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DAVID GLEASON Pianist, Band Leader, Composer and Music Educator

David Gleason is a pianist, composer, music educator and ethnomusicologist living in New York's Capital Region.  He received an M.A. in music from Tufts University where he studied ethnomusicology and composition.  As an ethnomusicologist he researched Caribbean folk and popular music in Puerto Rico and Cuba.  His fieldwork culminated in a thesis entitled "La Parranda Puertorriquena: The Music, Symbolism and Cultural Nationalism of Puerto Rico's Christmas Serenading Tradition."     As a jazz and Latin pianist he has performed with ensembles such as RumbaNaMa, The Boston Latin Band, The Either/Orchestra, Altiplano, Mojive, and the Kinewe African Drum Ensemble as well as renown musicians like Laurel Masse, Fred Wesley, Danilo Perez, and John Fedchock.  He currently leads the acclaimed Latin jazz ensemble, Sensemaya     Mr. Gleason studied music education and jazz studies at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, New York.  He also studied jazz piano with Capital Region guru Lee Shaw.  He has taught chorus at Mont Pleasant Middle School, Music Theory and Jazz Ensembles at the Sayles School of Fine Arts and World Music at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York.

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Contact David Gleason (518) 273-6577 or at gleasondavid@hotmail.com for jazz or latin piano lessons, improvisation instruction composition lessons or to book solo, duo, trio jazz performances or Sensemaya

SAMPLE RECORDINGS

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

Tursday, July 3rd at Justin's, Albany. 9-12 w/ The Pete Sweeney Trio Sunday, July 6th at at Justin's, Albany. 9-12 w/ members of Sensemaya Wednesday July 16th at Justin's, Albany. 9-12 Dave Gleason Trio Wednesday, July 23. Collar City Live, Troy. 12:00 noon w/ Brian Melick Wednesday, August 13th at Justin's, Albany. 9-12.  Dave Gleason Trio Thursday, August 14th at The Stckade Inn, Schenectady.  7-10 Dave Gleason Duo Friday, August 15th at 9 Maple Ave, Saratoga. 9-1 w/ The Pete Sweeney Group.

JAZZ Donna Lee - Solo Piano Yesterdays - with the Pete Sweeney Quartet In a Sentimental Mood - with the Kris Farrow Group Skylark - with the Pete Sweeney Trio

MODERN COMPOSITION Charanga for Clarinet and Piano (2003) Piano Suite in Six Movements (2003) I.   Antiguo II.  First Interlude III. Lagrimas IV. Winter V.   Second Interlude VI. Waltz

ACADEMIC RESEARCH

La Parranda Puertorriquena: The Music, Sybolism, and Cultural Nationalism of Puerto Rico Christmas Serenading Tradion