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Leap of Faith Orchestra

Born: August 31, 1964

Texture and Transformation: PEK & His Grand Aesthetic Challenge PEK (aka David Peck) is a multi-instrument improviser who plays all kinds of instruments including saxophones, clarinets, double reeds, percussion, electronics and auxiliary sound making devices of all kinds. PEK was born in 1964 and started playing clarinet and piano in elementary school. In 7th grade he started saxophones, first on alto, then switching to tenor in high school. He spent 10 years playing in rock bands and studying classical and jazz saxophone with Kurt Heisig in the San Jose CA area before moving to Boston in 1989 to attend Berklee where he studied performance with George Garzone

PEK

Born: August 31, 1964

Texture and Transformation: PEK & His Grand Aesthetic Challenge PEK (aka David Peck) is a multi-instrument improviser who plays all kinds of instruments including saxophones, clarinets, double reeds, percussion, electronics and auxiliary sound making devices of all kinds. PEK was born in 1964 and started playing clarinet and piano in elementary school. In 7th grade he started saxophones, first on alto, then switching to tenor in high school. He spent 10 years playing in rock bands and studying classical and jazz saxophone with Kurt Heisig in the San Jose CA area before moving to Boston in 1989 to attend Berklee where he studied performance with George Garzone

David Fox

Drummer Dave Fox has worked with a wide variety of aritsts over the past two decades such as Stan Strickland, Harvey Diamond, Dave Tronzo, Charles Neville, Lydia Warren, Brad Faucher/Session450 and Matthew Stubbs and The Antiguas. Dave has also worked extensively with two-time Grammy Award winning songwriter, producer and musician Tom Hambridge and his band “The Rattlesnakes”. With Tom Hambridge and The Rattlesnakes, Dave has shared the stage with the likes of Buddy Guy, Marty Sammon and Quinn Sullivan. In addition to the The Rattlesnakes, he is a current member of The Gravel Project, The Stan Strickland/Josh Rosen Quartet, Andrew Stern’s AS3 and the DAQ

David Arteaga

Born: July 22, 1969

Captivated by the transformational power of sound from his earliest years, David began music lessons that the tender age of 7 on clarinet. In the early years of high school he worked as a clerk at the Academy of Musical Arts in his hometown of Montclair, New Jersey to fund his musical education. During this time he steadily developed a growing passion for masterpieces of the “serious” literature, most especially the string quartets of Beethoven and the New Viennese School. His wind quintet earned him acceptance as a student of composition at the New England Conservatory, where he studied composition under Robert Ceely, and crossed paths with many towering figures of music including Robert McKinley, Jackie Byard and Gunther Schuller among others

Christopher Bonnier Pitts

Born: November 14

Steeped in Post Bop and Blues, Detroit saxophonist Chris Pitts made Manhattan, San Francisco and Paris his homes before moving to Boston. His bands have always featured energetic rhythm sections and adventurous music.

He has performed at major jazz festivals and clubs in North America and Europe and played with jazz notables; Thad Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Foster, Clark Terry, Phil Woods, Jon Fadis, Regina Carter, James Carter, Betty Carter, Bob Hurst, Kenny Garrett, Roy Brooks, Ralph Armstrong, Marcus Belgrave, Rodney Whitaker, Danny Spencer, Rick Margitza, Kim Nalley, Eula Lawrence, John Handy, Eddie Marshall, Madeline Eastman, Kitty Margolis, Bruce Forman,  Mike Clark, Tim Hagans, J.C. Heard, Grover Washington Jr., Lyman Woodard, Ronnie Cuber, Steve Slagel, Yuron Israel, Charles Boles, Sam Sanders, Jaribu Shahid, Ralph Peterson, Alexei Tsiganov, John Lockwood, Wes Wirth, Kenwood Denard, and Warren Gale. He also opened for Ornette Coleman and Art Blakey.

Dor Herskovits

Dor Herskovits is an Israeli drummer based in Boston. 
 He began pursuing his passion for music at the age of 14, studying drumming and guitar. Dor studied in Rimon School of Music in Israel, while performing with top local artists in the Israeli Jazz scene. In 2010 Dor transferred to Berklee College of Music on an international scholarship. After completing his Bachelor’s degree at Berklee, Dor had spent a year in New York exploring the affluent jazz scene and performing and teaching. During that year he had also participated in the semi-finals of the prestigious Thelonious Monk Jazz drummer competition. Recently, Dor had completed his Masters degree in jazz performance at the New England Conservatory

Henry Acker

Henry Acker is a young powerhouse jazz guitarist in the style of Django Reinhardt and with abilities far beyond his years. After playing for only six years, he has already shared the stage with jazz greats Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Vignola, Julian Lage, Vic Juris, Jimmy Bruno and Andreas Oberg as well as Gypsy Jazz legends Samson Schmitt, Mozes Rosenberg, Adrien Moignard, Joscho Stephane, Olli Soikkeli, Bireli Lagrene, Gonzalo Bergara, Stephane Wrembel, Antoine Boyer and Jason Anick. He is the winner of the 2017 Djangofest North West Saga Award and is a five time winner of the Downbeat Magazine Student Award for jazz guitar soloist

Paul Lawrence

Born: April 14, 1967

Kevin Sun

Born: November 27, 1991

Kevin Sun is a saxophonist and composer living in New York City. His music has been called “...intense, harmonically virtuosic and compositionally complex" by DownBeat Magazine, and he has released seven albums to date—most recently, Quartets, in October 2024.

Sun has also recorded four albums with the ensembles Mute, Earprint, and Great On Paper, and he appears on recordings led by Jacob Garchik, Dana Saul, Xiongguan Zhang, and Elijah Shiffer.

In addition to performing in the U.S., Sun has performed extensively in China and has served as the Artistic Director of the Blue Note China Jazz Orchestra