ABOUT

Zach Lapidus is a pianist, electronic musician, and composer living in Brooklyn, NY. With an eclectic background as a jazz pianist and a designer and player of synthesizers, Zach has become an in-demand collaborator for forward-thinking music that blends improvisation with electronic textures and timbres. As a jazz pianist, he has performed with Caroline Davis, Rich Perry, Frank Glover, Slide Hampton, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Wycliffe Gordon, Claudio Roditi, Derrick Gardner, and Bobby Watson, among others. His work as a producer and performer on keyboards and modular synthesizers can be heard in the bands and on the recordings of Corey Christiansen, Jeff Miles, Peter Brendler, Sergej Avenesov, and Tomasz Majcherski.

In both 2015 and 2011, Zach Lapidus was chosen as one of five finalists nationally in the American Pianist Association's Jazz Competition. A long-time collaborator of the NEA awarded clarinetist and saxophonist Frank Glover, he appears on Frank's records Abacus, mim, and Symphony No. 1. Their work as a duo was featured in the American Public Television documentary Take Two. His playing has been featured on broadcasts of NPR's Jazz Set With Dee Dee Bridgewater and Morning Edition, as well as on WBGO's Jazz Night in America with Christian McBride. His arranging work with The Fleet Foxes and The Resistance Revival Chorus has been heard on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. As an educator, Zach has taught masterclasses in jazz piano, improvisation and electronic music at universities and festivals around the country.

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“Zach Lapidus…accomplished something miraculous in the vocal set’s sole ballad, the Gershwins’ imperishable ‘Embraceable You.’ With his far-reaching constellations of chords, laid out at a perilously slow tempo, he brought tears to [Dee Dee] Bridgewater’s eyes…. Lapidus’ harmonic imagination gave the lie to the hasty judgment that recherche harmonies are some kind of intellectual exercise. Here was proof that any element available to a musician can pull the heartstrings, and not in a sentimental way. Lapidus’ ideas were fresh, challenging and deeply felt.”

“His playing was faultless. I need to take piano lessons from him.”

“The high-point of this track, however, was the sparkling style of Zach Lapidus, whose fender Rhodes approach took me immediately back to the origins of the style as exemplified in Herbie Hancock's joyous solo on Cornbread. Lapidus has a unfailingly melodic instinct which is happiest in up-tempo flying but never loses a strong sense of pulse.”

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