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Brent Charles

Born: August 19

From inspiring concerts to joy-filled society weddings and fund-raising galas, Brent Charles may be found providing live entertainment locally and internationally.

This unique vocalist, originally from Long Island, New York with Trinidadian roots, sprouts from a large musical family that spans the globe. Demonstrating deep warm tones to a vibrant whistle register with a vocal range of more than four octaves, Brent Charles sings in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Hebrew and has a musical range from Pavarotti, Sinatra and Barry White to Ne-Yo, Prince, Phillip Bailey, and Bruno Mars.

Lorenzo Cellupica

Born: August 16, 1992

Lorenzo Cellupica was born in 1992 in Frosinone (Italy). He’s a pianist, keyboardist, composer and music teacher from Isola del Liri (Frosinone). He began to study at a local music school and carried on his own from the age of 13 till 25. His studies ranged from classical music to jazz, from rock to pop. In 2011 he won a contest for emerging bands in Alvito (FR) called Non solo Jazz (“Not Only Jazz”) with his band Yellowcake. In 2015 he was chosen as the best musicians by the newspaper TG24 for partecipating at a contest organised by the music school Industrie Sonore in Isola del Liri, where he played some original compositions for piano solo

Patrick Zimmerli

Patrick Zimmerli is a New York- and Paris-based composer, producer, and saxophonist. His 2019 CD Sun on Sand, with Joshua Redman and the string quartet Brooklyn Rider, was released on Nonesuch Recordings. This marks his third collaboration with Nonesuch, following Modern Music, with Kevin Hays and Brad Mehldau, and Redman’s Walking Shadows. In 2021 he released Book of Dreams on Newvelle.

Since winning the inaugural Thelonious Monk Composers Competition in 1993, he has written, recorded and performed with leading lights in the classical and jazz worlds.

Willie Oteri

"I'm mostly self taught. I learned Jazz on the street as well as rock and blues. If you are fine with that then we can talk. I'm fine with it." Already established as a guitarist why change horses? Why not? Is reinvention a key to the creative process? Oteri explains, “I've always been an explorer and this need for change drives me to new frontiers. While some are cautious about change for me it's about accepting it.” Oteri's flute and sax work became his focus recently after a purchase of a new flute in 2016 and a couple of tenor saxes in early 2017

Kristina Socanski

Born: November 21, 1990

Kristina Socanski is a Serbian-Norwegian pianist and a diverse musician who explores both classical and modern repertoire. She performs regularly as a soloist, chamber musician and a collaborative pianist, in Norway and abroad. Kristina holds official degrees in piano performance from The Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and The Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. In 2019 she graduated from the “soloist class”, the advanced postgraduate program at RDAM in Copenhagen, specializing in chamber music and accompaniment. The most valuable musical impulses, she obtained through studies with professors Håkon Austbø, Einar Smebye and Niklas Sivelöv

Barba Negri Ziliani

BARBA NEGRI ZILIANI is the trio formed by Riccardo Barba (piano), Federico Negri (drums) and Nicola Ziliani (double bass). The group was born after years of collaboration in projects ranging from contemporary classical music through jazz and author's music. Combining the different experiences and studies of the three musicians, the trio was officially born in 2019 and released their first album TOO MANY KEYS in 2020. ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERGROUND is the second album by the trio BARBA NEGRI ZILIANI. After the first album and a sound research aimed at electronic experimentation and the contamination between structural elements of classical music, the sounds of rock music and the insertion of synthesizers and electronics all based on the classic formation of the piano trio, the group has crystallized in this new work the results of that research.

Maria Damore

Born: December 10, 1962

Maria Damore is a vocalist and private voice teacher from Berks County, PA, and 2022 recipient of the Berks Jazz Fest Frank Scott award for contributions to Berks County’s Jazz Heritage. Maria has been an educator for Olivet Boys & Girls Club, adjudicator for vocal competitions, and clinician for GetJazzED, Berks-Vocal Day. She has been featured in Classical Singer magazine, discussing her work in the original children’s jazz-opera, The Bear Prince, and her Greek folk music duo “Stavros & Maria.” Known as a versatile singer who easily crosses genres, Maria was thrilled to compete as a quarterfinalist in the 2018 American Traditions Vocal Competition in Savannah, Georgia

Francis Jocky

Multitalented singer, songwriter, producer & actor, Francis Jocky is something of an enigma, an artist with universal appeal and blessed with a unique voice. Raised in Paris, France and now living in New York City, Francis Jocky has developed a sound that transcends borders.

He’s rapidly becoming an international personality, sharing the microphone with the likes of Bono of U2 and Stevie Wonder, just to name a few.

From an early age he learned to express himself through music and by the age of twelve had begun playing piano and writing his own songs

Jesse Dietschi

Born: 1987

The worlds of classical and jazz collide as Canadian bassist Jesse Dietschi presents works that defy genre. With credits ranging from orchestral soloist to jazz session player, Dietschi is equally fluent in both musical idioms as a bassist, composer, and bandleader. He has toured globally with artists and groups including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Nick Maclean Quartet, Tunnel Six, Abraxas, and Ken Lavigne, and is the Principal Bassist of the string orchestra Sinfonia Toronto. Dietschi performs frequently with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Canadian Opera Company as an extra section bassist, jazz bassist, and electric bassist, and has served as guest Principal Bassist with the Niagara Symphony. He will be releasing his debut recording as a bandleader, Gradient, in October 2023.