Gyan Riley

"Beautiful and enigmatic"…"an alluringly intimate vibe created from the first note."
-The New York Times

"Gyan Riley is a one-man American-music machine, amicably ranging across the fields of jazz, world music, and post-minimalism."
-The New Yorker

October 31st, 2022

Heading out tonight for the last run of 2022 with Arooj Aftab!

November 1 – Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon, Portugal

November 2 – Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal

November 3 – Sala Galileo, Madrid, Spain

November 4 – Trekanten, Oslo, Norway

November 5 – Iceland Airwaves Music Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland

November 8 – Inkonst, Malmö, Sweden

November 9 – Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen, Denmark

November 12 – Rocket Festival, Da Groningen, Netherlands

November 13 – Sonic City Festival, Kortrijk, Belgium

November 15 – Gannett, Basel, Switzerland

November 19 – Silent Green – Kuppelhalle, Berlin, Germany 

November 21 –  Pitchfork Music Festival, Paris, France

November 24 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands

November 25 – Korzo Theater, Den Haag, Netherlands

November 26 – Babylon, Istanbul, Turkey

June 13th, 2022

 Gyan Riley Summer Shows

6/15 Gyan solo at Greene Space, NY Guitar Festival. Opening for Bill Frisell

Tour with Arooj Aftab:

6/24 Glastonbury Festival, UK 

6/25 Rock in Rio, Lisbon, PT

6/26 Palacio de Pena, Sintra, PT 

6/28 Braga, PT 

6/30 Roskilde Festival, DK 

7/1 Fnac Live, Paris, FR

7/3 Down the Rabbit Hole, Ewijk, NL

7/5 Montreal Jazz Festival, QC 

7/7 Festival d’ete de Quebec, QC 

7/8 Axis Club, Toronto, ON

7/9 Winnipeg Folk Festival, MB 

7/10 Winnipeg Folk Festival, MB  

7/13 Indian Summer Festival, Vancouver, BC 

7/15 Pitchfork Festival, Chicago,  IL 

7/18 Molde Jazz Festival, NO (with Bill Frisell and Julian Lage)

7/20 Molde Jazz Festival, NO (with Julian Lage) 

7/22 Newport Folk Festival, RI 

7/25 Salaam Festival, Manchester, UK 

8/2 Bari,IT

8/3 Festival Suoni Controvento, Gubbio, IT 

8/4 Teatro Sociale Capovolto, Trento, IT

8/6 OFF Festival, Katowice, PL 

8/7 Divadlo Archa, Prague, CZ 

8/9 Sogodbe Series, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, SL

8/12 Way Out West Festival, Gothenburg, SE 

8/13 Mela Festival, Oslo, NO

8/15 Helsinki, FI 

8/17 Winterthurer Musikfestwochen, CH 

8/18 Jazzweek, Cologne, DE 

8/20 Green Man, Wales, UK

8/21 Edinburgh International Festival, UK 

8/23 Kampnagel Sommerfest, Hamburg, DE 

8/24 Pop Kultur Festival, Berlin, DE 

8/27 This Aint No Picnic Festival, Pasadena, CA 

8/28 THING Festival, Seattle, WA 

9/2 Miller Outdoor Theater, Houston, TX 

9/3 Here and There Festival, Denver, CO

9/4 Tucson, AZ 

9/22 Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY 

9/24 Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA

June 7th, 2022

I’ll be on tour the whole summer in Europe, Canada and the US, and look forward to seeing you folks along the way!

May 9th, 2022

May 9th, 2022

Nice feature in this month’s AG!   

February 2nd, 2022

Well folks, the doors to live performance have once again opened up and I’m excited to get back on the road. Many more to be added soon, but for now here’s my upcoming schedule…hope to see you at a one of these soon! -Gyan

September 1st, 2021

Sheet music from the following compositions featured on Silver Lining is now available! Please send a PayPal payment to gyan@gyanriley.com with a note indicating which scores you’d like, and your scores will be emailed as PDF files asap.  Thank you!

Silver Lining (for Dušan Bogdanovic)   $15

Three Fragments from Within (for David Tanenbaum)  $25

    i. Broken Record

    ii. Toucher les Nuages

    iii. Appa-Tango

Sparkling Pines (for Julian Bream)  $20

Sometimes You Go Back for More (for Kenton Youngstrom)  $25

Cyclone (for Aniello Desiderio)  $20

The Old Castle (for John Zorn)  

    *for two guitars

August 6th, 2021

Attention Bay Area folks! Our concert at the Freight and Salvage was postponed, so we have organized a last-minute replacement OUTDOOR concert at a beautiful home in the Berkeley Hills (only 8 min from the Freight!). The show is on Sat. Aug. 7th at 2:00pm (doors at 1:30pm). We will return to the Freight but not for at least a year. Hope to see you Saturday! Please pay in advance HERE.

July 21st, 2021

The video for my piece Sparkling Pines just premiered on YouTube as part of the New York Guitar Festival’s Tribute to the late Julian Bream. This was beautifully recorded by EbbTide Sound (https://ebbtidesound.com), with video by David Spelman.

June 23rd, 2021

My new solo album SILVER LINING was just released today! Also available on Amazon and Tzadik.com.  It is a collection of dedications to many of my musical mentors, and a reflection on the unexpectedly good things that for me have grown out of the hardships of the pandemic: new experiences, lessons learned, skills acquired, creative solutions, and adaptation inspired by necessity.   

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