CONCERT | Joe Lovano – Trio Explorations with David Rothenberg and Michael Bisio
Wallkill River Center for the Arts (WRCA) is pleased to present JOE LOVANO: TRIO EXPLORATIONS WITH DAVID ROTHENBERG AND MICHAEL BISIO as the kick-off of our 2026 music series.
Grammy Winner Joe Lovano leads a Creative Trio in Sonic Excursions.
Joe Lovano: saxophones, woodwinds, percussion
with David Rothenberg: bass clarinet and Michael Bisio: acoustic bass
Sunday, March 15, 3 – 5 pm
The Westinghouse Estate, 62 Old Chester Road, Goshen, NY
Presented by WRCA, this is the first of a four-concert series curated by vocalist and composer Judi Silvano.
PLEASE NOTE, the concert series is free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $20/person. Due to the intimate nature of concert locations and limited seating, advance registration is recommended but not required. To reserve your seat, register by purchasing a FREE ticket – at bottom of event page.
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About the performers:
Joe Lovano
Grammy-winning saxophonist, composer and producer Joe Lovano is fearless in finding new modes of artistic expression. With a Grammy Win for his 52nd Street Themes and 14 other nominations, he has won DownBeat Magazine’s Critics and Readers Polls countless times as Tenor Saxophonist, Musician of the Year, Jazz Album of the Year and Triple Crowns from DownBeat. He has also received numerous awards from Jazz Times and the Jazz Journalists Association for Tenor Saxophone, Album of the Year and Musician of the Year.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio on December 29, 1952 he attended the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston where years later he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate. Since 2001 he has held the Gary Burton Chair in Jazz Performance and is a founding faculty member since 2009 of the Global Jazz Institute at Berklee directed by Danilo Pérez. He is a guest lecturer at New York University’s Jazz Program, Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music as well as Clinician at Universities around the globe.
From 1991 through 2016, Lovano released an unprecedented 25 records as a leader for the historic Blue Note Records. Joe Lovano Quartet: Classic! Live at Newport featuring Hank Jones was recorded in 2005 and released in 2016 to critical acclaim. In 2019, Lovano released his debut album as a bandleader on ECM Records, Trio Tapestry, with Marilyn Crispell and Carmen Castaldi. Over the next few years, Lovano saw the release of three additional ECM Records albums: ROMA, a collaboration with Enrico Rava; Arctic Riff, a special guest appearance with the Marcin Wasilewski Trio; and the sophomore release from Lovano’s Trio Tapestry, Garden of Expression. In 2021, Lovano released Other Worlds, his third album with Sound Prints, a quintet he co-leads with trumpeter Dave Douglas. The next year brought a collaboration with guitarist Jakob Bro, Once Around the Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian. In 2023, Lovano released his third Trio Tapestry recording entitled, Our Daily Bread. Most recently, Lovano released Homage, a follow-up recording with the Marcin Wasilewski Trio.
In addition, composer Mark Anthony Turnage wrote a Concerto for Saxophone and Chamber Orchestra for Joe called “A Man Descending” which has been performed globally and Maestro Michael Abene orchestrated an album of all-Lovano originals called Symphonica for the WDR Symphonic Orchestra and Big Band, which was released on Blue Note and received a Grammy nomination.
Joe has performed and recorded with a long list of jazz greats including Woody Herman, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Mel Lewis, Bob Brookmeyer, Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Tony Bennett, Abbey Lincoln, Charlie Haden, John Scofield, Gunther Schuller, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Ed Blackwell, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Hank Jones, Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, Dave Douglas, Judi Silvano, Ravi Coltrane, Chucho Valdés, Ornette Coleman, Diana Krall, and many others. Joe has created an extensive body of work for his own ensembles including strings, woodwinds, his horn-rich Nonet, the Classic Quartet, Trio Tapestry, and more.
Joe Lovano continues to explore new horizons within the world of music as a soloist, bandleader and composer.
David Rothenberg
Musician and philosopher David Rothenberg wrote Why Birds Sing, Bug Music, Survival of the Beautiful and many other books, published in at least eleven languages. He has more than forty recordings out, including One Dark Night I Left My Silent House which came out on ECM, and more recently Just Leave It All Behind and Lost Steps. He has performed or recorded with Pauline Oliveros, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, Suzanne Vega, Scanner, Elliott Sharp, Umru, Iva Bittová, and the Karnataka College of Percussion. In 2024 he won a Grammy Award as part of For the Birds, in the category of Best Boxed Set. Whale Music and Secret Sounds of Ponds are his latest books. Nightingales In Berlin and Eastern Anthems are his latest films. His piece Eleven Paths to Animal Music premiered at the Sammlung Hoffmann in Berlin in 2025. Rothenberg is Distinguished Professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Michael Bisio
Bassist / composer Michael Bisio has been called a poet, a wonder and one of the most virtuosic and imaginative performers on the double bass.
“The physicality of Mr. Bisio’s bass playing puts him in touch with numerous predecessors in the avante garde, but his expressive touch is distinctive.” The New York Times
With over a hundred fifty recordings in his discography, more than two dozen as leader or co-leader as well as a dozen documenting his extraordinary association with piano icon Matthew Shipp, Michael continues to grow and live in the tradition – The tradition is to move the tradition forward.
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About the concert location:
The Westinghouse Estate – Join us for the first concert of our 2026 Season at the historic mansion built in 1929 by the Westinghouse family on 14 acres in the rolling hills of Goshen NY. In the mid-1970’s the property was purchased by the famous Gabor sisters where they created a Health Spa. It is presently being renovated as a Bed and Breakfast and Event Space in this historic Hudson Valley town.
WRCA’s 2026 concert series has been made possible thanks to the support of (as of 1/30/26):
Wallkill River Center for the Arts programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
