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Yaniv Taubenhouse
Yaniv Taubenhouse is an internationally acclaimed jazz pianist and composer based in New York City. He has performed and recorded extensively throughout the United States and abroad, earning recognition for his lyrical approach, expressive touch, and distinctive artistic voice.
His debut album as a leader, Here from There, featuring drummer Darren Novotny and bassist Garrett Jones, was released on Fresh Sound Records in 2014 to critical acclaim, introducing his unique voice as both a pianist and composer.
Since its formation in 2014, the Yaniv Taubenhouse Trio—featuring bassist Rick Rosato and drummer Jerad Lippi—has become one of his primary creative outlets. The trio has released three critically acclaimed albums in its Moments in Trio series on Fresh Sound: Volume One, Perpetuation (Volume Two), and Roads (Volume Three). The fourth installment, Circles (Volume Four), is scheduled for release on November 13, 2026, on Fresh Sound. The trio also collaborated with French jazz vocalist Sarah Eden on Ailleurs…, released by Plaza Mayor Company Ltd.
In 2022, Taubenhouse released his first solo piano album, HOPE, on Fresh Sound. Featuring original compositions alongside music by Kenny Wheeler, Cole Porter, Henry Mancini, and Thelonious Monk, the album was praised for its lyricism, intimacy, and expressive depth.
Born in Israel, Taubenhouse began studying piano at the age of six. He graduated from Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts in Tel Aviv and studied classical piano with Assaf Zohar, Hanna Shalgi, and Benjamin Oren. In 2009, he moved to the United States to further his musical education, studying with Pavlina Dokovska and Jura Margulis. His artistic development was also shaped through lessons with Richard Goode, Sonia Rubinsky, Brad Mehldau, Joanne Brackeen, and Sam Yahel.
Taubenhouse attended The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music on scholarship, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jazz Performance. Since establishing himself as an active presence on the New York jazz scene, he has continued to perform, record, and tour internationally as a pianist, composer, bandleader, and collaborator.
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Hadar Orshalimy: Witchcraft
by Edward Blanco
New York-based Israeli songstress Hadar Orshalimy offers her second album Witchcraft (The Jewish Women of the Great American Songbook), containing nine often-recorded and well-known standards, all written by Jewish women. This project is a follow-up to her critically-acclaimed debut It Never Was You (Self-Produced, 2019) which presented a repertoire of music from famous Jewish composers. This second effort continues the journey of her cultural and religious heritage, driven by her passion for music. A glimpse into her past reveals a ...
Continue Reading...Yaniv Taubenhouse: Hope
by Mike Jurkovic
In the liner notes to Hope, Yaniv Taubenhouse's eloquently stated solo venture, the young pianist goes a long way to explain what brought him to the music he generously bequeaths us here. How one key besets the next and so on. How one tone leads to another and another. It might enhance the listening experience for some but, truth be simply told, listening repeatedly to Hope is all you need to gain insight to Taubenhouse's serene tone and intent.
Continue Reading...New albums from Taubenhouse, Carney, Lewis, and Booth and more!
by Bob Osborne
All recent releases this time around with the third volume in the Moments In Trio series from Yaniv Taubenhouse leading the way. There is also free improvisation mixed with modal jazz from Zane Carney, as well as the stunning new album from James Brandon Lewis. Original music and a unique ensemble sound that pushes at the boundaries of what is generally accepted as New Orleans music comes from Matt Booth and Palindromes. Nate Wooley introduces a compositional system that asks ...
Continue Reading...Yaniv Taubenhouse: Moments In Trio Volume Three: Roads
by Mike Jurkovic
Remember the excitement you first felt drawing circles as a kid? That profoundly innocent sense of being able to construct anything inside, outside, on, or upon those circles? Faces, trees, noses. Birds. bees, roses. A wide, westward, indigo sky. A fathomless blue ocean of liquid imagination. That's what it's like when you fully and gratefully engage with NYC based pianist/composer Yaniv Taubenhouse's third go round Moments In Trio Volume Three: Roads. With his fiercely limber rhythm mates, bassist ...
Continue Reading...Yaniv Taubenhouse: Moments In Trio Volume Three: Roads
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Moments In Trio Volume Three: Roads represents the third trip around the sun for Yaniv Taubenhouse's piano trio, featuring Rick Rosato and Jerad Lippi. It's also the group's most refined offering to date. Borrowing from the bold and confident spirit of Moments in Trio Volume One (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2015) and reabsorbing the nimble interplay and lyrical subtleness that characterized the trio's second crack Moments in Trio Volume Two (2018), this moment in trio combines the adventurous spirit of ...
