MARK GUILIANA PLAYS MARK

Mark Guiliana drums, percussion One of the most prominent cross-genre drummers of our time has a portfolio that anyone could envy. His services have been used by, among others, Avishai Cohen, Brad Mehldau, St. Vincent, David Bowie, Meshell Ndegeocello, Gretchen Parlato, Lionel Loueke and Tigran Hamasyan. But he also has his own solo career and will come to Brno as its protagonist. Mark Guiliana was born in 1980 in New Jersey and attended William Paterson University, where he graduated in jazz in 2003. However, he has a cross-genre, rather conceptual approach to the instrument, thanks to which he was able to create the electric duo Mehliana with Brad Mehldau, who plays synthesizers. Probably Guiliana's most famous work is the album Blackstar, the last work of one of the greatest geniuses of popular music, David Bowie. His playing style is truly "wide-ranging", he has perfectly mastered acoustic jazz playing, he can add rock or funk intensity and directness to his playing, as well as play with the colors of electronic instruments and unusual rhythms typical of progressive and avant-garde music.