An Evening with Mark Lommano and Dafnis Prieto

***Please note: This event will take place at the Books & Books in Coral Gables at 265 Aragon Ave. Tickets are FREE and books will be available for purchase at the event.

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An adept improviser can find ways forward amid impasse, agency amid oppression, and community amid division. The editors and contributors to The Improviser’s Classroom present an array of critical approaches intended to reimagine pedagogy through the prisms of activism, reciprocity, and communal care.
Demonstrating how improvisation can inform scenes of teaching and learning, this volume also outlines how improvisatory techniques offer powerful, if not vital, tools for producing connection, creativity, accompaniment, reciprocity, meaningful revelation, and lifelong curiosity.
The Improviser's Classroom champions activist pedagogies and the public work essential for creating communities bound together by reciprocal care and equity.
Contributors: Sibongile Bhebhe, Judit Csobod, Michael Dessen, jashen edwards, Kate Galloway, Tomie Hahn, Petro Janse van Vuuren, Lauren Michelle Levesque, George Lipsitz, Rich Marsella, Tracy McMullen, Hafez Modirzadeh, Ed Sarath, Joe Sorbara, Jesse Stewart, Ellen Waterman, Carey West, and the editors

Mark Lomanno is a jazz pianist, ethnomusicologist, and faculty member in the Musicology Department at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. They are former Chair of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Improvisation Section and founder of “The Rhythm of Study,” a public forum that celebrates jazz musicians’ work in the arts, academia, and community activism. A former Mellon Foundation and Consortium for Faculty Diversity fellow, Lomanno has also been awarded several fellowships for his ethnographic and performance work in the Canary Islands.
Dafnis Prieto’s various awards and honors include a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, a GRAMMY Award, and the Jazz Journalists Association’s Up & Coming Musician of the Year in 2006. Prieto has performed at many national and international music festivals as a bandleader. Also a gifted educator, Prieto has conducted numerous master classes, clinics, and workshops around the world. He was on the jazz studies faculty at New York University from 2005 to 2014, and in 2015 joined the faculty of the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, where he directs the esteemed Frost Latin Jazz Orchestra.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, United States