American Pianist Howard Lee Sloan to Play at Manggha

December 1, 2008

Pianist Howard Lee Sloan

Lee Sloan, an American pianist will play a concert of solo piano improvisations at the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology on December 5th, 2008.  This will be his second appearance in Cracow Fall Jazz Festival this year. Previously he played in a quartet at Jazz Club Alchemia.  Lee Sloan is one of a few pianists who undertakes the challenge of solo concerts of entirely improvised music. Born in the United States into a musical family, Lee began playing the piano at the age of five. He attended the Berklee College, Boston and was a student of the renowned Polish pianist, Josef Hofmann at The Juilliard School in New York. While living in New York, he gave a series of improvisational solo concerts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was also the house pianist at the famous ‘Sweet Basil’s’ in Greenwich Village, and played alongside Warren Vache at ‘Bechet’s’. He took up residence in London appearing frequently at the city’s leading jazz venues including bassist Peter Ind’s "The Bass Clef’, ‘Pizza on the Park’, ‘Zanzibar’, ‘Café Pelican’, and ‘The 606 Club’.

He has worked as a soloist and in jazz ensembles in Great Britain, France, Germany, and Eastern Europe, performing with many of Europe’s finest musicians.