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Biographical Data
Ohad Talmor was born in 1970, in Lyon, France of Israeli parents. He grew up in Geneva Switzerland, in a house with classical music on at all times. At age five, he started studying piano at the Geneva conservatory.
Upon moving to Florida in 1987 as an exchange student , Ohad took up the saxophone after falling in love with the little jazz he had heard before leaving Switzerland. Following his return to Europe, he moved along a musical path which led him first to study musicology at the University in parallel to gigging around town. Eventually, performing took over studying as Ohad immersed himself into the European jazz scene. Parallel to his activities as a performer on the saxophones/clarinet, Ohad took on a growing passion for composing and arranging which eventually led him in 1995 to the Manhattan School of Music on a full scholarship. He received his Diploma in Composition in 1997 and since then is continuing to live in Brooklyn, NY, performing, composing, arranging - and sometimes acting - in a wealth of different projects.
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Facts
Since moving to New York in 1995, Ohad Talmor has put together Five different groups for which he has written distinctive repertoire as well as co-leading two distinct projects: musical director of the Lee Konitz Nonet and the Steve Swallow Sextet.
Ohad's own groups are: "NewsReel" - Ohad Talmor 5tet ,The Other Quartet (co-leads with trumpeter Russ Johnson), the MOB Trio, the Ohad Talmor 7tet (a/ka/ 7 Déjà Vus) and Scent of the Morning Dew. For more on these projects, click here.
Ohad Talmor has performed and/or recorded, among others, with Steve Swallow, Jason Moran, Dave Douglas, Paul Motian, Joe Lovano, Chris Potter, Billy Hart, Carla Bley Big Band, Ray Anderson, Curtis Fowlkes, Jim Black, Bob Dorough, Joachim Khun, Christophe Schweizer, John Hollenbeck, Stephane Belmondo, Franco Ambrosetti, Matthieu Michel, etc.
Ohad also plays regularly with the Christophe Schweizer Organ 4tet feat. Billy Hart "Full Circle Rainbow", Roy Nathanson's "Alphabet Lounge Big Band", Yannick Barman 5tet and 7tet, Blue Seven-a 7tet based in Brazil feat. the MOB trio and four Brazilian musicians.
As an arranger/composer, his writing includes pieces for the Brecker Brothers, Lee Konitz, Steve Swallow and various Big Bands such as the Matosinhos Jazz Orchestra, the European Broadcasting Ensemble as well as music written for leading classical musicians such as Martha Argerich, the Spring String Quartet in Austria and the Axis String Quartet in New York.
Ohad is actively involved in writing for new media. This includes music for NPR and the SciFi channel, part of their radio-drama series, and for Random House and Penguin-Putnam audio books series as well as writing music for movies. More can be seen/heard here.
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Thinking
Music is the expression of the Absolute, substantiating into sounds our inner reality as being an echo to an universal and unifying Truth. Music shall suffer no preconceptions and must exist beyond all canons. Aiming for the substantiation of Music, in Beauty and as Truth is an essential journey; difficult, unique and ever-lasting.
Ohad Talmor's many influences include:
Greats of the Jazz Heritage: S.Rollins, W.Shorter, L. Konitz, W. Marsh, M.Davis, L. Young, C.Parker, J.Henderson, L.Armstrong, G.Evans., O.Coleman, M.Davis, D. Ellington...
Greats of the current Jazz world: D.Douglas, S.Coleman, J.Lovano, B.Frisell, J.Moran, P.Motian, J.Zorn, J.DeJohnette, S.Swallow, J.Scofield...
Greats of the Classical Heritage: the first Viennese trilogy, the second Viennese Trilogy, Stravinsky, Bartok, Bach, Chopin, Schubert, Prokofiev, Schostakovitch, Debussy, Koechlin...
Greats of the Contemporary Classical world: P.Boulez, G.Ligeti, A.Schnittke, T.Dun, M.Feldman, T.Takemitsu. E. Varèse, W.Lutoslawski, H. Dutilleux...
Great of Northern Indian Music: Nikhil Banerjee, Ragunath Seth, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Pannalal Gosh, Annindo Chaterjee, Samir Chaterjee, Ali Akhbar Khan, Ulhas Kalshakhar...
...And of course:
The Police, James Brown, X-ecutioners, Rob Swift, The Roots, G.Clinton & P-Funk, J. Hendrix, Prince, Frank Zappa, Earth Wind & Fire, G. Brassens, J. Brel, MC Solar, Astor Piazzolla, Ofrah Haza and many more.
First and foremost, Ohad's strongest and ever lasting influence is and will always be Yehuda Talmor (1940-2001)
For more on the world we live in, please click on America
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Pictures
Photographer Sunna Gunnlaugs For High Resolution Picture, click here
Ohad Talmor and NEWSREEL For a high resolution picture, click here
(Photo Scott Friedlander)
Ohad with Steve Swallow (Photo by Jimmy Katz)
Ohad with Lee Konitz (Photo by Nicolas Masson)
Taken during the Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival (Photo Agence France Presse)
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