Alum
Laszlo Gardony
Position
Professor
Affiliated Departments
Telephone
617-747-8187
Personal Websites
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Career Highlights
- Leader of own trio, quartet, and sextet, as well as solo pianist
- Has 14 albums featuring 55 original compositions, 18 solo piano improvisations, and 28 original arrangements of jazz standards, rock and traditional songs, and six band improvisations released on the Sunnyside, Antilles, and Avenue Jazz labels
- Performances and/or recordings with Dave Holland, David “Fathead” Newman, Randy Brecker, Dave Liebman, and Eddie Gomez, among many others
- Appearances at major venues including jazz festivals and jazz clubs, such as Symphony Hall (Boston), the Opera City Concert Hall (Tokyo), the Blue Note and Birdland (New York City), the Monterey Festival, and the Bracknell Festival (London), among others
- Both the 2015 live sextet recording Life in Real Time (Sunnyside Records) and the 2017 solo piano album Serious Play (Sunnyside) named by the Boston Globe as among the 10 Best Nationwide Jazz Releases of the Year
- Compositions featured on Blue Note, Accurate, and Jazziz Critics' Choice CDs
- Featured sideman with Yoron Israel's High Standards, Matt Glaser's Wayfaring Strangers, and the John Coltrane Memorial Ensemble, among others
- Selected recordings as sideman include Yoron Israel's Visions: Music of Stevie Wonder (Ronja Music Company) and This Moment (Ronja Music Company), the Wayfaring Strangers' This Train (Rounder) and Shifting Sands of Time (Rounder), Garrison Fewell's Reflection of a Clear Moon (Accurate), Shelley Neill Quintet featuring John Blake Jr.'s The Blues Runs through It (Cobalt Blue Music), Christian Artmann's Our Story (Sunnyside) and The Middle of Life (Sunnyside), and Kevin Kastning's Levitation I (Greydisc)
- Critically acclaimed releases as a leader include Close Connection (2022), La Marseillaise (2019), Serious Play (2017), Life in Real Time (2015), Clarity (2013), S
ignature Time (2011), Dig Deep (2008), and Natural Instinct (2006), among others, all on Sunnyside Records
Awards
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Voting Member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
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Recipient of three Boston Music Award nominations
- First prize, 1987 Great American Jazz Piano Competition
Education
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School NameBerklee College of MusicState or ProvinceMassachusettsDegreeProfessional DiplomaField of StudyMusicDate Degree Received
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School NameEotvos Lorand University (University of Budapest)CountryHungaryDegreeMaster of Education (MEd)Field of StudyMathematicsDate Degree Received
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School NameBela Bartok Music College (Conservatory) - [renamed Jazz Department of the Franz Liszt Academy, once it merged with the Academy]CountryHungaryDegreeBachelor of Music (BM)Field of StudyMusicDate Degree Received
In Their Own Words