Results for "Composer/arranger"

Erica Seguine

Born: June 18, 1987

Erica Seguine is a composer, arranger, conductor, pianist, and educator living in the NYC area. In 2011 she co-founded, with composer Shon Baker, their 21-musician ensemble, the Erica Seguine/Shon Baker Orchestra (ESSBO.) Since then, they have performed all around NYC, including Birdland Jazz Club, the Jazz Gallery, Lunar Faire (a witchy/weird night market/festival), Culture Lab LIC, ShapeShifter Lab, Tea Lounge/Slope Lounge, Grace Church, and had a monthly residency for one year (2013) in Montclair, NJ. In 2017, New York Music Daily has said “In terms of majestic sweep, cinematic scope, and clever outside-of-the-box humor, it’s hard to think of a more interesting group in big band jazz...” They were also written about in a 2019 New York Times article by Giovanni Russonello about the current big band scene. In August 2019, the orchestra went into Oktaven Audio to record their debut album, with Darcy James Argue producing and Brian Montgomery engineering. It will be released March 31, 2023.

Enrico Solazzo

Born: May 8, 1965

Live & Studio: Alex Britti, Franco Califano, Max Pezzali, Renato Carosone, Riccardo Cocciante, Stefano Di Battista, Amedeo Minghi, Fabrizio Moro, Nicky Nicolai, Fontella Bass, Il Rovescio della Medaglia, Fabrizio Bosso, Tollak Ollensted, Daniele Luppi, Vinnie Colaiuta, Michael Thompson, Humberto Gatica, Dario & Giorgio Rosciglione, Lele Melotti, Baptiste Herbin, Dynomite MC, Gumbi Ortiz, Tony Esposito, Roberto Gatto, Ernesto Vitolo, Danilo Rea, Kadir Gonzalez Lopez, Gegè Munari, Lo Van Gorp, John Pena, Rocco Zifarelli, Ronnye Jones, Deitra Farr, Fontella Bass, Aleandro Baldi, Ramona Badescu, Jessica Brando, Elsa Lila, Dario Bandiera, Simone Patrizi, Neffa.

Todd Mosby

Born: May 5, 1957

Instrumental composer, songwriter, and Imrat guitar innovator Todd Mosby is a storyteller and a landscape artist. He uses the guitar to whisk listeners away to a borderless realm where jazz, jazz fusion, North Indian classical, classical composition, bluegrass, bossa-nova, and folk-rock create transporting and transformative experiences. His latest album, Land Of Enchantment, is a gorgeous scrapbook of the visual, emotive, spiritual and cultural interactions Todd has personally experienced within the New Mexico region of the United States.

Todd is an acclaimed Indian and jazz guitarist influenced by St. Louis’s vibrantly varied cultural blend of Indian, African-American, and Americana traditions. He is one of the few musicians in America who has mastered three mountains of music; western composition, jazz improvisation, and Indian raga music, incorporating them freely as a part of his musical language. He attended Berklee College of Music as an undergrad, Webster University as a graduate student, and, for 13 years, studied classical North Indian music with Ustadt Imrat Khan in the most disciplined way. He has the distinction of being the only guitarist to become a member of the famed Imdhad Khani Gharana of musicians, India’s most prestigious family of sitar musicians dating back 500 to Tansen in the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar. From his years studying this rarified and sacred music, Imrat worked with Mosby to develop a unique guitar technique. This led to  an innovative bridge instrument, the Imrat guitar, which has been undergoing design upgrades since 1997. Built by luthier Kim Schwartz to the performance standards of Mosby and the overall sonic palette of Imrat Kahn, the resulting hybrid 18-stringed sitar-guitar instrument allows for a cross-cultural East-West musical dialogue right at your fingertips and integrated into his musical vocabulary.

Giorgi Mikadze

Born: May 20, 1989

Giorgi Mikadze is a renowned Georgian pianist, composer, and Yamaha artist. As a multi-genre musician and producer, he has gained fame by performing with “King of Chinese Pop” Wang Leehom on his "Descendants of the Dragon" world tour. What's more, Giorgi has been recognized for creating a number of acclaimed projects such as VOISA, Georgian Overtones, and Georgian MicrojamZ, and for introducing his projects to larger audiences, along with his music groups and distinguished musicians.

Noted for his supreme technical skills as a pianist and composer, Giorgi has regularly performed and toured with a number of renowned orchestras, such as the internationally acclaimed Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra. He has also composed for plays at the Rustaveli National Theatre, served as a musical director for Berklee’s tribute to Quincy Jones, and directed Jonathan Antoine's North American concert tour. Giorgi has performed with renowned artists from a vast assortment of musical genres, including Wang Leehom, Jack DeJohnette, Roy Hargrove, Dave Liebman, Lee Ritenour, Meshell Ndegeocello, Antonio Sanchez, Chris Potter, Matt Garrison, Nils Landgren, Patti Austin, Jojo Mayer, David Fiuczynski, Brett Dennen, Siedah Garrett, Melwin Lee Davis, Tom Kennedy, Phil Wilson and many more. Throughout his career, Giorgi has won numerous prestigious classical piano competitions, jazz fellowship awards, full scholarship at Berklee College of Music, and presidential scholarship at Manhattan School of Music.

