Synchronicity
piano and percussion duo
The piano and percussion duo Synchronicity is comprised of brothers Garah and Gregory Landes. The ensemble fuses classical and jazz music into an exciting and highly visual experience. Synchronicity commissions, composes, and transcribes music that suits their unique instrumentation.
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Synchronicity performs with cellist Ian Maloney
Works by Ravel, Bernstein, Piazzolla, Gerassimez and Maloney.
"Cutting edge, what classical music should be."
David Chesky, Chesky Records
The piano and percussion duo Synchronicity is comprised of brothers Garah and Gregory Landes. The ensemble fuses classical and jazz music into an exciting and highly visual experience. Synchronicity commissions, composes, and transcribes music that suits their unique instrumentation.
Synchronicity premiers a diverse range of new music by established and emerging composers including NEA Jazz Masters Recipient, Paquito D’Rivera, MacArthur Fellow, Dafnis Prieto, Grammy award winner, Robin Eubanks, NY Philharmonic Young Composers Award Winner, Jack Gulielmetti, Joshua Rosenblum, New Zealand-based composer, John Psathas, Roland Vazquez and Carolyn Yarnell.
In 2019 Synchronicity presented the U.S. premier of the Double Concerto for Piano, Percussion and Strings, “Illumination” by the Canadian composer, Kevin Lau at the DiMenna Center in NYC.
Recent concert highlights include Synchronicity Voyager! a commissioning project of seven world premiers for piano and percussion which was presented in New York at Christ and St. Stephens Church.
Synchronicity’s most recent tours have been throughout the United States and the Virgin Islands. Highlights include Merkin Concert Hall and Symphony Space in New York, Tribeca New Music Festival, Bar Harbor and Bridgehampton Festivals, St. Croix and concerts and educational projects in San Francisco and Northern California.
Synchronicity’s debut CD titled “Like Minds,” was featured on National Public Radio. WNYC-FM in New York interviewed the duo and NPR affiliates in Northern California broadcast two concerts from their recent tour.
Synchronicity first performed with the Grammy-award winning clarinetist, Paquito D’Rivera at Symphony Space in New York. Concert highlights include Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Tanglewood Jazz Festival which featured Garah, Greg, Paquito and Bang on a Can bassist, Robert Black performing the world premier quartet version of Paquito’s, “Conversations with Cachao”. Synchronicity premiered their Stravinsky/Bernstein Trio project with Paquito D’Rivera. These included world premier transcriptions of the Firebird and Leonard Bernstein’s, Prelude, Fugue and Riffs. Performances at the Moab Music Festival, Rockport Music Festival and European debut at the Incontri in Terra di Sienna Chamber Festival, La Foce Estate in Tuscany.
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"The audibly impressed audience filled the church with uproarious applause and a much deserved standing ovation."
Gregory Landes
GREGORY LANDES is a drummer, percussionist, composer, educator and arranger. Orchestral credits include timpanist and percussionist with The New Jersey Symphony, Garden State Philharmonic, The New Haven Symphony, The American Symphony Orchestra, New York Chorale Society, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Princeton Symphony, Albany Symphony, Little Orchestra Society of New York, Greenwich, Stamford, and Westchester Symphonies, Masterwork Chorale Orchestra and the Goldman Band and The New Jersey Wind Symphony.
For the last 30 years Gregory has performed as both drummer and percussionist for over 50 Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. 2019 Lyrics and Lyricists 92nd St. Y “Live and in Living Color” Andy Einhorn Musical Supervisor, Rob Berman Musical Supervisor/Director
In 2018 the new musical by John Kander, “The Beast in the Jungle”, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman. 2017 Director John Doyle’s “Pacific Overtures” and John Kander’s “Kid Victory. Gregory helped create the drum and percussion book for John Kander’s musical “The Landing”. Gregory is the original drummer and percussionist for the Broadway, Chicago,,Boston and Madison Square Garden productions of ‘How The Grinch Stole Christmas” He has also played drums or percussion for: “Avenue Q,” “Newsies”, “In The Heights,” “Curtains,” “Wicked,” “42nd Street,” “Play Without Words,” “Ragtime,” “Les Miserables,” “Falsettos,” “Putting It Together,”(with Julie Andrews) and many others.
Gregory is a founding member of The Pit Stop Players. A chamber ensemble comprised of New York City’s most in demand freelance musicians dedicated to performing new works by emerging composers. www.rosenblummusic.com
Gregory is the director of percussion studies at The Calhoun School in New York City. Watch The Calhoun Percussion Ensemble. http://youtu.be/nKBr-ChZqqM. Gregory’s arrangements and pieces written for percussion ensemble are published by Bachovich Music Publications. Gregory is also a drum and percussion instructor in the Encore Program at Ridgewood High School in New Jersey. Gregory also taught General Music and Percussion at The Pingry School. Gregory is endorsed by Paiste cymbals and is an Innovative Percussion artist.
Since 1997 Gregory has been performing with his brother Garah Landes, pianist, as Synchronicity.
"Svelte and swinging, with rhythmic authority"
Steve Smith, New York Times.Garah Landes
GARAH LANDES is a pianist, composer, arranger, organist and choral director. A native of Westchester County, NY, Garah made a critically acclaimed New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall. His debut recording, music of Liszt, Shostakovich, and Prokofiev, was released on the Stradivari Classics label. KOCH International Classics released his CD devoted to American composers Charles Griffes and Edward MacDowell.
In 1997, Garah and his brother, Gregory Landes formed the Piano and Percussion duo, Synchronicity, for which Garah has composed numerous works, including the Royal Banners, and the Double Concerto which premiered in New York. In 2019, Synchronicity gave the U.S. premier of the Double Concerto for Piano, Percussion and Strings, “Illumination” by Kevin Lau. Recent projects include EP recording with renowned jazz trombonist, Robin Eubanks. Garah and Gregory began a series of collaborations with the Grammy-award winning clarinetist, Paquito D’Rivera. Concerts include Symphony Space, Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. Garah is a core member of the Pit Stop Players in New York, a large chamber group devoted to commissioning new music in the contemporary classical and jazz genres. Garah is the organist and choirmaster at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
