Results for "Neoclassical"

Fiona Joy Hawkins

Born: January 21, 1964

Australian classically trained composer, pianist and singer inspired by her Celtic heritage.  Her work crosses from Neoclassical to New Age, Celtic and Jazz.

"My wish is to open more hearts to the power of music and its ability to create change.   Now more than ever we need the connection to our past to find the pathway to our future”.

Fiona's work often highlights the beauty of this planet and how we preserve this for future generations.

Living in rural Australia (Kendall NSW), Fiona has played NY Carnegie Hall, New Orleans Jazz Museum, Sydney Opera House, Echoes/PR Radio, Grammy Museum and over 30 concert halls in China.

Jacques Bailhé

Raised in Wilton, Connecticut until thirteen when family moved to Thailand. Attended International School in Bangkok. Started playing drums in bands—parties, clubs, backed up a fire-breathing stripper in a roller rink. Parents soundly discouraged pursuing music, though my grandfather, George Bailhé, made a career as a pianist and arranger for Cecil B. DeMille. Took up electric bass. Followed Beatles, Hendrix, Traffic, Aretha, Smokey Robinson, then dove into jazz: Mingus, Brubeck, Getz, Monk, and later, Miles Davis, Weather Report and Joni Mitchell. Took sitar lessons in Benares, India and Kathmandu, then became a monk. Ordained as a novice Buddhist priest in the Patriarch's temple in Bangkok. Moved Wat Chedi Luang, a temple from the 1300's in Chiengmai, Thailand Chanting prayers is an intriguing way to experience the overtone series.

Mikkel Borrisholt Grevsen

Born: July 21, 1987

Grevsen has been playing music since he was 7 years old. Started in a marching band on bariton horn and trumpet. He spent the first 13 years of his musical career in the marching band and gained a great knowledge of the brass genre. Graduated from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory from 2009-2015. In 2011 he won the Danish Youth Jazz Competition with the trash-jazz band “Interfoam”. Later on, the band published “Breeding”. Composer and musician at spoken word-projects: “Rystet Spejl. Musik og poesi” (Gyldendal / Sony Music, 2013), “POWER” (Gyldendal / Sony Music, 2016) and “I vintersolen” (Blue Blitz Music, 2022) by Søren Ulrik Thomsen & Det Glemte Kvarter. In 2019 he released “Når nogen rammer jorden” (Tambourhinoceros) with INTET ALTID. He has done projects with the Aarhus Sinfonietta and the string ensemble Who Killed Bambi.

Louis de Mieulle

Born: May 29

Paris born bassist-composer Louis de Mieulle started his musical education at 7, playing the cello. Rebellion through rock’n’roll bass guitar. Eventually graduated from the National Conservatory of Paris (classical writing). In 2006, won a composition contest in Tours (Fr) with the opera “Tres Para Una”, co-written with Augustin d’Assignies and Edward Greaves. Moved to the Land of Donald to attend the Berklee College of Music. Now between NYC leading his own band, and France as a member of Moonsüün. 2011: first solo album “Defense Mechanisms”. Recorded in Brooklyn with Berklee comrades Matt Garstka (drums) and Casimir Liberski (piano)

Daniel & Mikael Tjernberg

Daniel and Mikael started to write music together at an early age. The music soon became distinguished in its style, with the brothers blending different musical genres, such as orchestral classical, jazz and ambient, and making them interact in a musical context with a very personal musical mark. They became recording artists, writing for album releases as well as for film/TV and other medias.