Mat Maneri

Mat Maneri is an American violist, violinist and composer working in avant-garde jazz and improvised music, born in Brooklyn in 1969. He is the son of saxophonist and composer Joe Maneri, whose microtonal music he grew up playing. He began the violin at five and studied at the New England Conservatory. He has recorded for ECM as a soloist, with his father and with pianist Lucian Ban. With Joe Maneri he recorded Three Men Walking (with Joe Morris), Tales of Rohnlief and Angles of Repose (with Barre Phillips) and Blessed for ECM, where his solo album Trinity appeared in 2001.