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Yaron Herman

Yaron Herman Trio

Yaron Herman Trio
@ the Pizza Express Jazz Club
21 November 2007

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Biography

Yaron Herman was born in July 1981 and only began playing the piano at the age of 16 after a basketball accident put an end to the high hopes pinned on him in international sporting circles.

He learned to play piano under the masterful guidance of Opher Brayer, following a revolutionary method based on philosophy, mathematics, psychology, etc. The results are certainly unique in the history of music and piano playing. Herman would eventually perform at concerts in the most prestigious venues in Israel.

At 18, Herman left for Boston where he intended to attend the Berklee College School of Music. However the highly competitive environment, which left no space for individual fulfilment, failed to inspire the eager young scholar. Herman decided to return to Tel-Aviv two months later. The stopover in Paris on the return journey became prolonged as the musicians he met that night for a jam session hired him on the spot. He decided to stay on indefinitely.

Herman recorded his first album “Takes 2 to know 1” on the Sketch label with the drummer Sylvain Ghio when he was 21. The duo piano and drums surprised and astounded, attracting unanimous critical acclaim.

What is even more surprising is the depth of his approach to playing the piano. He developed a theory of musical improvisation called ‘Real Time Composition’, which led Laurent Cugny to invite him to run a course of lectures at the Sorbonne in Paris.

In June 2005 Herman was awarded both prizes, solo and with the group Newtopia, in the Concours de la Défense in Paris.

Herman recorded his first solo album on the brand new LABORIE Jazz label in 2005 after several weeks spent living and working on the project in the Château de La Borie. Here he presented his concept ‘Themes and Variations’, where every melody, each theme hidden in our collective subconscious is the playfully creative pretext for re-creation, improvisation and invention.

Herman went on to tour Europe, South America and China (he was the first jazz pianist to give a concert in the Forbidden City in Beijing).

Herman was awarded Talent Jazz Adami 2007 and was invited to the Festival de Jazz de Montréal, the Nice Jazz Festival, the Festival de la Villette and to the London Jazz Festival.

Yaron Herman

Yaron Herman

Yaron Herman

Yaron Herman

Yaron Herman Trio

Yaron Herman Trio

Yaron Herman Trio


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