Fire of the gods
David Arner fires up the Prometheus Project As the myth of Prometheus symbolized the steadfast strength that resists oppression, David Arner’s Prometheus Project starkly opposes the hegemony of...
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A Supremely Gifted Pianist Review of “Live from the Center” The Hudson Valley music community is certainly lucky to have David Arner. Besides being a supremely gifted pianist the Port Ewen resident...
View ArticleVirtuoso of the heart and mind
Chronogram review of Live from the Center Deep Listening Gallery’s adventurous Thursday night jazz and improvisation concerts are organized by the brilliant pianist David Arner. Despite scant pay,...
View ArticleOut/In the Open: Exploratory Piano Trio Music
A pianistic touch that conveys intensity, even when dancing lightly over the keyboard Pianist David Arner suddenly appears to be everywhere. He’s released four different recordings in the past year:...
View ArticleGoing Where the Love Is
Deep Listening Space (Kingston, NY) Attending this first concert of 2006 was an easy choice for me to make. It was the very idea of the duo performance of David Arner on piano and Michael Bisio on...
View ArticleDowntown Music Gallery Review of Out/In the Open
One of this year’s best piano trio offerings. Featuring David Arner on his 1968 Steinway L piano, Michael Bisio on contrabass and Jay Rosen on drums. I hadn’t heard of pianist David Arner before four...
View ArticleOctober Festival of Words and Music
One of the Valley’s most consistently inventive and stimulating musical improvisors. Whether glissading over the keyboard or wailing on the balafon, David Arner is one of the Valley’s most consistently...
View ArticleWAMC-FM on David Arner
“David Arner has done what many have thought undoable. He has welded the formalism of a commanding technique to the wildness of Jazz and the seductiveness of creativity. The result is a musical...
View ArticleImprovised & Otherwise Festival 2005
Choreographer Susan Osberg’s Workwith Company As the ultra gentrification of Manhattan continues, “downtown” artists have responded with an amoeboid exodus into the hinterlands of Queens and Brooklyn,...
View ArticleExtraordinarily Rich
CD Title: Live from the Center Exercising both the inside and outside of the piano means that you are dealing with the entire instrument. It means that you are dealing with all of the piano’s...
View ArticleFraming the Gestures
David Arner in Concert Venue: Performing Arts Center (Rhinebeck, NY) December 26, 2003 – On the day after Christmas (how appropriate the date), David Arner gave a solo performance at the Performing...
View ArticleThe Mitchell-Ruff Duo
To jazz musicians who are well aware that there exists an underground history of the music they love, the names or Dwike Mitchell and Willie Ruff have great significance. No fanfare accompanies the...
View ArticleAn Innovative Pianist
David Arner has built a reputation as an innovative pianist and a proponent of spontaneous composition. He filters both skills into his music and adds a healthy dose of surprise through changes in...
View ArticleA Sterling Example of Arner Pianism at its Best
The David Arner Trio: Out/In the Open, 2007 Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Remarkable piano trio interplay throughout Pianist David Arner is a musical voice that does not fit easily into the various...
View ArticleCadence Review of “Live from the Center”
His process will transfix and awe. Arner is an intense, introspective pianist who methodically constructs sound portraits of shattering dimensions [on Live from the Center]. He submerges himself into...
View Article“The Birds of Central Park” at the STONE
The Logic of Birds The degree to which David Arner liberates himself from pre-determined constraints and sends it soaring might only be imaginable if you heard his concert of improvised piano music at...
View ArticleAn Artist of Subtlety and Depth
Porgy/Bess Act 1: The David Arner Trio and Their Rechanneling of Porgy and Bess David Arner has a pianistic fulminosity (it’s a kind of abundance) that comes across with the substantial release...
View ArticleA masterpiece of freely improvised duets
I certainly intend to play something from Connie Crothers’ new release SPONTANEOUS SUITES FOR TWO PIANOS which is a masterpiece of freely improvised duets with David Arner — a 4-cd set that I’ve only...
View ArticleDavid Arner – Stars Aligned
Not five minutes from the campus of Bard College is Barrytown, a shady hamlet of Red Hook tucked along the edge the Hudson. Sitting there like a tiny toy is the area’s former post office and general...
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