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Denman Maroney
Composer/pianist Denman Maroney is known for his unique hyperpiano style, which involves exciting the strings directly with various objects while working the keyboard; his polytemporal constructions, which involve articulating several pulses at once; and his long and fruitful association with bassist Mark Dresser, with whom he currently tours in a trio with flutist Matthias Ziegler.
Maroney’s discography includes: Billabong, with Hans Tammen ("endangered" guitar); Fire Song with Earl Howard (saxophone and synthesizer); Hyperpiano (solo piano); Vision Volume One with Mark Dresser, Earl Howard (sax) and Kevin Norton (drums); Mark Dresser's Force Green with Dave Douglas (trumpet), Theo Bleckmann (voice) and Phil Haynes (drums); Mark Dresser's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with Dave Douglas; A Confederacy of Dances Vol. 2 with Earl Howard; Tambastics with Robert Dick (flutes), Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway (drums); and Stockhausen Performed by the Negative Band with Earl Howard, J. Paul Taylor (synth), David Simons (percussion), Mike Fink (percussion), Jon Weisberger (electronics), and Carl Stone (electronics).
Maroney has received grants from: the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to compose for Medicine Show's productions of Jack Agueros' The Sea of Chairs and e.e. cummings' HIM, Yale Summer School of Music & Art (YSSMA) for a composer-in-residence fellowship, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for a Roulette commission, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) for a composition fellowship, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust for a Tambastics commission, Jerome Robbins Foundation for a Nimbus Dance Theater commission, and Meet the Composer for a Gamelan Son of Lion commission.
In addition to those already mentioned Maroney has worked
with many fine musicians including Tim Berne, Jane Ira Bloom, Jon Deak,
Shelley Hirsch, John King, Garrett List, Roger Miller, Michael Moore,
Bob Ostertag, William Parker, Bobby Previte, Herb Robertson, Mary Rowell,
Mike Sarin, Ed Schuller, Elliot Sharp and Peter Zummo, and dance and theater
artists Davidson Lloyd,
Sin Cha Hong, Tom Keegan, Tom Lillard, Erin Martin, Wendy Osserman and
Mel Wong.
Maroney was educated at Cal. Inst. of the Arts (MFA ’74),
Bennington College and Williams College (BA ’71). His teachers included
John Bergamo, Alan Chaplin, Bill Dixon, Jimmy Garrison, Leonid Hambro,
Ingram Marshall, Steven Mosko, Morton
Subotnick, James Tenney and Ki Wasitadipuro.
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