Results for "Electric Guitarist"

Kyle Green

Born: January 16, 1986

Kyle Green is an American jazz guitarist, composer, and educator based in Portugal. Through his work as a performer, conductor, festival founder, and arts leader, he has built an international career dedicated to performance, music education, and the advancement of jazz culture.

Green received his formal musical education at Grand Valley State University in Michigan and The City University of New York, where he studied while simultaneously building a career as a guitar instructor. His playing draws from the post-bop tradition, balancing expressive improvisation with a strong commitment to melody, interaction, and swing.

Kevin Metzger

Born: April 24, 1993

“A spring-fed dive pool for the deep listener athirst.”

Kevin Metzger is an accomplished guitarist and multi-instrumentalist flying down the road through broad plains of fusion. On this journey, he expertly erects power lines strung to pillars of combusting jazz, meticulous progressive and psychedelic rock, honest Baroque era classical, and popular American folk songs. Flip the fuse and listen to it power up.

A playful mind, a musician’s artist; his music is built upon high level composition, deep reliance on improvisation, and paramount performance moments. His debut album Many Worlds, a collaboration with longtime friend R. Aaron Walters, blends jazz, classical, and rock influences into a deeply personal and emotionally resonant statement. Tracked live in Austin and completed in Nashville, the record moves fluidly between original compositions and reimagined works by Keith Jarrett, Jerry Garcia, Bach, and Jan Hammer. Across seven tracks, Metzger’s guitar voice shifts from lyrical restraint to angular intensity; grounded and supported by the duo’s deep sense of trust and shared musical language.

Neil Benjamin

Neil Benjamin studied music in Los Angeles @ M.I.T and has been creating, recording and perfoming music ever since. Some of his songs have charted to No.1 positions on local S.A Charts as well as giving his band an opportunity to travel abroad and perform in Europe. Apart fom being a SAMA Nominee, he has also won 2 coveted SAFTA Awards for best Sound Design for his work that he did for Both World’s production, Puppet Nation, which saw him heading up their audio department and producing over 200 episodes worth of voice-overs final mixes, music composition and sound design over the course of 3 years

Stanley Cooper

A pillar of the Washington, D.C. music scene, Stanley Cooper is a master guitarist whose versatility, soulful tone, and technical brilliance have made him a sought-after performer, composer, and collaborator. With a career spanning decades, Cooper has carved out a reputation as a musician who can seamlessly move between jazz, gospel, R&B, and funk—bringing authenticity and heart to every note he plays. 

Stanley’s signature style blends intricate melodic phrasing with deep groove and impeccable timing, making his performances both emotionally resonant and technically impressive. Whether delivering a searing solo or laying down a subtle rhythm, his guitar work speaks volumes, always serving the song and elevating the ensemble.

Vreny Van Elslande

Born: June 14, 1971

Today, Vreny is busier than ever. Under the umbrella of his company ZOT Zin Music, Vreny produces demos for various artists. Vreny’s playing has been compared to Steve Vai, Steve Morse, Steve Lukather, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour, Carlos Santana, Joe Satriani, and Eric Johnson. He has often heard those names after one of his shows, and Vreny is happy to be in such great company.

When he is not teaching, producing, or working on his guitar books, Vreny can be found onstage. Go catch him perform when you can, but be prepared to catch your breath!Vreny has tons of plans, goals, and dreams he is constantly working on

Anders Holst

Danish guitarist and composer Anders Holst (b. 1979), based in Copenhagen, has been an integral part of the music scene in Denmark for the last 20 years, working in the field of bridging composition with improvisation. He has performed all over Europe and US with his bands and as a soloist. Besides his work in his own name he is also a founding member of the groups Cirklen (six guitar ensemble, established 2009), Bog Bodies (with Robert Stillman and Sean Carpio, established 2010) and Ektoplasma (with Nils Gröndahl, established 2010). He has released albums on esteemed labels such as Morningside Records, Scissor Tail Records, Tompkins Square Records, Barkhausen Recordings, Blackout, Clang, Kornmod, MIC, Trestle Records, Migro Records and Flydende Rum.

Grayson Hauser

Born: May 30, 1987

Grayson is an electric guitarist and singer who plays an expansive brand of high-energy music ranging from blues, hard rock, funk, to jazz and many points in between. .  Grayson’s musical philosophy is fairly simple: no trends or hype, just honest, soulful music that anyone can connect to.

Grayson Hauser spent years in the San Francisco Bay Area as a working musician playing in a variety of bands and genres before he left California and moved to Athens, Georgia in 2018 in order to pursue his own creative vision. Since then he has formed his own trio releasing 4 albums as well as contributing to many other projects ranging from the psychadelic Peruvian garage rock of Deaf Condors to the Jazz-Pop stylings of Julia Nyunt.

Angelo Tatone

Born: September, 1986

Angelo Tatone is a live and studio musician as well a composer, arranger and music teacher based in Vienna.

He plays electric, classic and acoustic guitar. His technique and his touch on the guitar is a result and synthesis of many years of practical experience in different music fields such as Jazz, Blues, Pop, Rock but also classical and film music.

He recorded and produced several albums in different music styles and genres and collaborates with many bands, orchestras and musicians.

Together with Irene Malizia he founded Variando musica and furthermore he is teacher for guitar, improvisation, composition and ear training at Variando musica.

Ari Joshua

Born: September 17, 1979

Ari Joshua is a South African born, American raised jazz guitarist who wields an enlightened presence, boundless creativity, and visceral virtuosity. He earned a scholarship to the iconic New York City music school, The New School and before that he spent a year at Mason Gross School of the Arts. Many talented musicians have gravitated towards Ari's sound has earned him many roles as a side man and he has also led many ensembles performing original music over the years. His passion and dedication to the music , can be seen in his commitment and advocacy for music education. In the early 2000's he founded the Music Factory an in person music and online music school that employs passionate professional full time musicians and has taught over 40,000 lessons to musicians

Nico Moreno

Born: May 23, 1997

Guitarist and composer Nico Moreno is a young guitar player who currently resides in New York City. His playing is characterized by the convergence of different styles such as Latin American music, rock, and pop, deeply rooted in the jazz guitar tradition.

Nico began his guitar journey at the age of nine when his mother gifted him an acoustic guitar. He started playing rock and began performing at local venues when he was thirteen. His musical journey went from rock to heavy metal, progressive rock, fusion, and eventually jazz and Latin American music. He started to study jazz and improvisation at the age of seventeen and since then, he has been deeply inspired by the idea of composing in real-time and writing music inspired by the jazz and Latin American traditions.