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Manny Cepeda

Manny has been performing since the age of 7, first as the "Timbales Player" in the highly acclaimed variety TV "Show de Vigoreaux" in San Juan, Puerto Rico's Channel 4, and then with other famous bands such as "Babo Jimenez, Ricardo Ray, Willie Colon and others. Manny has performed at festivals and for dignitaries throughout South America, Africa, and Europe. His passion and love for music was developed as a young boy and is rooted in a rich family history of musical professionals from the famous “Cepeda” family. His musical experience of over 50 years makes him a fountain of knowledge in the Latin Music genre

Dan Ostermann

COMPOSITION EXPERIENCE PREMIERES OF ORIGINAL WORKS • New work commissioned by the Academy of Creative Education, Oakwood School, May 2005. “Sleepy Island” premiered August 11, 2005 by the Oakwood School Large Ensemble. • Chamber Orchestra work entitled “Peace in Blue” written for the Henry Mancini Institute Summer Concert Series 2004, premiered at Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, August 6, 2004. • Four movement Chamber Jazz composition entitled “Why The Freak Went Suite” premiered by respected jazz ensemble click.BOOM., Los Angeles, October 15, 2003. • Four movement work “Simple Satisfied” for Dakah Hip Hop Orchestra, premiered at House of Blues, Los Angeles, January 23, 2001. Freelance writer and arranger for film and television: Worked with John Avila (Oingo Boingo), Pasadena Jazz Orchestra, Louie Bellson Orchestra, click.BOOM. Chamber Jazz Ensemble, & Selah L.A. Private studies with Vince Mendoza, Art Jarvinen, Marc Lowenstein, and Jack Smalley. PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE STUDIO & LIVE PERFORMANCE WORK Arranger, Soloist, and Sideman for live, recording, and film projects: Worked with Sting, Gladys Knight, Jill Scott, Burt Bacharach, Chris Botti, Louie Bellson, Ben Taylor, the Black Eyed Peas, Everlast, Fishbone, & Elgin Park (Mike Andrews). Worked on and appeared in films “What’s the Worst that Could Happen” (2001, Danny DeVito/Martin Lawrence), “Two Weeks Notice” (2002, Hugh Grant/Sandra Bullock), “Bewitched” (2005, Nicole Kidman/Will Farrell) & “Devil’s Rejects” (2005, Rob Zombie).

Jeff Fairbanks Project Hansori

Born: January 6, 1980

JEFF FAIRBANKS' PROJECT HANSORI, NYC-based 17-piece Jazz orchestra, plays the original Asian folk-influenced music of award-winning composer Jeff Fairbanks. The band's eagerly awaited debut album "Mulberry Street", which won an American Music Center recording grant, will be released on 6/1/11 by Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records. The album features Linda Oh, Fred Ho, Remy LeBeouf, Erica von Kleist, and Sebastian Noelle among a cast of 22 of New York's top Jazz musicians. In Jeff's unique blend of Asian folk music and modern Jazz, traditional Asian instruments join the big band on much of the tracks, and on certain live performances

Alexander "Sandy" Courage

Born: December 10, 1919

Alexander Courage Star Trek Fanfare Composer Alexander "Sandy" Courage won an Emmy Award as principal arranger for the ABC special Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas and was a nominee for his work on Medical Center.

Sandy Courage described his work as a conductor, arranger, and composer in network radio on such series as: The Screen Guild Theater, The Adventures of Sam Spade, and Hedda Hopper's This Is Hollywood. Courage's entrance into feature filmmaking as an arranger was at MGM, his screen highlights on such musical classics as Showboat, The Band Wagon, and Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. He was composer for television at Revue Productions

Earle H. Hagen

Born: July 19, 1919

Earle Hagen played trombone with the celebrated Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman big bands, and while with the Ray Noble Orchestra, composed one of the greatest standards of them all, "Harlem Nocturne." The Emmy Award-winning television composer who wrote the memorable theme music for The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Spy and other classic TV programs. The precocious teenager, graduating from high school at only age 15, found himself within weeks of leaving school, playing trombone on tour under the baton of Jacques Renard, conductor for the top-rated Eddie Cantor Radio Show. He followed this with recording studio work and then toured with The California Collegians (a group featured in the film Roberta along with their star-to-be saxophone player, Fred MacMurray). While playing in Isham Jones's band (composer of “I'll See You in My Dreams” and “It Had to be You”), in New York City, he was spotted playing at Jack White's Club by Tommy Dorsey

Brian Wilson

Born: June 20, 1942

Brain Wilson is one of rock's most deeply revered figures, a legendary writer, producer, arranger and performer of some of the most cherished music in rock history. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to call Brian Wilson one of the most influential pop composers of the last 50 years. Labor Day weekend, 1961, in Hawthorne, California It was then and there that nineteen-year-old Brian Douglas Wilson and his younger brothers Dennis and Carl assembled in their family's living room with cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine to rehearse a little tune that Brian and Mike had written for a try-out recording session. As luck would have it, the Wilsons' parents were vacationing and had left the boys $250 for food money

Nicholas Urie

Born: July 29, 1985

Born in Los Angeles, California in 1985, Nicholas Urie was a recipient of the first annual ASCAP Young Jazz Composer’s Award at the age of 17. He left Los Angeles to study composition with Bob Brookmeyer in Boston, receiving both bachelors and masters degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music. Urie’s music has been heard internationally at festivals and concerts throughout Europe and North America. Urie is an assistant professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA where he teaches arranging and music theory. As an active arranger and composer Urie has been commissioned to write music for concerts, recordings, and television broadcasts

Wu Fei

Born: May 12, 1977

Born and raised in Beijing, Wu Fei is a virtuoso composer, vocalist and guzheng (Chinese zither) performer. She spent her formative years at the China Conservatory of Music before coming to the US in 2000.

She holds a M.A. in Composition from Mills College and is a grant recipient of "Meet the Composer". While at Mills, she began to diversify her sound and experiment widely, working with musicians like John Zorn, Fred Frith, Carla Kilhstedt, Béla Fleck, Pauline Oliveros, and Cecil Taylor.

Wu Fei's compositions for choir, string quartet, chamber ensemble, Balinese gamelan, orchestra, film, and modern dance exhibit her remarkable skill and profound musical understanding

Dottie Rambo

Born: March 2, 1934

The music of gospel singer-songwritter Joyce "Dottie" Rambo is internationally reknowned for having simple melodies and articulate lyrical qualities. Her themes were often religious in nature dealing with topics such as Heaven, being a born-again Christian and the Christian sacrafice. Dottie Rambo learn to play guitar as a child while listening to the Grand Ole Opry on the radio in Nashville. By the age of eight she was already writing her own songs and by the age of ten she was singing and playing country music on a local radio station. At twelve she became a born-again Christian and made a commitment to compose and perform Christian music

Victor Solomin

About Victor Solomin (bandleader of Solominband ): I was born in the country of mountains, rivers and dzhigits near the Caspian Sea. There I graduated from the music school with bayan and spesialized school with domra. There I decided that domra is an instrument of the future and I still stick to this illusion. Then a train brought me to Kharkov and I entered the HII Kharkov Institute of Arts. After that I spent a couple of years in Moscow in “Russia” ensemble under the tactful direction of Lyudmila Zykina. When I got tired of this tactful direction of “the golden voice of Russia”, in a railway carriage 13 I left for Kharkov again, where successfully worked for three years in the same Institute of Arts as a teacher