Articulation Quartet

Articulation is a mixed ensemble making and exploring connections between jazz and chamber music, improvisation, and composition, play and experiment.  The group features Carl Dimow on flutes, Philip Carlsen on cello, Brian Shankar Adler on tabla, and Frank Mauceri on saxophones.

PHILIP CARLSEN’s compositions have been performed by the Portland Symphony, Sebago-Long Lakes Region Chamber Music Festival, Manhattan Marimba Quartet, National Symphony Chamber Players, Our Big Band, Carl Dimow’s Return of the Toroid, Transient Canvas (bassclarinet and marimba), and many other groups in Maine and around the country. Upcoming premieres include “Cool Mosses Deep” for flute octet (Mt. Holyoke) and “Pour les sixtes” for marimba and vibraphone (Berklee). He has collaborated with choreographer Andrew Bossov, conceptual artist Amy Stacey Curtis, and poets including Wesley McNair and Lee Sharkey. Phil directed the Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival at the Portland Conservatory. He plays cello in the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, Buttonwood Piano Trio, and the professional early music group St. Mary Schola. Since retirement from the University of Maine at Farmington, where he taught from 1982 to 2015, Phil has lived in South Portland with his wife, the poet Jeri Theriault.

Flutist and guitarist CARL DIMOW klezmer, Brazilian choro, and a wide variety of improvised music. Current projects include the Carl Dimow Jazz Quartet, the Casco Bay Tummlers klezmer band, Choro Louco and various special projects such as this one. As a composer, Carl has created original music for his ensembles, plus music for theater and film. His Klezmer Suite for Flute and Classical Guitar won the National Flute Association New Music Competition in 2014 and has been performed on five continents.

Composer, saxophonist, artist, and teacher, FRANK MAUCERI, lives and works in southern Maine. His compositions include chamber music, jazz compositions, electro-acoustic music, and multi-media works. As a saxophonist he has performed with jazz and improvising groups in the United States, Europe, and Japan. His research has focused on the social effects of music technology and on interactive computer systems for the arts. He teaches in the music department of Bowdoin College.

BRIAN SHANKAR ADLER is an American drummer, percussionist, and composer. Adler’s music explores the perception of time, the communicative properties of embodied gesture and the existential questions that reside in the human condition. He has performed in caves, forests and adjacent glacial ice fields as well as Carnegie Hall, Jazz Standard, Lincoln Center, Rubin Museum and The Stone. He has been recorded on over forty albums including his solo works, For a Gallery on the Moon (Chant Records, 2020) and Fourth Dimension (Chant Records, 2019). He is currently on faculties at: Bates College, University of Maine, and Vermont Jazz Center.

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