Results for "Clarinet"

Kinan Azmeh

Hailed as a “Virtuoso” and “Intensely Soulful” by the New York Times and “Spellbinding” by the New Yorker, and “Incredibly Rich Sound” by the CBC. His utterly distinctive sound across different musical genres has gained him international recognition as clarinetist and composer. Kinan was recently named composer-in-residence with Classical Movements for the 2017-2018 season.

Kinan has been touring the world as soloist, composer and improviser. Notable appearances include: Opera Bastille, Paris; Tchaikovsky Grand Hall, Moscow; Carnegie Hall and the UN’s general assembly, New York; the Royal Albert hall, London; Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires; der Philharmonie; Berlin; the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, Washington DC; the Mozarteum, Salzburg, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie and the Damascus opera house for its opening concert in his native Syria.

Gábor Winand

Gábor Winand started his musical studies on the clarinet, and then after finishing primary school turned to singing. At the age of 19 he was admitted to the jazz department of the Bartók Béla Conservatory, where his teacher was Attila Garai. After completing the school he soon found himself in the band of Gyula Babos, one of the great personalities of the Hungarian jazz world. After meeting Gábor Gadó in 1990, he started to work with his band Joy, and they made successful appearances at many festivals. Later he often played with the Trio Stendhal, led by the saxophonist László Dés, with the ESP orchestra, led by the trombonist László Goz, and with the pianist György Vukán

Flying Fish Jumps

Active since: January 1, 2002

THE FLYING FISH JUMPS is constantly moving on, probably the best signed band on today's Belgian Jazz scene.

ROAD TRIP, the first release of the Belgian modern and mad jazz quartet, FLYING FISH JUMPS is now taking us to another dimension.

Their nickname, aliens in weightlessness, FLYING FISH JUMPS provides one of the best belgian contemporary jazz on the actual music scene in Brussels.

FFJ plays a visionary music, timeless and accessible by a wide audience, ROAD TRIP's concept reflects their backgrounds, influences and integrates the roots and the new world musics : Hip-hop, classic, progressive rock...
From Standards to Underground, Freaky to Groovy waves..

Nico Gori

Born: September 13, 1975

Born in Florence (Italy) on September 13, 1975, started studying clarinet at the age of 6, graduating from the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence in 1993. He continued to perfect his art by attending seminars held by famous jazz musicians such as Dave Liebman, Tony Scott etc., performing, since 1987, in theatres, clubs, festivals, and on Italian RAI Television broadcasts. He has given many concerts as a soloist as well as performing in big bands, symphonic orchestras and jazz groups both as leader or as sideman in situations ranging from classical music to jazz, from funk music to acid jazz. He has recorded, since 1998, with many jazz, funk and pop groups as well as collaborating in the realization of jingles and tunes for TV

Aaron Novik

Aaron Novik is a recent New York transplant that lived and performed in the bay area (San Francisco, Oakland etc.) for 17 years. There he lead the bands Gubbish, Kipple, Floating World, Love Triangle Elementary School, Simulacra, Thorny Brocky and made records under his own name as well, including the album “Secrets of Secrets” which was released on Tzadik records in 2012. Aaron also performed with the bass clarinet quartet Edmund Welles, the Nathan Clevenger Group, Telepathy, Colin Stetson’s Transmission, Graham Connah and most notably in Fred Frith’s Gravity band, which has played festivals around the world. He currently lives in Woodside, Queens and leads several ensembles including No Signal, O+O+, and Dante Counterstamp

Beth Fleenor

Composer, clarinetist, and raucous vocal percussionist Beth Fleenor harbors a strong love for variety and all sonic manipulation, moving freely through genres such as jazz, rock, classical, contemporary chamber, Slavic & American folk, metal, musique concrete, ambient, noise & pop. Her work has been heard internationally from 100,000 seat festivals, maximum-security prisons, rural bars, art galleries, bunkers, sidewalks, sacred spaces, and some of the most prestigious concert halls, museums, clubs and theaters in the country - in live music, recording, theater, dance, installation, and film. Believing that "art is the discipline of being," Fleenor uses sound to open the channels of communication between and within individuals and environments

Raffaele Amenta

Raffaele Amenta plays saxophone and clarinet. He studied in Bologna. Raffaele Amenta also teaches music at Cultural Association "La Barberia" in Bologna. Took his first steps as a professional in 2007 and founded the jazz quartet "ProgettoLigeia". The band's music focuses on the compositions of Thelonious Monk and original compositions of their own. In 2009 as the "Raphael Amenta 4tet" working on original compositions that include extensive use of the resources offered by free improvisation. The quartet released a cd "Human Being". In the same period to keep the sax solo concerts. At sax solo record music for the film "Memoriale", and the music for the film "Le Corbusier in Calabria." Since 2010 he plays with 'klezmer orchestra "Ozhidanie" and "Barbesitos"

Bernie Holden

Born: June 5, 1938

Bernie found he could play tunes by ear on the recorder and mouth organ from the age of about 6 and had piano lessons for two years starting about 10. Took up clarinet in the school orchestra at 13 and by 16 was playing in local jazz bands and at 20 had made at least three TV appearances. Despite the opportunity to join a full time professional band at 21 decided to remain semi professional until more recently when he decided to do a music degree and obtained a BA Hons in Jazz at Middlesex. Established on the London jazz scene and played in New York and at many international jazz festivals including Kathmandu, Cork and North Sea

Dr. Joseph D. Howell

Born: December 16, 1980

"...A brilliant virtuoso whose complete control over the clarinet and originality as both an improviser and a composer are very impressive..." - Scott Yanow, world-famous jazz writer Dr. Joseph D. Howell has gone from being a mostly self- taught musician from a poor small-town family to earning a Doctor of Musical Arts from a prestigious conservatory. Today he professionally performs, composes, and teaches music of many styles and instruments while maintaining an artistic focus on jazz clarinet and sax. Joseph Howell grew up in the rural town of Porterville, California

Todd Brunel

Born: August 23, 1968

Todd Brunel is a clarinetist, sax player, composer and producer who performs extensively as a classical and jazz musician. He is a member of the Armenian folk jazz project Musaner, Know Orchestra, the Eric Hofbauer Quintet, Made in the Shade, the Sonic Explorers and the avante-funk band, The Circadian Rhythm Kings. He is the director of the Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music and has been awarded grants by the Somerville, Cambridge, Arlington and Massachusetts Cultural Councils. In 2012, he formed Opal Ensemble with pianist Paul Carlson and violist Anne Black, a group dedicated to discovering new 20th and 21st century repertoire and often neglected works of the past