Leo Yablans - Quartets* (2022) Hi-Res

 

Artist: Leo Yablans
Title: Quartets*
Year: 2022 Leo Yablans
Genre: Jazz
Quality: Hi-Res / 24bit-48 KHz

 

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1. Lotus Flower (in F)
2. Remembrance (in f#)
3. Ether (Whole-Tone Scale)
4. Lapis Lazuli (in Ab | Part 1)
5. Lapis Lazuli (in Ab | Part 2)
6. Lapis Lazuli (in Ab | Part 3)

 

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Leo Yablans is an award-winning saxophonist, composer, and writer. In his music, he seeks to bridge aesthetics of jazz and classical music, combining consonance, dissonance, counterpoint, polyphony, and improvisation, among many other styles, to create a unique blend of music that transcends genre. This was salient in one of his most recent works, “With Oakleaf Crowns Shadowing Their Brows,” a piece for tenor saxophone and string quintet, which is currently under consideration for multiple national young composers’ awards. His 2020 work "Threnody for Two Million Lost Souls," a piece for amplified string quartet, was a winner of the 2022 Hill’s Studio International Composition Competition and finalist for the 2021 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award. In August 2022, he will participate as a composer in the São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival in Brazil, where his work will be performed by the internationally-renowned 0 0 1 2 Trio. In October 2022, he will have a piece performed in Paris, France, as part of the Infuse Concert Series. As a saxophonist, Leo has performed in some of America’s most renowned venues, such as the Beacon Theater, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and MoMA New York City, has played alongside musicians such as Kwami Coleman, and has recorded for artists such as Eric Gabriel and Banana Club. He also performed in the 2015 Panama Jazz Festival as part of the only high school group in the festival lineup. He is close to releasing an improvised EP for four tenor saxophones (all performed and layered by himself), called Quartets*, which utilizes an original composition style called “Improvised Counterpoint.” He studies saxophone and composition with Brooklyn-based composer Noah Kaplan (Ph.D, Princeton University). As a prose writer, Leo has completed multiple academic papers on music and cultural philosophy. One of these works, 2021’s “The Exile Aesthetic: How Jewish Composers Persecuted by the Third Reich Used Music to Adapt to a New Life and Challenge the Nazis,” was completed with funding from NYU Gallatin’s Dean’s Award for Summer Research, and is now under consideration for publishing. His interdisciplinary senior thesis, “The Musical Cosmopolitan: How Miles Davis Utilized Cross-Genre Jazz to Elevate the Social Image of the Black Performer,” supervised by Dr. Brigid Cohen (Ph.D., Harvard University), received honors, and is under consideration for publishing. Leo has also independently published multiple op-eds on American politics and culture, and a journalistic profile of one of Copenhagen’s countercultural media publishers. Leo is a recent graduate NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where he studied the connections between jazz, philosophy, and cultural studies. At NYU, Leo achieved top marks, winning multiple research awards and receiving honors on his senior thesis, before graduating summa cum laude. Upon his graduation from NYU Gallatin, Leo was named as the only student performer at his May 2022 commencement ceremony at New York’s Beacon Theater, where he performed a work from his upcoming EP, Quartets*, and was given the school’s Léo Bronstein Homage Award in recognition of exceptional artistic and scholarly achievement. He is currently based in New York City, and will begin his Masters in English Literature at the University of Oxford in October 2022.