Response
“Your music carries that rare quality: it does not attempt to persuade the listener of anything. It simply remains present long enough for hidden things to begin speaking on their own.”
“I suspect that what gives your improvisations their peculiar gravity is precisely their refusal to dominate uncertainty. They move like memory before narrative claims it. Not unfinished, but intentionally unsealed.”
“‘Origin’ continues to linger in me. ... as though the music had already existed somewhere beneath language and merely passed through you for an instant before returning to obscurity.”
Prof. Ernesto Juan Castro —
founder and curator of MusiK EnigmatiK, Argentina
“I like your style, Mario; A blend of Debussy, Ravel, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett and naturally You. Very sophisticated and elegant. What I have heard shows classical studies. You play with great feeling and intense mood. Moreover your music is not very tonal-based. Congratulations!”
Pianist
Rome, Italy
“Mario Mattia's piano improvisations are stunning – stunning in their clarity, their motion, their elegance. Not fragments of what might be, but complete, complex compositions, emotional, vivid,... from the heart to the ear.”
Umberto Crenca
Founder of AS220
Providence, RI
“Mario Mattia's remarkable piano improvisations manage to marry a sense of freedom, spontaneity and emotional depth with an uncanny compositional attention to form and structure.”
Michael Nicolella
Concert Guitarist and Composer, Cornish College of the Arts
Seattle, WA
“Mario Mattia's work at the piano goes well beyond common musical boundaries, moving the listener into a clear understanding of the artist's emotion at that moment. The music is transcendental, with no preconceived composition or theme. Experiencing his works provides an honest emotional transference from the artist to listener.”
Alan Greco
Graphic Designer, Drummer
Warwick, RI
In response to my latest release: Approaching Hyperion / Agape Warmth —
“I was so moved by these pieces; they made me feel such deep sadness – particularly the “before” piece. I thought it had both an ethereal quality as well as a sense of desperation. The “knowing” piece aptly describes a beautiful life tragically ended – one that was special to you.
In any case, I am impressed with your ability to translate human emotion into musical expression.”
B McCool