Yaniv Taubenhouse

" Taubenhouse's musical personality and vision is so strong. His music has an intensity which comes from this purity of vision, but which, however, is balanced and underpinned by an emotional optimism that is very appealing."
- All About Jazz

"Yaniv is remarkably talented musician and a natural performer; his pianistic and musical abilities and his interest in and experience with many styles are promising". Jura Margulis

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Having received his first piano lessons at the age of six, Israeli native Yaniv Taubenhouse graduated from the Thelma-Yellin high school of the arts in Tel Aviv. Upon graduation, he went on to study with gifted Israeli instructors such as Dr. Assaf Zohar, Ms. Hanna Shalgi, and Prof. Benjamin Oren. Master classes and lessons in the U.S. and Europe included work with jazz and classical pianists such as Richard Goode, Brad Mehldau, Robert McDonald, and Sonia Rubinsky.

In December 2009. Yaniv came to New York to study with pianist Pavlina Dokovska and in the fall of 2010, he moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas to study with pianist Jura Margulis in the piano performance program at the University of Arkansas. Yaniv’s work with Jura Margulis included lessons at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg Austria.
Yaniv has performed extensively at different venues and Festivals around the world such as, the Salle Cortot hall, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Tel Aviv Museum, Bern Jazz Festival, Kfar Blum International Chamber Music Festival, Borja Jazz Festival, The Walton Art Center, The DiMenna Center For Classical Music, and live performance broadcasts on NPR affiliate, KUAF, 91.3 FM, to name a few.

Yaniv has played and performed with musicians such as Ronald McClure, Anat Cohen, Ari Hoenig, David Schnitter, Roswell Rudd, Orlando Le Fleming, Murray Wall, David Glasser, Ferenc Nemeth, Will Vinson, Rory Stuart, and Adriano Santos among many others.

Here from There, which was released in December 2014 on Fresh Sound Records, is Yaniv’s debut album as a leader which was well received by the press. The album was recorded in January 2013 and it features Darren Novotny on drums and Garrett Jones on bass, both Arkansas Native musicians.

In August of 2013, Yaniv moved to New York City where he has received a scholarship to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music and graduated with a BFA degree. Currently, Yaniv performs and records regularly in New York and internationally with numerous projects, both as a leader and as a sideman.

The Yaniv Taubenhouse Trio, featuring Rick Rosato (bass) and Jerad Lippi (drums), comes from a long lineage of musical influences both in and out of the jazz world.
The group's repertoire features originals by Taubenhouse, Rosato and Lippi as well as standards, with the on-edge embrace of virtuosic chops, the tender love of melody driven ballads, groove oriented percussion, as well as a number of fully developed thematic suites more akin to traditional classical forms than jazz.

Moments in Trio - Volume One is the first one in a series of recordings of the trio which was released on Fresh Sound Records and has received rave reviews. In addition, the trio collaborated on an album with French jazz singer, Sarah Eden, which was released on Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd. Perpetuation - Moments in Trio Volume Two was released on Fresh Sound Records in January 2019 to highly acclaimed reviews.