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Mehmet Ali Sanlikol

Born: September 24, 1974

Grammy nominated composer and CMES Harvard University fellow (2013-15) Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol made his Carnegie Hall debut in April 2016 premiering his commissioned piece Harabat/The Intoxicated with the American Composers Orchestra. Other recent works have been heard at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall and on A Far Cry string orchestra’s several different recordings. He hails from Cyprus and Turkey, and is a Jazz pianist, a multi-instrumentalist, a singer, an ethnomusicologist as well as a full-time faculty member at the New England Conservatory. Sanlıkol was the recipient of numerous respected awards including the South Arts Jazz Road Creative Residency Grant in 2021, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Grant twice in 2016 and 2020 as well as the New Music USA Project Grant in 2020 and has been praised by critics all over the world for his unique, pluralist, multicultural and energetic musical voice. The Boston Globe noted that Sanlıkol’s “music is colorful, fanciful, full of rhythmic life, and full of feeling. The multiculturalism is not touristy, but rather sophisticated, informed, internalized; Sanlıkol is a citizen of the world”, “…and he (Sanlıkol) is another who could play decisive role in music’s future in the world.”

Roy Ben Bashat

Born: April 7, 2000

Guitarist, composer, and songwriter born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel. Roy Ben Bashat was recognized as a prodigy from a young age and was accepted into the jazz music department at the prestigious Thelma Yelin school for the arts. During high school, he played with renowned jazz artists in Israel and performed at local venues and festivals. In 2017, he was granted a full schoarship from Berklee College of Music, and relocated to Boston in 2018. 

Roy Ben Bashat graduated from Berklee College of Music and moved to Brooklyn, NY in 2022. Shortly after moving to NYC, Ben Bashat started playing with some of the Jazz leaders in the city, including Luis Perdomo, Eric McPherson, Lex Korten, Noah Preminger, among others. 

Alberto Poggio

Born: March 4, 1979

Musician for passion, with experiences in various musical genres and theatrical collaborations.
Often, I think it happens to everyone, a certain music is inextricably linked to an instant of life or an emotion, if you think back to that instant the song comes to mind, and when you listen to the song you relive those same emotions.
I believe that my need to compose comes from here, when I experience something peculiar, which is good, bad, more or less important for any reason, and then I sit at the piano to improvise a bit, a music comes out, linked to that memory, and the desire to share it.

Soyoung Park

Soyoung Park, originally from South Korea, is a New York based vocalist, pianist and songwriter. She has a perfectly tuned, crystal clear voice and her compositions have interesting harmony progressions which are organically related to the melody and the lyrics.

In 2008, Soyoung moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music, as she was awarded the Asia Tour Scholarship,.At Berklee College of music, Soyoung majored in piano/voice performance. Afterwards, Soyoung finished her Master’s degree Program in Jazz voice at Manhattan school of music in New York.

Dominick "Domo" Branch

Dominick “Domo” Branch is a Bi-coastal drummer, composer, and educator from Portland, Oregon. He leads his own band “Branchin’ Out” and is also co-leader of the Brown Branch Jazz Orchestra. Since finishing his degree at New York’s Manhattan School of Music, Domo has established himself as one of the world’s top up and coming drummers, composers, and educators. Having performed and/or toured with prominent artists such as Sean Jones, Stefon Harris, Ron Artis II, Dianne Reeves, Terance Blanchard, Taylor Eigsti, and Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Sienna Dahlen

Born: July 6, 1972

JUNO award-winning jazz vocalist, Sienna Dahlen was born in the pristine Kootenay region of southern British Columbia and raised in the northern gusty dusty Peace River region of the same province. Her upbringing and influences whir like vintage jukebox singles spanning a diversity of styles from Joni Mitchell to Ella Fitzgerald to kd lang. Always paving her own path, Sienna is hard to pin down. Her music and sound scale the outskirts of folk, jazz and the spatial avant-garde and the effect is a showering of sonic love. Sienna's latest release, a duo album entitled "Balladextrous", was recorded with Bill Coon on guitar and released on Cellar Music Records in June of 2023.

Josh Andres

Born: January 3, 1987

Josh Andres is an accomplished composer and musician based in Los Angeles, CA. His journey into the music scene began in 2014 inspired by his training at the Juilliard School in New York City. Since his emergence, Josh has consistently pushed the boundaries of contemporary music, establishing a signature sound that seamlessly weaves elements of Orchestration, Jazz, Ambient, and Soul. With musical influences ranging from legends such as Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis to contemporary innovators like BadBadNotGood, Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, and more. Josh's compositions resonate with a unique and compelling voice. 

Richard X Bennett

Pianist/Composer Richard X Bennett plays modernistic and soulful music with a wide ranging sound all his own. He has six jazz and electronica releases on Ubuntu Music and Ropeadope Records as well as six critically acclaimed raga-based records on Indian labels. His quartet album with dynamic saxophonist Matt Parker, Parker Plays X arrived in May 2023.  Beyond the sonic, lies the visual, an indispensable element of his creative process. RXB's art videos accompany most of his compositions, evoking a myriad of emotions through their abstract, whimsical, and esoteric nature. In 2022 he delved even further, expanding his artistic horizons with WIREPARK, a twenty-seven-minute post-industrial lo-fi film. In the convergence of these seemingly disparate elements, a new art form emerges, born of a restless spirit that refuses to be confined by tradition or convention.

Eunmi Lee

Eunmi Lee is a Korean-born, New York-based jazz pianist, composer, and educator celebrated for her fearless approach to blending her cultural heritage with contemporary jazz. Her musical journey began in Seoul, where she earned an associate degree from the Seoul Institute of Arts and worked extensively in theater, bandstand, and media music. In 2016, she expanded her artistic scope by moving to the Netherlands to study jazz piano on a Holland National Excellence scholarship, completing her Bachelor of Music degree a year ahead of schedule in 2019.

In 2020, Lee relocated to New York City to pursue her Master’s degree in Jazz Piano at New York University, studying under Dave Pietro and Dr

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.