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Vicente Atria
Vicente Atria is a Chilean composer and drummer. Described as “virtuosic”, “revelatory” (The New York Times) and “ecstatic, (…) filled with a wild distorted energy” (The Guardian), his music riffs on a wide range of idioms, from renaissance dances to Korean sanjo, creating ludic, futuristic soundworlds.
A 2022-23 Wet Ink Ensemble Artist-in-Residence, Vicente’s work has been commissioned or performed by the Sun Ra Arkestra, JACK Quartet, Wet Ink Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, International Contemporary Ensemble, and TAK Ensemble. He has been featured at a wide variety of venues and festivals, including Moers Festival, Skanu Mezs, MATA Festival, Festival ChileJazz, Re:Sound Festival, Festival Mixtur, ATLÁNTICX Festival, The Shed, The Stone, Dizzy’s Club at JALC, Jazz Standard, DiMenna Center for Classical Music, and Roulette Intermedium, among others. His music has been released on Carrier Records, Aguirre Records, and Endectomorph Music, and has been reviewed by publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wire, and Boomkat.
He is a recipient of the Deutscher Jazzpreis (2023), an ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award (2022), an ACF Create award (2021), The Shed Open Call commission (2019), two Chilean Ministry of Culture Fondo de la Música funds (2022 & 2020), and an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award (finalist, 2016). He holds a doctorate in Composition from Columbia University, where he studied with Fred Lerdahl, Georg Haas, and George Lewis.
Awards
Deutscher Jazzpreis (Best International Debut Album), winner, for Orlando Furioso
Wet Ink Artist-In-Residence, awarded commission to write dreams and tips of thoughtful leaves for Wet Ink Ensemble.
ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award, winner, for Reptilian (with Family Plan).
American Composers Forum Create grant awarded to compose a second book of microtonal music for Orlando Furioso
The Shed (Open Call), commission awarded for When We Took The Fire (with The Vex Collection).
ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, finalist, for Crónico.
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Family Plan: Family Plan
by Jerome Wilson
Family Plan belongs to the strain of piano trios, formed in the wake of The Bad Plus, that eschew a straight acoustic jazz approach in favor of music which often experiments with distortion, repetition and knotty, mechanical melodies, all of which display the close-knit interaction between the three group members, pianist Andrew Boudreau, bassist Simon Willson, and drummer Vincente Hansen. The resemblance to The Bad Plus shows up most in the bumpy prog rock motion of “Life Is ...
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by Troy Dostert
Listeners familiar with saxophonist Kevin Sun's adventurous outings on his Endectomorph label—The Sustain of Memory, 2019; (Un)Seaworthy, 2020—will celebrate the fact that he is now reaching out to other like-minded musicians for inclusion on his roster. One of the first, Family Plan, is a trio built around the talents of pianist-keyboardist Andrew Boudreau, bassist Simón Willson, and drummer Vicente Hansen. The group treads the fine line between form and freedom quite skillfully, with occasional electronic touches which add dimension to ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
