WALTER LURE’S L.A.M.F and  MICK ROSSI 2019 JAPAN TOUR

Mick Rossi

Mick Rossi’s career has long been defined by the inability to comfortably define him or his work. Performing diverse and progressive work rooted in the New York Downtown scene at venues including the Knitting Factory, The Stone, MoMA Spectrum NYC (Outliers Series), and most recently in-residence at The New School and the Philip Glass Institute, Rossi is celebrated as “an exemplar of the cross-fertilization between jazz and classical music worlds" and "one of the most lucid, original and creative minds of the New York scene" (All About Jazz). He is simultaneously a longtime member of the Philip Glass Ensemble as well as the Paul Simon band as pianist and percussionist, showcasing not only technical proficiency but capable of divergent idiomatic disciplines. He has appeared on eleven recordings with Philip Glass, and seven with Paul Simon (including “Koyaanisqatsi Live with the NY Philharmonic” and “Austin City Limits” respectively). Rossi has also conducted for Mr. Glass, most recently “Book of Longing” (Sydney Opera House), “Einstein On The Beach (Olivier Award)” and "Dracula" with Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet. Rossi has served as music director and curator of the MATA Festival, music director of the Public Theater's production of “The Bacchae” (dir. JoAnne Akalaitis), percussionist with Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson at Carnegie Hall, conductor and co-orchestrator of Renée Fleming’s “Dark Hope’” and is currently producing the recording of the opera “Violet Fire” (BAM / Jon Gibson). Recent feature articles include The Sydney Morning Herald (“A prodigiously gifted musician and composer”) and Keyboard Magazine (“Pyrotechnics with Paul Simon”).

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