Results for "Composer / Arranger"

David Laborier

Born: April 17, 1975

David Laborier is an accomplished guitarist, composer, and arranger whose career spans performance, education, and recording. He studied jazz guitar at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, Berklee College of Music, and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

Currently, David serves as Professor of Jazz Studies and Head of the Jazz and Pop-Rock Department at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg. His contributions to jazz education include the publication of his two-part jazz theory method Cogs and Wheels (2021).

As a recording artist and bandleader, David has released five albums under the WPR Jazz label. His big band project Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Band earned top honors in the Jazz category at the 2010 International Songwriting Competition. His album NE:X:T received two nominations at the 17th Independent Music Awards.

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Chiara Izzi

Born: May 22

Based in New York City since 2014, Chiara Izzi is an award-winning jazz singer and composer from Italy who has captivated audiences worldwide. Her breakthrough came when she won first prize at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival Vocal Competition, a victory personally awarded by the legendary Quincy Jones, who chaired the jury. The following year, Chiara returned to the festival to perform and open for the iconic Paco de Lucía. She has since earned numerous accolades, including an Independent Music Award for Best Jazz Song with Vocals for her composition "Circles of the Mind," as well as national honors such as Lucca Jazz Donna, third place in the Chicco Bettinardi soloist category, and recognition in the Barga Jazz group category.

Adam Rose

Born: 1984

Adam has travelled from Philly to NYC to California to North Carolina, taking his guitar and his passion for music with him.  He's performed at famed NYC jazz venues Smalls, Smoke, Cleopatra's Needle, Lincoln Center; indie rock venues the Mercury Lounge, Pianos, and Lit...  

He was an active member of the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society and performed for Jason Vieux at Curtis Institute.  

He's jammed with Branford Marsalis, Mickey Roker, Byron Landham, Jimmy Bruno and other great jazz musicians.  

His compositions, featuring electronic, virtual and acoustic instruments have been featured in film + television.   

Gunilla Törnfeldt

Born: June 19, 1980

Gunilla Törnfeldt is a jazz vocalist, composer, and educator based in Stockholm. Her career took off in 2002, when she began performing with leading Swedish jazz artists including Monica Dominique Quintet, Carl-Axel Dominique Trio, Georg Riedel, Jan Allan, and Ove Lundin. Since then, she has become a distinctive voice on the Swedish jazz scene as a singer, composer, and arranger. In 2006, she was awarded the Fasching Friends’ Scholarship for “seriously and with strong dedication striving to renew and develop jazz music and related genres.” Her critically acclaimed solo debut A Time for Everything (2009) was followed by Behind the Mask (2017).

Chelsea McBride

Born: January 15, 1992

Driven by an endless need for expressing herself creatively, composer and multi-instrumentalist Chelsea McBride is establishing herself as a mainstay of the Canadian and American jazz scenes. Now based between Miami and Vancouver, McBride made her first international trip guest conducting at the 2019 Perth International Jazz Festival and Sydney International Women’s Jazz Festival in support of her recent big band recording, Aftermath. She successfully completed an 11-city cross-Canada tour with her big band, Chelsea McBride’s Socialist Night School, in the summer of 2018, and has performed at JazzYYC, the Halifax Jazz Festival, and the TD Toronto Jazz Festival among others. She has been named one of Canada’s top 35 jazz musicians under 35 by the CBC and was the inaugural recipient of the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Emerging Jazz Artist Award.

Erez Aviram

The Erez Aviram Ensemble is a unique group consisting of eight versatile musicians from New York City led by composer and pianist Erez Aviram. The ensemble, combining traditional orchestral instruments with a powerful rhythm and horn sections, creates a bridge between the written and the improvised, skipping flawlessly between genres and modes to produce intellectual and emotive music.

Since its inception, the ensemble has become a rising force in the chamber jazz scene, performing in New York City.
Following the recording and filming of their debut EP, the ensemble delivered a sold-out performance at the 2023 Rochester Jazz Festival, and were picked to perform at Chamber Music America's Showcase in Times Square, NYC on January 2024.

Jenny Hill

Born: March 7

Jenny Hill is a versatile jazz saxophonist, flautist, composer, and arranger based in New York City. She leads the jazz sextet Liquid Horn, known for blending jazz with South American and Caribbean rhythms, and has released multiple albums, including "Floating," "Groove Garden," "The Chill Factor," "Planet Sax," and "Liquid Horn." She was a winner of the Chamber Music America Performance Plus grant in 2023, and also the ArtsWestchester Arts Alive grant.

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Michael Clement

Born: February 24, 1994

Michael Clement is a pianist and composer known for his versatility in jazz, contemporary, and cinematic music. A UNT One O’Clock Lab Band alumnus, he was featured on the band's acclaimed album Lab 2019 and has performed with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, including programs featuring film scores and guest artists such as Capathia Jenkins and Take 6. His musicianship has earned him First Prize at the Ravenscroft International Jazz Piano Competition and the Yamaha Award at the American Jazz Pianist Competition. An in-demand soloist and sideman, Clement is recognized for his expressive touch, deep rhythmic sensibility, and storytelling approach to improvisation.

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