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Jazz Improv Magazine
"Vana is a highly polished technical whiz, whose vocabulary is brimming with complex lines, flourishes, runs that traverse the range of the piano, and contemporary harmonic approaches. He possesses a polished sense of rhythm in the tradition of prior masters."
Keyboard Magazine
"Imagine recombining the musical DNA of Herbie, Keith, and Chick with a Rio samba band and you’ve got a notion of what piano phenom Werner “Vana” Gierig’s latest CD is like. [...] an abundance of fresh compositional brainstorms for revitalizing the piano trio. No moment is rote; and even the brash experiments are elegant. I’d steal all his good ideas if I had virtuosic technique."
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Vana Trio plus Strings
Jazz and Classical Group
Vana Trio plus Strings incorporates string players into Vana Gierig's Jazz trio, performing special arrangements of Vana's original compositions. These can be just vioin and cello, or an entire string quartet. Vana also writes for larger ensembles, but the Trio plus violin and cello has found especially great resonance in concerts performed in New York, Paris and Portugal.
The arrangements include a wide variety of string writing styles from very lyrical, to world and rhythmically exciting pasages. These in turn mix with the jazzy sound of Vana's New York based trio.
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About Vana Gierig
Werner "Vana" Gierig is one of New York's premier jazz pianists and composers. His award-winning, virtuosic performance style and musical direction has been recognized worldwide and has been integral to many international tours and recordings by artists such as Regina Carter, Rachelle Ferrell, Lena Horne, Ute Lemper, George Howard, Special EFX, Najee, Warren Hill, Will Downing and many others.
Two years ago, Vana was presented by legendary bassist Eddie Gomez as an outstanding next generation pianist in a special 3-day presentation at the Iridium Jazz Club in Manhattan. He consequently sold out two shows at the New York Blue Note and opened up for Dionne Warwick with his critically acclaimed quartet called Vana Trio plus Brazilian Percussion, a unique mix of musical cultures, mixing classic jazz piano trio with New York funk, Brazilian, as well as European influences. He has since been touring special projects evolving around this core Vana Trio, such as the Vana Trio plus Brazilian Percussion, as well as his new project of the Vana Trio plus Strings. He has been presenting both, most recently in concerts in Istanbul, Lisbon, Espinho (Portugal) and New York.
After his critically acclaimed debut CD Small Regrets and the follow-up A New Day (Twinz Records), which charted for weeks in the top of the Jazz Radio Charts, Vana is working on several releases this year. Promotional copies of his live CD have just been shipped and he is working on a DVD release, as well an upcoming studio recording, involving Vana's group plus Strings.
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