Quizamba - Aaron Goldberg

well as with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Aaron is also currently a member of the groundbreaking Kurt Rosenwinkel group, and one-third of the cooperative OAM Trio. This international project features Israeli bassist Omer Avital and Catalan multi-percussionist Marc Miralta, and has released two albums entitled "Flow" and "Trilingual" on the Fresh Sound/New Talent label. OAM Trio most recently collaborated with Mark Turner on an album entitled "Live in Sevilla" on LOLA Records. Interested in the inroads jazz can make into society at large, Aaron is currently the musical director of 'All Souls at Sundown', a unique jazz and poetry series at All Souls Church in New York City. He is showcased each month along with a potpourri of the jazz world's up-and-coming new talent. In 2004 Aaron produced and performed in 'Jazz For America's Future', a NYC fundraising concert for Democratic Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign, featuring such artists as Savion Glover, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Christian McBride, Brad Mehldau and others. This event attracted widespread media coverage both inside and outside of the jazz world. Aaron has also been a clinician and educator at universities, conservatories and high schools worldwide. As a sideman he is perhaps best known for his work with the quartet of tenor saxophone phenomenon Joshua Redman, with whom he toured for three and a half years and recorded two albums for Warner Bros. Trumpeters Nicholas Payton, Tom Harrell and Freddie Hubbard, master drummer Al Foster, guitarist Peter Bernstein, vibraphonist Stefon Harris, and saxophonists Mark Turner, John Ellis and Eli Degibri continue to call on Aaron's services. In years past he has worked with the late great vocalist and first lady of jazz Betty Carter, saxophonists Michael Brecker, Kenny Garrett, George Coleman, Bill Pierce and Jimmy Greene, drummer Lenny White, bassist Buster Williams, vibraphonist Terry Gibbs and composers Guillermo Klein and Magali Souriau among others. Born in Boston, Massachusetts on April 30, 1974, Aaron began to study the piano at age seven. He discovered his love for jazz in high school at Milton Academy under the tutelage of master educator Bob Sinicrope. He later continued his studies with Jerry Bergonzi, and while still a teenager received awards from both Berklee College of Music and Downbeat Magazine. At the age of seventeen he embarked on an invaluable year of further training at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City. After returning to his hometown, Aaron entered the Boston jazz community in the summer of 1992 and soon began his first year at Harvard College. Subsequently he was awarded one of five Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Fellowships for 1993 by the International Association of Jazz Educators,/i>, and was named the winner of the 1993 National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Recognition and Talent Search. While attending Harvard he developed fruitful musical associations with peers at Berklee and New England Conservatory, and during the summers maintained his ties with his NYC collaborators. Aaron graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in June 1996, with a degree in History and Science and a concentration in Mind, Brain, and Behavior. During this period he enjoyed a long stint as the house pianist at Boston's historic Wally's Café, before relocating to his current residence in Brooklyn. His subsequent musical adventures have taught him to expect--and pursue--the unexpected.