EVERY MUSICAL INSTRUMENT REQUIRES AN INNOVATOR,
AN EXPERIMENTER, A VIRTUOSO TO EXPLORE ITS POTENTIAL,
EXPLOIT THE POSSIBILITIES AND TAKE ITS SOUND TO A NEW LEVEL. FOR THE DULCIMER - AN INSTRUMENT THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR 2,500 YEARS - THAT GROUND [+]EVERY MUSICAL INSTRUMENT REQUIRES AN INNOVATOR,
AN EXPERIMENTER, A VIRTUOSO TO EXPLORE ITS POTENTIAL,
EXPLOIT THE POSSIBILITIES AND TAKE ITS SOUND TO A NEW LEVEL. FOR THE DULCIMER - AN INSTRUMENT THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR 2,500 YEARS - THAT GROUNDBREAKING MUSICIAN IS JOE VENEGONI
PERFORMER * COMPOSER * EDUCATOR * PRODUCER
Joe Venegoni has received international critical acclaim as a master musician, composer, percussionist and dulcimer virtuoso. In addition to headlining as leader of the Joe Venegoni Jazz Quintet, Joe performs and records with such international stars as Jiebing Chen and Yangqin Zhao of China, Shweta Jhaveri and Poolivar Shrinivasan of India, plus American artists Fareed Haque, Michael Manring, Carl Weingarten, Todd Mosby and the improvisational ensemble, Cloud Chamber.
As a composer, Joe has created scores for a variety of dance companies and independent choreographers including Sue Li-Jue's Facing East Dance and Music, Robert Moses' Kin, Janice Garrett, Kulintang Arts, Arturo Fernandez's Left Coast Dance, and the Gash/Voight Dance Theatre. In 1999, Joe was presented with the Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Best Ensemble Performance, recognizing his work with Dance Artist, Robert Moses and Cellist, Dan Reiter. Joe has received two additional "Izzie" nominations for his performance in Facing East Dance and Music's, Rice Women.
Joe is currently an artist-in-residence at Stanford University and the ODC Performing Arts Center in San Francisco. He is a former instructor with Washington University, Sonoma State University, and the Margaret Jenkins Performance Gallery School, San Francisco. As a guest artist, Joe has performed and conducted workshops at the Conservatoire National Superier et Musique et de Danse~Paris, the University of California at Berkeley and the San Francisco Ballet. He has performed master classes for the companies of Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Janice Garrett, David Parson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Margaret Jenkins, Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, ODC/SF, DV8 of London, and the Rambert Dance Co. of London.
As a producer, Joe has directed multiple CD recording projects, overseeing all aspects of production from concept to distribution. In the early 90's Venegoni created and produced the Bridge Performing Arts
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