artpower at uc san diego Performing Arts Season 2011-2012

Quartet OnomatoPoetic

Featuring Matthew Wohl, Bass; Scooter Oyama, Guitar; Daniel Sanchez, Piano; and Dan Merriott, Trumpet,

Twenty-one year old Matthew Wohl is an up & coming jazz bassist from the San Francisco Bay Area and current undergraduate student at the UC.  Wohl's Quartet OnomatoPoetic, featuring top improvisors in the UCSD's jazz department, embodies blended influences of nostalgic teenage rock, contemporary musical idioms, traditional jazz practices, aleatoric forms and Wohl’s transcontinental connection to his peers in New York City.  Its sonic product successfully mirrors Wohl's youthful experiences -- engaging and romantic aural constructs that are strikingly interrupted and re-contextualized by both improvisatory and compositional decisions.

Sponsor: University Centers/Reply All: Jazz