David DeMotta

Biography

David DeMotta is a pianist and music scholar specializing in jazz. He holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and M.M. and B.A. degrees in Jazz Studies and Performance from William Paterson University of New Jersey. His research focuses on the musical and historical analysis of modern jazz and his work has been published in Jazz Perspectives. Dr. DeMotta is active as a freelance jazz pianist in the New York City area. He leads a trio and an octet, and has performed with Eliot Zigmund, Steve Wilson, Steve Slagle, Steve Johns, Alexis Cole, Andromeda Turre, Bill Moring, Erica Seguine, Meg Okura, The Meeting House Jazz Orchestra, The Greg Ruvolo Jazz Collective, Haruna Fukuzawa, and others.