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Ariel Kasler
Jazz guitarist and pianist based in Bowling Green, OH
About Me
Guitarist and pianist Ariel Kasler leads the Ariel Kasler Quintet, which has released the albums Make it
Bloom (2022) and Above the Sound (2015), featuring original compositions and arrangements. With
the Thompson-Kasler Duo, he performs and commissions contemporary music for electric guitar and
saxophone with saxophonist Bobbi Thompson. Ariel is the pianist for the Toledo Jazz Orchestra and
plays piano and guitar with the BGSU Jazz Faculty Ensemble. Since 2022, he has run a guitar duo
series, featuring guitarists from Ohio and Michigan.
Ariel holds a Master of Music in Jazz Performance from Bowling Green State University, a Bachelor of
Music from Berklee College of Music, and an Alexander Technique Teaching Certificate from the
Toronto School of the Alexander Technique.
Ariel is currently an Associate Teaching Professor at BGSU, where he has been teaching since 2015.
His duties there include teaching applied jazz piano and guitar, Alexander Technique, various
ensembles and jazz courses, and serving as artistic director of
the Orchard Guitar Festival.
