DAVID CIERI | News • Interviews • Features
The Paris Review:
The Paris Review Podcast Season 2: An Interview with Composer David Cieri
“David Cieri is a NYC–based pianist and composer and led the band that created original music for Seasons 1 and 2 of The Paris Review Podcast. He has done scoring work on documentaries for by Ken Burns, the Ewers Brothers, Ark Media, and others. He has recorded collaborative albums with the poet Yusef Komunyakaa, and his next album, An Homage to Carl Th. Dreyer’s 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc, will be released in January 2020. He spoke to TPR’s digital director, Craig Morgan Teicher, about the freedom of repetition, the Haken Continuum fingerboard, and his family of bandmates.”
From Ken Burns:
Notes from the Underderscore: 10 Years with Florentine Films — David Cieri
“Our longtime friend and composer, David Cieri, has released Notes from the Underscore – a collection of music representing his work over ten years with Florentine Films. […] ”
PBS:
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History | About the Music
“The music featured in THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY includes over 15 original compositions and arrangements – a mixture of early 20th Century music and new orginal songs – crafted by up-and-coming composer / pianist David Cieri. […] ”
The Wall Street Journal:
Composer David Cieri on ‘The Seeker’ by The Who
“A song comforts a teenager struggling with his parents’ divorce:
My parents went through a rough divorce in 1987, when I was 13. After their split, my father had custody of me, but it was a hard time for him, emotionally. I had to fend for myself. […] ”
The New York Times:
Composer and Pianist David Cieri in Collaboration
with Marcel Dzama
The show culminates in “Lotus Eaters,” a silent film about an artist’s loneliness and
the role of memory, love and companionship in the quest for self-expression. It stars
Mr. Dzama’s father, and begins and ends with a dancing bear, a longtime Dzama character.
It is greatly buoyed by its musical accompaniment, especially on Saturday, when
the pianist David Cieri improvises to the action on screen, delivering one of
the most poignant aesthetic experiences currently available in Chelsea.
ROBERTA SMITH
Ropeadope:
Featured Artist | David Cieri
“David Cieri is a master composer, capable of the most subtle turns of phrase, and sensitive to every nuance of image and sound. His work ranges from the emotionally sublime to the rhythmically hypnotic, from the joyous to the foreboding. In this remarkable collection of work that he has composed for us over ten years, one can hear all of these feelings come together. From the spiraling ascendance of Meditation 9 to the ethereal breath of Into Another Life, Dave proves his gifts on each track.” (Ken Burns)
Thrive Global:
Why What Other People Think of Your Art is None of Your Business: With Composer David Cieri
“I had the opportunity to interview David Cieri, composer and multi-instrumentalist who in December 2017, released a compilation soundtrack celebrating a decade of working with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and Florentine Films documentaries including The Vietnam War, The Roosevelts, Prohibition, Baseball, and The Address. The album is aptly titled Notes from the Underscore: 10 Years with Florentine Films. […] ”
The Hype Magazine:
David Cieri on Composing for Ken Burns, Playing at Carnegie Hall & Living in New York
“A musician and composer with over 40 years of experience as a pianist, David Cieri has studied under renowned pianist and harpsichordist Mary Jo Horton, Argentinean pianist Americo Caramuta, and ECM recording artist Art Lande. […] ”
CultureSonar:
Composer David Cieri Gets in Tune with the Sound of History
“Most people are familiar with film composers Danny Elfman, John Williams, and Hans Zimmer. If they’re film geeks to boot, they know about Ennio Morricone and Bernard Hermann, too. And everyone knows Quincy Jones. But what about the next generation of film composers? […] ”
