Songbroker Welcomes Edward Ware
Songbroker is very pleased to welcome composer, musician and teacher Edward Ware to the fold.
Creator, founder and director of Mad Lab Music, New Zealander Edward Ware has been involved with music and performance all his life, from early childhood piano lessons and choir through the discipline of teenage dance training and competitions, to the rigorous study of drum set and classical percussion which naturally led him into the artistic life of a professional musician and composer from his early twenties.
Living in New York since 1990, he has worked with a countless array of musicians, amassing a wealth of experience in various styles of jazz, improvised, classical and new music from the heavily notated to the completely free.
In the mid '90's, Ware was asked by New York’s then leading Avant Garde jazz venue ‘The Knitting Factory’ to be the drummer for the clubs first live internet broadcast from Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival performing with British saxophonist Courtney Pine and Miles Davis’ percussionist Mino Cinelu. Another notable invitation for Ware was being the first jazz musician and composer to be officially asked to teach and perform at the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China.
He has recorded for many independent labels including Knitting Factory Works, CRI and CIMP. His own independent release in 2001, 'Ed Ware's Tree', received critical acclaim including a four-star review in the January 2001 issue of Down Beat magazine, with that trio being engaged for two seasons by Carnegie Hall.
Ware continued to study composition (Masters in Composition from City University of New York 2004), theory and analysis privately (with Paul Caputo) and in recent years has turned his creative energies increasingly towards writing. He has written for independent theatre and film projects as well as on commission for groups such as bassist Peter Herbert’s Vienna based group ‘Bass Instinct’.
He currently divides his time between New York and Barcelona where he continues to compose, record, teach and perform.
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