 2006, 1995 North Sea Jazz Festival 2006 Roulette, New York ​ 2005 London Jazz Festival 2005 Merkin Concert Hall, New York ​ 2005 Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum, Boston ​ COMMISSIONS, AWARDS 2019, 2018, 2017 Downbeat Critics’ Poll: named #5 Clarinetist 2018, 2016 San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music: Recording Grant ​ 2017 Composing Residency, Civitella Rainieri, Italy ​ ​ 2016 Downbeat Critics’ Poll: named #5 Clarinetist, #6 Rising Star ​ Composer, #9 Rising Star Arranger 2016 Granted Residency for Summer 2017 at Civitella Rainieri, Italy 2015 Downbeat Critics’ Poll: named #3 Clarinetist ​ 2014 USArtists International Touring Grant ​ 2013, 2011 Downbeat Critics’ Poll: named #1 Rising Star Clarinetist ​ 2013, 2010, 2008 Nominated for the Alpert Award in the Arts ​ 2013 The Shifting Foundation: grant to record Orphic Machine ​ 2011 Fellow, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Composers Lab ​ 2010 Chamber Music America: New Jazz Works Commission ​ 2009 French American Cultural Exchange Grant ​ 2007 deYoung Museum of Art commission ​ 2007 Aaron Copland Fund for Music award ​ 1996, 1993 National Endowment for the Arts: Jazz Performance Grant ​ 1992 National Endowment for the Arts: Jazz Study Grant ​ HAS PERFORMED WITH Andrew Hill, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Mary Halvorson, Tom Rainey, Charlie Hunter, Ron Miles, Joshua Redman, Bobby Bradford, Don Byron, Nels Cline, Mark Feldman, Myra Melford, Ellery Eskelin, Zeena Parkins, Mark Dresser, Donny McCaslin, Vijay Iyer Ben Goldberg Curriculum Vitae Page 5 EXCERPTS FROM REVIEWS [Goldberg’s music] “conveys a feeling of joyous research into the basics of polyphony and collective improvising, the constant usefulness of musicians intuitively coming together and pulling apart.” Ben Ratliff The New York Times "Some of Goldberg's new tunes sound like forgotten pop songs — an air of familiarity that keeps the music's feet on the ground even when the improvisers start to fly away. Kevin Whitehead Fresh Air with Terry Gross “We’ve seen no shortage of smart attempts to bring jazz and poetry into dialogue, but ​ Good Day For Cloud Fishing, the fine new album by clarinetist Ben Goldberg, ups the ante.” Nate Chinen WBGO Radio “But maybe don’t worry about all that: Even if you never knew the conceit, there would ​ be plenty to love about this music. On ‘Reality’ (inspired by Young’s melancholic poem of the same name), hear Goldberg and Cline alternate between embracing and giving each other space, as if their instruments were bodies full of heat and pulse, shyness and desire.” Giovanni Russonello The New York Times “Both albums [Unfold Ordinary Mind and Subatomic Particle Homesick Blues] mark ​ ​ ​ ​ a concerted effort by the reedist to bring out his more melodic side, and on that count he succeeds magnificently, delivering some of the most gorgeous and pleasing compositions in his career.” Peter Margasak Chicago Reader Unfold Ordinary Mind and Subatomic Particle Homesick Blues "offer a portrait of a ​ ​ ​ uniquely restless artist that two CDs still can’t entirely capture." Chris Barton Los Angeles Times "An album this fun and eventful easily stands on its own, but together with Unfold ​ Ordinary Mind, Subatomic Particle Homesick Blues traces the evolution of an artist ​ ​ ​ who now seems to find beautiful melodies at the end of every path." Andrew Gilbert The California Report Ben Goldberg Curriculum Vitae Page 6 "Whether divining inspiration from past antecedents or modern innovations, Goldberg's compositional purview is consistently imaginative, as demonstrated by the stylistic diversity heard on these two releases." Troy Collins All About Jazz, February 18, 2013 "Goldberg's virtuosity on clarinet has been long established, but together these two albums serve notice to those who weren't paying attention that he's also a formidable composer, arranger and leader." [Four stars awarded to each record] Downbeat Magazine "Clarinetist Ben Goldberg sometimes gets so out front with his musical vision, it takes years to catch up with him." S. Victor Aaron Something Else Reviews "Knotted and occasionally spooky composition marked by dazzling interplay." Chris Barton Reviewing Orphic Machine in concert ​ ​ Los Angeles Times .
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