Christian Overton

Originally from Sudbury Ontario, Christian Overton is now one of the most in demand trombonists and composers in Toronto in every scene from jazz and rock to salsa, R&B, theatre work and everything in between. He has a degree from Humber College where he studied with some of the nation’s top jazz musicians including Pat LaBarbera, John MacLeod, and Alistair Kay. Christian has also completed a Masters degree at the University of Toronto studying with Kelsley Grant, Gary Kulesha and Tim Ries. 

Jazz collaborations include:  Hermeto Pascoal, John Clayton, The Panamanian Big Band featuring Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Brian Blade, Miguel Zenon. Also Kurt Elling, Bobby Shew, Guido Basso, Peter Appleyard, Jane Bunnett, Bill Dobbins, The Art of Jazz Orchestra, Jens Lindemann & the Order of Canada Band, Christine and Ingrid Jensen, The LaBarbera Brothers, The Don Thompson Big Band, John MacLeod's Rex Hotel Orchestra, Turboprop, The Carn Davidson 9, The Heavyweights Brass Band, NOJO and Gary Morgan’s Panamerican All Stars as well as many other acts. Christian was also featured on the Cuphead video game soundtrack which reached #1 on the billboard jazz charts in 2019.

Kathrine Windfeld

Kathrine Windfeld is considered one of the most exciting and refreshing new Scandinavian jazz composers and arrangers in many years.

Her breathtaking compositions thrive on a rare combination of delicacy and strength:
A colorful meeting of sophisticated harmonic passages, driving grooves and poetic ballads in explosive arrangements.

Kathrine Windfeld has been leading her big band and sextet for more than 10 years and has been touring in more than 15 countries. In 2022 she went on two tours in Brazil, performing her music with a Brazilian orchestra in sold out concert halls in Sao Paulo and Savassi.

Randolph Noel

Born: March 28, 1953

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Brooklyn born pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and educator Randolph Noel has released his second album as a leader, “Elements and Orbits”. His first album “Hands on the Plow”, as founder and director of the Brooklyn Arts Ensemble, was released in 2003.  In addition to the youth  Jazz Chorus, the Brooklyn Arts Ensemble included Rudy Bird, Lionel Cordew, Doug Harris, Camille Noel, Lonnie Plaxico, John Henry Robinson III, and  Kiane Zawadi.

Randolph’s work can also be heard on several of the late Abbey Lincoln’s Verve recordings: “You Gotta Pay the Band, “The Devil’s Got Your Tongue, “A Turtles Dream” and “Who Used to Dance”.  He co-arranged the aforementioned “The Devil’s Got Your Tongue” and wrote the string arrangements for some of her most iconic compositions; “Down Here Below” and “Bird Alone”.

Shueh-li Ong

Shueh-li is best known for the way she melds electronic-pop-rock-jazz, with her fav sci-fi instrument; the theremin, synths, tin-whistle, piano, and sound design. Shueh-li has recorded and produced 4 CDs and several singles to date. Australian born Shueh-li (Shelley) is known as 'Singapore's 1st & only diva of the theremin', and in Nashville as their 'Queen of the theremin'.

Though she has been compared to such self produced artists as Kate Bush, Madonna, and Yoko Kanno, Shueh-li's sound is very much her own.

Shueh-li is also founder & leader of Xenovibes (electronic-prog band.) Artists who have worked with her include Dean Parks, Shelley Carrol, Curtis Randall, Chuck Smith, Mike McKinney. 

Daniel Villa Verde

Born: August 22, 1985

In 2002 Daniel started his work as a teacher of electric guitar, focusing on technique, harmony and improvisation. Worked with local musicians in Rio de Janeiro with jazz / fusion presentations from 2004 to 2007. He Joined the federal college UNI-Rio in 2005 and studied two and half years until, in mid-2007, he moved to Florianópolis where he had the opportunity to be among music therapists, which added to his informal training during his professional path construction. In 2007, the opportunity to present his work as solo acoustic guitar player in another country appeared. He went to Quilpué and Valparaiso, in Chile and played in the “World Music Festival” at the Sala Rubén Darío and the “Quilpué Vecinal Theatre Festival”, both festivals occurring in the second half of 2007. On these occasions the local radio station Valentin Lethelier played his music on national level. Still in Chile, Daniel stayed with artists at the joint work with Casona Campbell Cultural Center. From 2008 to 2010 he traveled widely troughtout Brazil along with the visual artist and companion Julie Kolker, focusing on music and Agroecology (music in ecovillages and communities) and during this period he exchanged musical experiences in communities such as Terra Una With a little musical interlude to accompany his partner's pregnancy and the birth of his first son (João da Terra), Villa Verde returned to the scene in the second half of 2011 by joining the drummer Antonio Neves (known for his work with Mario Adnet, Eduardo Neves and New Lapa Jazz) and bassist Marcelo Muller (Guinga and Itiberê Zwarg) and the flautist Johanna Weglinsky (Egberto Gismonti) to rehearse and record his first collective Album: An Atom of Antares.

Tony Carlucci

Born: January 1, 2000

Artist Bio

Singer/Songwriter, Keyboardist, Saxophonist, Producer, Composer, Remixer and Actor, Tony Carlucci was born and raised in NewJersey and has been creating music since the age of 3. Tony's wide range of musical performance and knowledge allow his original TONY CARLUCCI NEW LP "FLY ME TO THE MOON
"5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT ALBUM!!!
Reviewed in the United States

Tony Carlucci performs fantastic tasteful versions full of original style with this great Sinatra tribute. This is an utterly marvelous collection of Frank Sinatra's most well known songs/arrangements