In this hybrid lecture/performance, accomplished pianist Rocco Dapice will describe and demonstrate different ways that dissonance and resolution are created by composers and musicians and how they mirror our life experience. In official music terms, this involves cadences, consonant vs. dissonant intervals, and chord qualities. Using samples mostly from the jazz genre, he’ll show how musical dissonance parallels the cadences, tensions, and resolutions in life — which we can all relate to.

About the performer: Rocco Dapice is a pianist, teacher, writer, YAMAHA Performing Artist, and graduate of the Manhattan School of Music. He is on the faculty of the Manhattan School’s summer program and New Visions School for Advanced Math & Science; is a teaching artist for MSM’s Distance Learning center; and teaches privately. Rocco has performed widely in over 390 cities, communicating in word and song in 45 of the 50 states, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Rocco is a member of ASCAP, the Jazz Education Network (JEN), and the National Assn. of Record Industry Professionals.