Continue Reading...Yaniv Taubenhouse Trio: Perpetuation: Moments In Trio Volume Two
by Dan McClenaghan
Anyone with an antenna out for an exciting, new(ish) piano trio would do well to give Yaniv Taubenhouse a listen. The Israeli-born and now New York-based pianist offers up his third recording, tagged Perpetuation: Moments In Trio Volume Two, bringing to mind Brad Mehldau's five Art of the Trio recordings on Warner Brothers Records, released between 1997 and 2001. Taubenhouse studied with Mehldau, and the disc's opening title tune has a Mehldau-ian feel, with a persistent but understated ...
Continue Reading...Yaniv Taubenhouse Trio: Moments In Trio, Volume One
by Edward Blanco
Pianist Yaniv Taubenhouse presents his second album as leader with the bold Moments In Trio, Volume One providing another fresh set of innovative new originals continuing the personal musical journey he began documenting with his highly-acclaimed debut Here From There (Fresh Sound Records, 2015). Together with new fellow band mates Jerad Lippi on drums and Rick Rosato on bass, this Tabenhouse Trio glide gently through nine original compositions of classically-tinged modern jazz and one re-imagined standard delivering several balladic and ...
Continue Reading...Pianist Yaniv Taubenhouse's New Solo Piano Album 'Hope' Release Concert at Revelation Gallery
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Yaniv Taubenhouse solo piano release concert for Hope on March 6th 2022 at 3pm (ET) Revelation Gallery 224 Waverly Place New York, NY 10014 In-Person Tickets | Streaming Tickets Taubenhouse decided to follow up his latest trio recording with a format which enables him to tell you his story as an artist, as a pianist, as a person in this world, intimately, and from his heart. Hope, recorded ...
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The Title Track From Yaniv Taubenhouse's Upcoming Solo Piano Album 'hope' Is Out Now!
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Pianist/Composer Yaniv Taubenhouse Announces the Release of Solo Piano Recording – Hope Available on Fresh Sound New Talent – February 18, 2022 Extraordinary times often produces extraordinary art. In the case of pianist Yaniv Taubenhouse, his new solo piano recording, Hope, was created during the onset of the global pandemic, in February 2020, against a backdrop of news about the virus spreading, coupled with anxiety and fear of the unknown, but also a survival instinct laced with hope. ...
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Yaniv Taubenhouse Trio's New Single 'Prayer' from Moments In Trio Volume Three: Roads Out Today!
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
OUT TODAY! “Prayer” is the second single from Yaniv Taubenhouse Trio’s album: Moments In Trio Volume Three: Roads Featuring Yaniv Taubenhouse (piano), Rick Rosato (bass), and Jerad Lippi (drums) Full album available at Fresh Sound New Talent on April 9, 2021 “Prayer" is a composition written by Yaniv Taubenhouse ASCAP. “The meditative aspect of a prayer is the desired atmosphere in this composition. The sixteenth note subdivisions, which are implied in both piano and drums throughout the piece, provide a ...
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Pianist/Composer Yaniv Taubenhouse Announces The Release Of 'Moments In Trio Volume Three: Roads'
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Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
Available on Fresh Sound New Talent on April 9, 2021 Yaniv Taubenhouse: Piano Rick Rosato: Bass Jerad Lippi: Drums “A marvelous piano trio outing. Taubenhouse has a restless sense of wonder on his own tunes, and a beautiful feel for the standards. And he's got crack trio-mates on board. He seems to know where he's going: where the music takes him." —Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz ...
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"The range of atmospheres and emotions in the poetry of Yaniv Taubenhouse’s music is astounding. Rarely and only once or twice in a lifetime do you get to hear a musician and a pianist who is as sensitive as Taubenhouse to the voice of the heart, the breadth of human emotion and its relationship with the whisper of nature, and its roar as well." – Raul da Gama, Jazz da Gama
“ . . . Taubenhouse is, above all, a seductive pianist. He pursues lavish beauty unashamedly. For him, technical elements serve emotional, spiritual, and atmospheric purposes . . . Taubenhouse can cast a spell like Abdullah Ibrahim, but his energy is edgier . . . Remember his name. His present is intriguing. His future could be more so.” – Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes Magazine
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Yaniv Taubenhouse
Location: New York City
Instrument: Piano
Born: September 24, 1987
Management: Emmeci S.R.L
Publicist: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
