Results for "Composer"

Griffin Brown

Griffin Brown is a composer, poet, drummer, songwriter+vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn. Described by The Wire as “impressive” and “original,” his musical work collides—and sometimes exists wholly inside of—idioms like jazz, concert music, electronic, experimental pop+rock, and improvised music. His poems appear in The Paris Review, Plume, Poetry Northwest, Prelude, and elsewhere.

He has performed and had music debuted in an array of concert halls, clubs, and basements—among many others, the Cornelia Street Café, Miller Theatre, the Rochester International Jazz Festival, Birdland, Caramoor, PS21 Chatham, Mercury Lounge, the Owl, TV Eye, and SOB’s in New York; MASS MoCA/Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend in Massachusetts; Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Morse Recital Hall, and Space Ballroom in New Haven/CT; PhilaMOCA, World Café Live, and the Trocadero in Philadelphia; the Baked Potato in Los Angeles; Donau115 in Berlin; Celeste and Fabrik in Vienna; Punctum in Prague; La Schola Cantorum in Paris; and the highSCORE Festival in Pavia—and taken part in impuls in Graz

Jason Whatley

Born: April 14, 1979

Jason Whatley is a jazz pianist and composer based in Tasmania, Australia. His compositions admit the unmistakable influence of great jazz modernists like Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus and Wayne Shorter. He leads a quintet featuring fellow Tasmanian musicians Michael Woods (trumpet/flugelhorn), Damon Warner (saxophones), Hamish Houston (bass) and Beau Thomas (drums). He has released two albums with this lineup, Newfound Cool (2013) and On the Beak (2020).

Dan Zimmerman

Born: December 30, 1970

Dan Zimmerman devoted himself to guitar at age seven when he heard Love Gun, the new album by Kiss. Dan’s list of guitar favorites soon expanded beyond the space makeup of Kiss’s Ace Frehley to include John Scofield, Eddie Van Halen and Wes Montgomery, to name a few. After playing in high school rock bands, he studied classical guitar at UC Santa Barbara and jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston. At UCSB Dan played in Evil Farmer, a rock/jam band known for spontaneous, creative and sometimes disastrous improvisations. Evil Farmer shared the bill at festivals and clubs with many other bands including ALO, who Dan still sometimes guests with. Dan has played guitar professionally in Southern California for more than 20 years

Iago Fernández

Born: March 30, 1987

Iago Fernández is a jazz drummer and composer from Cangas, Galicia (1987). He started his musical studies on classic percussion at the conservatory of his home town with the teacher Luís Carballo. His first contact with jazz was in the "Orquestra de jazz do Morrazo" (conducted by Luís Carballo) and also in the “Seminario Permanente de Jazz de Pontevedra (SPJP)” conducted by Abe Rábade and Paco Charlín, studying there for four years including master classes and concerts with international artists. In 2011 he was graduated with honors in the “Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco, Musikene” (jazz drums performance) where he took lessons from great masters such as Jorge Rossy, Perico Sambeat, Jo Krause, Albert Sanz, Guillermo Klein and Chris Kase among others. In 2018 he was selected for the prestigious Focusyear program (Jazzcampus Basel, Switzerland), were he rehearsed, learned and performed with other 6 musicians plus many incredible artists such as Norma Winston, Dave Liebman, Ambrose Akinmusire, Wolfgang Muthspiel and Guillermo Klein among others. Iago is currently based in Basel, where he has also graduated from a master's degree in jazz composition. 

Rob Duguay

Born: October 5, 1982

Rob Duguay lives in Queens, New York and performs regularly around the New York City tri-state area, leading multiple groups including SONGEVITY, Low Key Trio, and "The Outernet".  His latest group The Outernet is dedicated to performing and arranging the music of his youth for small group normally using trombone, trumpet, bass and drums.  The group begs the question, "What music or poetry or movies or people will still be in your life when the internet is no longer funcional?  Who is in YOUR outernet?"

