David DeMotta is a jazz pianist, educator, and music scholar based in the New York City area.
He maintains an active career as a performer, university instructor, and private teacher, with extensive experience teaching jazz performance, jazz history, music theory, world music, improvisation, and applied piano.
Recent album
Everything I Love
with Paul Gill (bass) and Jason Tiemann (drums)
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A program of standards and original compositions shaped by a contemporary approach to the jazz tradition.
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Solo, trio, and ensemble settings throughout the New York metropolitan area, rooted in the bebop tradition and contemporary jazz piano.
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University instruction and private lessons in improvisation, harmony, ear training, and repertoire — from his home studio in Oradell, New Jersey.
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Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the CUNY Graduate Center, with published research on Bud Powell and the aesthetics of bebop rhythm.
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