About

Jeremiah Cymerman is a composer & clarinetist based in New York City.  Since 2002 he has been active in a wide variety of musical contexts, premiering new works in downtown institutions like Roulette, Issue Project Room & The Stone, touring internationally, improvising with numerous musicians in various situations, curating concerts, producing & engineering albums and publishing numerous articles on music and music production.  Largely influenced by New York’s tradition of music & art making Cymerman’s work reflects an interest in improvisation, electronic manipulation & production, traditional, studio & graphic composition as well as solo performance.  Cymerman has worked or performed with a broad range of contemporary artists including Nate Wooley, John Zorn, Toby Driver, Jandek, MC Paul Barman, Harris Eisenstadt, Evan Parker, Matthew Welch, Otomo Yoshihide, Jessica Pavone, Butch Morris, Peter Evans, Anthony Coleman and Mary Halvorson among many others. 

In 2007, after several hand-made self-released cdrs Cymerman released his first official album “Big Exploitation” which found him in the role of conductor of a 13 piece improvising big band. The album found its way to regular rotation on college and jazz radio stations nation-wide and according to Phillip Buchan of Flagpole Magazine “swings with a desperate-as-your-life abandon that makes it feel astonishingly sincere, a far cry from a postmodern grab bag.”.  In 2008 the Tzadik label released his album “In Memory of the Labyrinth System”, a highly personal work for solo clarinet & computer processing that went on to make many best of lists for the year and saxophone maestro Evan Parker described as “an astonishing achievement”.  In 2009 Cymerman was the recipient of a grant from Jerome Foundation by way of Roulette Intermedium which allowed him to create “Under a Blue Grey Sky” which was released in 2010 on Porter Records and described by Derek Taylor of All About Jazz as “an uncommonly astute merger of acoustic and electronic elements.”  2011 will see three new releases:

-“Tartar Lamb II: Polyimage of Known Exits”, a collaboration with composer Toby Driver & members of his band Kayo Dot.

-“Fire Sign”: Follow-up on Tzadik Records including four new electroacoustic compositions and featuring Peter Evans, Nate Wooley, Tom Blancarte, Brian Chase, Christopher Hoffman and many others

-Duo record with drummer Brian Chase