SONGEVITY, his 'concert' band usually involving grand piano has featured a large list of fine musicians including Steve Wilson, Abraham Burton, Mark Gross, "Ku-umba" Frank Lacy, Justin Kauflin, and more.  Rob has been on call from top drummers such as Chip White, Winard Harper, and Chris Brown.  Aside from performing, Rob stays busy in the music community by teaching private music lessons, composing original music, and booking jazz events both private and at NYC clubs. Rob also acted as a New York correspondent for TSF Jazz Radio in Paris, France, and is the artistic director for About the Swing, a non-profit that brings jazz events to schools throughout the NYC area. In 2015, Rob became president of KEYED UP!, a non-profit organization that helps venues to sponsor jazz programs and create work for hundreds, if not thousands, of musicians.

Makanda Ken McIntyre

Born: September 7, 1931

World-renowned multi-instrumentalist, composer, orchestrator and educator Makanda Ken McIntyre was a tireless musical innovator for nearly half a century, with 12 albums and more than 600 compositions and arrangements to his credit. His works include compositions for woodwind quartets, chamber ensembles, jazz bands, and full orchestra, as well as hundreds of lead sheets. He composed ballads, calypsos, bebop, avant-garde and the blues. Makanda was known primarily for leading his own ensembles — performing on alto saxophone, flute, bass clarinet, oboe and bassoon — and being proficient on more than 16 instruments, including bass, drums and piano

Chris Walden

Seven-time Grammy nominated German-born composer/arranger/conductor CHRIS WALDEN has scored more than 40 feature and TV films, and has written more than 1,500 orchestral and big band arrangements for artists including Michael Bublé, Aretha Franklin, Paul McCartney, SEAL, Stevie Wonder, Rihanna, Barbra Streisand, Josh Groban, and orchestras like the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Pops. He has worked closely with producers David Foster, Tommy LiPuma, and Phil Ramone. He most recently served as lead arranger for the Academy Awards (Oscars®), he arranged for and conducted the Kennedy Center Honors and arranged the National Anthem for Jennifer Hudson's performance at the SUPER BOWL XLIII

Chris Coyle

Born: July 8, 1987

Chris Coyle is a bassist and composer based in Philadelphia, PA. Chris has gained recognition as a versatile performer and creator through an endless quest of listening, learning, collaboration, and curation. He leads his own Jazz/Experimental ensembles: Phantasma Trio, Vaux Taux, and Outside Sound. These groups have been featured in media outlets, including NPR, WHYY, WRTI, XPN, AllAboutJazz, and others. He has shared the stage with some of Philadelphia's most prominent Jazz musicians: John Swana, Behn Gillece, Doug Hirlinger, Diane Monroe, Joanna Pascale, Orrin Evans, Duane Eubanks, and others.

Pat Kelley

Recognized for his signature touch, harmonic dexterity, bluesy melodies and sense of rhythm, guitarist Pat Kelley has enjoyed a steady and successful career in Los Angeles as a studio and touring musician, recording artist, composer, producer, arranger, vocalist, recording engineer, and educator. An integral part of the Thornton School of Music Guitar Faculty at the University of Southern California for twenty-four years, two of Pat's books, Arpeggios for the Evolving Guitarist and Melodic Minor Guitar are part of the USC Thornton School of Music instructional series (Mel Bay Publications)

Rotem Sivan

Rotem Sivan’s guitar skills are heralded across the globe. The New York Times has praised him as “more than a very good young guitar player.” Downbeat Magazine has called him “a remarkable talent."

Rotem completed his studies in both classical composition and jazz performance with honors in Tel Aviv University and at The New School in NYC. Rotem tours with his band most of the year playing in world- renowned festivals and clubs. He has performed in countries such as France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Poland, Slovenia, Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Israel, UK, Canada and India among others, and has given workshops around the world in top universities and schools.