Results for "composer/conductor"

Rob Thorpe

Born: May 8, 1990

Joe Barnett

Born: July 27, 1954

I am Joe Barnett, M.A. of Crystal Magic Orchestra. Joe Barnett's musicianship is "Making Known the Unknown." I let my consciousness go out into the infinite of reality and I listen, create and play new musical ideas that come to me from there. I express all music and my music creation in this way as "Making Known the Unknown." Crystal Magic Orchestra is making a new type of music. It is a New type of Jazz. It is called Cosmic Jazz. It is called Cosmic because we take our consciousness out to the infinite unknown and inhale Pre-Light and Pre- Sound and we exhale it into our Neumann Microphone in our music studio. This Pre-Light and Pre-Sound we record makes Cosmic Pink White Light and that is what is recorded when we exhale into our Neumann Microphone in our music studio. Crystal Magic Orchestra's COSMIC JAZZ - a New Type of Jazz which is HEALING Dr

Jungsu Choi

Born: June 25, 1975

Composer, Producer and Band leader Jungsu Choi has had diverse rolls in all areas of music, be it orchestra, big band or electronic music. In his ten years of working in Europe, he has built a remarkable musical career and studied jazz composition, film music as well as electro-acoustic music at Vienna Conservatory and Kingston University London. His unique compositions and arrangements have been played by numerous orchestras and big bands. He has written for modern dance, musical, theatre, TV spots and film and also holds a leading position as educator with Korea’s Word Cyber College

Luke Horimoto

Born: March 20

Jane Saunders

Born: May

Jane Saunders is a New York based composer, arranger, musician and educator. She has toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe as the creator of the Avant-Garde Metal project The Greatest Fear, whose debut release, “The Coronation of The Locust Queen,” sold over 10,000 albums as an independent artist (receiving The Independent Music Awards Hard Rock/ Heavy Metal Album of the year for 2005). Jane has played flute with the Nevada Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Festival Symphony Orchestra, Henderson Civic Symphony, and Flagstaff Festival Symphony Orchestra. Recently, Jane has scored music for movies Rose’s Children (starring Rutanya Alda The Deer Hunter, Amityville Horror II, Mommy Dearest), Forgetting Sandy Glass (starring Gaia Matisse), and Coffee and Sisters, The Nothing, The Letter J and provided sound design and original compositions for the CUNY production of Eurydice produced by Jedadiah Schultz(The Laramie Project) Jane recently obtained her Masters of Music in studio composition at the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music.

Mica Bethea

Born: November 30, 1983

Based out of Jacksonville, Florida, Mica is a composer, arranger, and band leader in the jazz vein. He received his graduate and undergraduate degrees, both in music, from the University of North Florida. In 2012, he received the undergraduate arranger award by Downbeat Magazine. He is co-owner of the Cue Note, a billiard room and jazz venue, as well as a boardmember of the Jazz Discovery Series. Though he writes for many mediums of ensembles, most of his music is set to the big band format and is primarily written for his own amusement. He has released two albums with his own group that show his fervor for this instrumentation: the self-titled Mica Bethea Big Band and Stage n' Studio. His big band incorporates some of the highest level of performers in the North Florida region, and the occasional special guest

David von Kampen

Born: May 26, 1986

David von Kampen (b.1986) is a composer from Lincoln, Nebraska. David’s music spans a wide variety of genres and styles, including jazz, choral music, hymnody and liturgy, art song, chamber music, and musical theater. David is a six-time Downbeat Award winner in graduate-level jazz writing categories, a three-time winner of the Vancouver Chamber Choir Young Composers Competition, and was named MTNA Distinguished Composer of the Year for his song cycle "Under the Silver and Home Again." David was the recipient of an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer award, winner of the San Francisco Choral Artists New Voices Project, winner of the National Band Association’s Young Jazz Composers Competition, and received Honorable Mention in the New York Youth Symphony First Music Commissions

Anicia Kohler

Born: April 14, 1982

After years of classical training, directing choirs and playing keyboards in different bands in her youth, Anicia Kohler discovered jazz and the jazz piano. The new gained freedom in playing and the richness of the american songbook immediately appealed to her. She studied the jazz piano at the music academy in Basel (Switzerland), and went on to study orchestration and film scoring at the Berklee college of music online program. She works as a composer and bandleader. Many of her compositions for small and larger jazz ensembles were recorded and performed in the years after her graduation, as well as pieces for solo instruments like flute, guitar or vocals and a string trio which were performed and/or recorded in Switzerland, Athens, Singapore and New York.

Mike Conrad

Born: May 15, 1988

Mike Conrad is a composer, improviser, and teacher from Iowa. He has been recognized for his arranging and composing with four ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards and seven DownBeat Awards, as well as awards and commissions from the Contemporary Music Academy in Beijing, the Bundesjazzorchester of Germany, the West Point Army Jazz Knights, and many other organizations. Conrad’s music has been performed all over the world, including a 2017 concert by the Metropole Orkest in the Netherlands, a 2014 Carnegie Hall Premiere, and a performance at the US Presidential Inauguration in 2013. As a performer, he has toured China, played at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy, and appeared at various jazz festivals and venues all over the United States

Zacharias S. Falkenberg

Zacharias S. Falkenberg - born in Beijing and growing up in Cologne, Hamburg and Hong Kong - is a composer, conductor and musician currently residing in Berlin. His compositions were performed amongst others by "Matangi", "Jong Metropole Orchestra", "The Chronometer's Orchestra", "Metropole Academy Orchestra", "Het Gelders Orkest", "Orkest de Ereprijs", and "Alma Quartet". In 2016 Falkenberg got rewarded with the prestigious Rogier van Otterloo Award. An award for his work as composer, conductor and ensemble leader. He is the co-founder and artistic leader of The Chronometer's Orchestra. In recent times Falkenberg is known for his collaboration with Henrik Schwarz that lead to a sold out concert at the Elphilharmonie Hamburg in March 2019.