Results for "Clarinet"

Annette Maye

Annette Maye was born in Flensburg. After graduating from high school, she first completed a course in Eastern European history, musicology and Russian at the University of Freiburg. In 2000 she completed her contact studies in popular music (pop course) at the Hamburg University of Music. She then studied jazz clarinet and bass clarinet at the music academies in Cologne and Paris (2001-2005) with Frank Gratkowski, Claudio Puntin and Riccardo del Fra. She graduated from jazz in 2005 with a diploma.

Awards: In the year 2016 Annette Maye was awarded the NRW Female Prize by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in cooperation with the WDR Jazz Prize. Before, he had won the SWR world music award “querBeet” with ensemble FisFüz in 1998, and in 2006 she had received the Torneo Internazionale di Musica (TIM) award in Rome in the jazz category.

Nathan Tokunaga

Born: December, 2006

Nathan Tokunaga is a clarinetist and saxophonist from the San Francisco Bay Area, now studying and performing in New York City. Inspired by early jazz and continually exploring new musical boundaries, his music engages audiences across generations, bringing the joy and spirit of swing to today’s listeners. Tokunaga has performed hundreds of concerts at clubs, swing dances, festivals, and concert halls, and was named a 2026 YoungArts winner in jazz clarinet.

Martí Mitjavila

Born: September 1, 2000

Martí Mitjavila, born in Barcelona in 2000, is a young jazz clarinetist and saxophonist currently based in Amsterdam. He began exploring jazz at an early age, inspired by his father's record collection. Martí holds a Bachelor and a Masters Degree from the Conservatory of Amsterdam. He has studied with renowned musicians such as Ben van Gelder, Simon Rigter, Joris Roelofs, Jasper Blom, George Coleman, Dick Oatts and Reggie Workman.

Throughout his career, Martí has performed across Europe at notable events, including the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Grachtenfestival in Amsterdam, the Bimhuis Rough Diamonds Series, and jazz festivals in Breda, Heerde, and Vic.

Larry Stabbins

Born: September 9, 1949

Larry Stabbins was born in Bristol where he started learning clarinet at the age of eight then soprano saxophone at nine and graduating to tenor sax at ten. He did his first paid gig in his father's dance band at twelve and started a long association with pianist Keith Tippett when he was sixteen and Keith eighteen at the legendary Dugout Club in Bristol. At the same time he served his musical apprenticeship in local dancehall resident bands and countless soul bands.  He later contributed to many of Tippett's projects such as Centipede, Ark, Tapestry and the Septet. In addition to occasional duo performances, in the mid-eighties they also worked for a several years  as a trio  with percussionist Louis Moholo recording the album "Tern" on FMP, while Tippett was himself involved in various Working Week and Weekend activities and Keith's wife Julie sang on the fourth Working Week album.

Christopher Balk

The Jellyfish

The Jellyfish is a new ensemble brought together by saxophonist/clarinetist, Jacob Gorzhaltsan. The ensemble is rounded out by Ravi Naimpally (tabla) and Ewen Farncombe (keys). The music of the band is fully improvised or composed on the spot, blending a variety of influences, instruments, rhythms and sounds from around the world in a loop-based musical setting. With an emphasis on interaction and communication between musicians, the Jellyfish takes listeners on a musical, explorative, and psychedelic journey of spontaneous composition, with the band usually performing in a continuous hour and a half experience of free-flowing improvisation.

Around About Dusk

Active since: 2018

Around About Dusk blends New Orleans jazz, European folk, roots and blues influences into a captivating, atmospheric sound. Their music weaves enchanting melodies and harmonies that tell stories of wonder, nature, humanity and heartache. With harmonies, macabre humour and familiar folklore tales, they conjure the romance of old cafés, the spirit of New Orleans porches, and the intimacy of campfire songs.

With performances at festivals including Glastonbury, Cambridge Folk Festival, Bristol Folk Festival, and Secret Garden Party, as well as European tours, Around About Dusk brings charm, authenticity, and a distinctive presence to every stage

Stefan Karl Schmid

Stefan Karl Schmid is "without question one of the most intereting saxophonists of the young German jazz scene" (jazzandrock.com). With "a sound language full of nuances" (Kölner Stadtanzeiger) and an always "alert intellect" (DLF), the half-Icelandic, half-German has already "found his own personal style" (Mannheimer Morgen). He implements this style with great detail and virtuosity in diverse projects and ensembles, both as a saxophonist/ clarinettist and as a composer.

Schmid spreads his artistic work over various formations, which he leads partly alone, partly together with his band colleagues. From the intimate duo with pianist Lars Duppler, to trio and quartet formations (MUSE & Schmid's Huhn), to large ensembles such as his octet Pyjama or the Subway Jazz Orchestra, he impresses both playfully and compositionally with a "masterful sound language full of nuances that can be savoured with all the senses" (H.P. Koll).

Hillai Govreen

Hillai Govreen is a clarinetist, saxophonist and composer based in New York. Hillai’s upcoming album Every Other Now is a collaboration with bassist/composer Ben Meigners, and features some notable names of the NY music scene such as Steve Cardenas (guitar), Eric McPherson (drums), Café Da Silva (percussion) among others. The album is set to be released in August 2025 under the Fresh Sound label.

Her previous album “Allusions” (2021) is a duet with pianist Nitsan Kolko. Their duet feature spontaneous musical dialogue and alludes to various ancient fables. In addition, Hillai arranged music for a nonet consisting of strings and woodwinds.  

Vincent Thekal

Born: January 27, 1982

« Few tenors in the 21st century have captured the expanse between beauty and complexity quite like Thekal« : when Ron Hart reviewed Brussels-based Vincent Thekal‘s latest trio record in DownBeat Magazine, the critically acclaimed ‘Origami’ (Hypnote, 2018), he expressed what many listeners have been experiencing listening to his impressive musicality.

His new album, « Monk’s Mood » (Hypnote 2023), with major europeans musicians, already impresses with its rereading of Thelonious Monk’s repertoire.

In addition Vincent has played with Bob Mover, Godwin Louis, Jerome Sabbagh, David Bryant, Franck Agulhon, Dre Pallemaerts, Bo Van Der Werf, Fabian Fiorini and Jean Louis Rassinfosse among other.