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ianist, drummer/percussionist, composer (and long-time Philip Glass collaborator) Mick Rossi is known for his diverse, progressive work in the New York Downtown scene, and has been described as “an exemplar of the cross-fertilization between jazz and classical music worlds...the smile-creating mix of humor, surprise, gorgeous sounds and virtuosity...relentlessly pressing, twisting and turning...an assuredness and logic that feel inevitable, despite the almost constant surprises," and "one of the most lucid, original and creative minds of the New York scene, and long-time collaborator with Philip Glass." (All About Jazz). Recent recordings include “They Have A Word For Everything“ (Knitting Factory), “Nosferatu” (Dreambox), “Inside The Sphere“ (Cadence), “New Math” (ToneScience), and “One Block From Planet Earth” (OmniTone), about which Down Beat gives “Four Stars” and All About Jazz describes as “Life relishing and unpretentiously profound.” Rossi’s music has been spotlighted on numerous top-ten lists, including All About Jazz, Downtown Music Gallery, and Village Voice Choices. His ninth recording “Songs From The Broken Land” for solo piano was just released on Orange Mountain Music. In addition, Rossi music directed and conducted the Public Theater's Shakespeare Festival production of “The Bacchae” (directed by JoAnne Akalaitis) in Central Park. He has served as music director and curator of the MATA Festival in New York (for which he was featured in TimeOutNY), just completed his third string quartet which was premiered this summer at Merkin Hall's Tribeca New Music Festival by the JACK QT, recently conducted Philip Glass’s “Book Of Longing” in Milan, Melbourne, and the Sydney Opera House, and was soloist with the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. Other recent Glass projects include “Orion,” “Music in 12-Parts,” and “Einstein On The Beach” at Carnegie Hall, as well numerous tours in a chamber trio with Glass and Wendy Sutter.
A longtime Philip Glass collaborator/ensemble member as pianist, percussionist
and conductor - currently touring with both Paul Simon and Glass - Rossi has
also performed and recorded all over the world with artists including Alex
Acuña, Steven Bernstein, Theo Bleckman, Angela Bofill, Kelly Clarkson,
Leonard Cohen, Dave Douglas, Mark Dresser, Kermit Driscoll, Billy Drewes,
Peter Erskine, Renee Fleming, Eric Friedlander, Vinny Golia, Eddie Gomez,
Hall and Oates, Gerry Hemingway, Peter Herbert, Russ Johnson, Carla Kihlstedt,
Andy Laster, The Mahavishnu Project, Pat Martino, Randy Newman, Jenny Scheinman,
Chris Schlarb, Carly Simon, Wadada Leo Smith, Andrew Sterman, Foday Suso,
Johnnie Valentino, Cuong Vu, and Wendy Sutter, among others. Performances
include the Knitting Factory, Montreux, and North Sea jazz festivals, MoMA,
WNYC’s New Sounds with John Schaefer, NPR’s All Things Considered,
WKCR’s Musicians Show, John Zorn’s The Stone, Tonic, Joe’s
Pub, Carnegie Hall, Jazz At Lincoln Center, Iridium, Barbes, Roulette, Metropolitan
Opera, Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Ballet Theater, Saturday Night Live,
Jay Leno, David Letterman and The Colbert Report. Recent films/TV include
"Bored To Death" (HBO), "Delmar" (Matt Dine), “The
Vagina Monologues” (HBO), “Standing In The Shadows Of Motown”
(Artisan), and his scores for the award winning independent films “Born
Again” (Markie Hancock), “The Other Side Of The River,”
and “Journey” (both by Lin Chien Ping).
