Diana Miron & Gabriel Zucker - LIVE in Zadar
Diana Miron and Gabriel Zucker first crossed paths in 2021, when they played together for the
first time in the semi-haunted Bucharest home of a mysterious socialite known only as The
Count. He happened to own a grand piano - and a taste for red wine - which made it the perfect
setting for an impromptu sonic séance.
The echoes of that night still resonate - both in their memories and on one of Gabriel Zucker’s
discographic releases.
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Gabriel Zucker - piano, voice synths (
http://www.gabrielzucker.com/bio.html)
“Piano firebrand” (Brooklyn Rail) Gabriel Zucker is a pianist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist
from New York, whose work combines maximalist compositions with the progressive
improvisation of New York’s creative music scene. His music has received two ASCAP
composition awards, and has been praised in Downbeat (4.5 stars), All About Jazz (4.5 stars),
Stereogum, Jazzwise, and the New York City Jazz Record. A Yale graduate and Rhodes
Scholar, Zucker has performed throughout New York at such venues as Carnegie Hall, The
Stone, Roulette, and the Jazz Gallery, as well as in 22 countries around the world.
Zucker’s groundbreaking large ensemble, the indie jazz orchestra The Delegation, was born at
the Banff Jazz and Creative Music Workshop. The group’s debut record, a twelve-movement
composition titled Evergreen (Canceled World), was supported by an American Composers
Forum JFund grant and released in October 2016 on ESP-Disk' to critical acclaim. The
ensemble’s sophomore release, Leftover Beats From The Edges Of Time, was released in
September 2021 on ESP-Disk'. Zucker’s small-ensemble touring incarnations of The Delegation
have performed in over a dozen countries.Zucker maintains a prolific activity with a range of
other projects. In November 2018, ESP-Disk' released Zucker’s third studio record, Weighting,
an extended composition inspired by Rachel Kushner’s novel The Flamethrowers, featuring
Tyshawn Sorey, Adam O’Farrill, and Eric Trudel. The record was widely praised, recognized as
a Debut of the Year by the New York City Jazz Record, listed among the Best of 2018 by All
About Jazz, and featured as a runner-up in Stereogum’s Best Jazz of 2018 list. Zucker and
Sorey collaborated again in 2018 with the premiere of Zucker’s new duo New York, USA, 2018
at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall.
Diana Miron - voice, violin, viola, electronics - dianamiron.bandcamp.com
Currently living and working in Bucharest, Diana Miron (°1989) is an artist with a long
classical/contemporary music background, looking to manifest a new space with each
piece. Her interests for visual arts and media variety appear naturally, starting with
music studies at the age of 5. Influenced by a restrictive socio-political context, she
begins contouring a desire for liberation from stylistic barriers, translated through
sound exploration, (solo/collective) improvisation and performance.
Her projects include soundtrack composition and sound design for theater shows,film, vocal coaching, music workshops, video art and performative installations.
Diana Miron uses instant composition through the phenomenological lens of
Romanian Hyperspectralism, as she is since 2015 part of the Hyperion International
Ensemble founded and conducted by composers Ana-Maria Avram and Iancu
Dumitrescu. Collaborating with Romanian and international artists and constantly
developing her own language for violin playing and vocal expression through
extended techniques, she performs in different countries around the EU and festivals
such as CTM Berlin, City Sonic Brussels, Berlin Atonal, Sacrum Profanum Krakow
etc.
Her works directly respond and connect to each specific environment to highlight the
clarity of the present moment, thus establishing a strong relation to objects/entities.
Inspired by the infinite possibilities of sound textures, new mentalities, virtuality and
rejecting an objective truth and mass cultural narratives, she approaches a wide scale
of subjects in a multi-layered way, involving the viewer simultaneously as part of the
creative act.
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