Results for "flute"

Christian Artmann

Born: May 12, 1975

Called a “composer with great vision” (All About Jazz) and a “flute virtuoso” (The Boston Globe) and praised for his “stunning virtuosity” (JazzTimes) and “most beautiful, pure sound” (JazzThetik), flutist / composer and Sunnyside recording artist Christian Artmann is passionate about conveying “a perspective beyond boundaries” (All About Jazz). While deeply centered in contemporary jazz, Artmann’s compositions reflect his roots in European classical and folk music, his love of Brazilian music and prog rock, his addiction to odd meters, and, last but not least, his Buddhist faith.

Lin Hsiao-Feng

Lin Hsiao-Feng is a Taiwanese improvising flutist, curator, and Music Director of Lin’s Culture in Taipei. His work bridges Taiwanese and multi-ethnic flute traditions, free improvisation, and experimental sound, exploring how traditional wind instruments can enter contemporary performance through cross-cultural collaboration. He performs on dizi, xiao, the Indigenous Paiwan nose flute, and other traditional wind instruments, often combining them with piano, electronics, and real-time improvisation. His artistic practice focuses on expanding the contemporary possibilities of flute traditions while remaining attentive to their cultural histories

Cobby Brzeski

Active since: August 22, 2015

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Cobby Brzeski is a San Diego-based jazz vocalist, flutist, and songwriter originally from Naples, Florida. Her project, The Vintage Girl in a Modern World (VGMW) Swing Band, blends the elegance of the 1930s and 1940s with fresh, contemporary energy. A magna cum laude graduate of Berklee College of Music, Cobby and the VGMW Band perform timeless swing standards, original compositions inspired by the Golden Age of Jazz, and modern songs reimagined in vintage style. Whether experiencing a more intimate ensemble or the ful band, VGMW creates an immersive, high-energy experience that delights jazz lovers, swing dancers, and new audiences alike.

Adele Sebastian

Born: August 14, 1956

Adele Sebastian was an American jazz flautist, vocalist, composer, and educator whose brief career left an enduring mark on West Coast spiritual jazz. Born in Riverside, California, she studied Theatre Arts and Pan-Afrikan Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, where she became deeply involved in the city's creative Black Arts movement. 

A central member of pianist and composer Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and the Union of God's Musicians and Artists Ascension (UGMAA), Sebastian developed a distinctive musical voice that blended modal jazz, African musical traditions, poetry, and spirituality. Her warm, lyrical flute playing and expressive vocals reflected both her technical ability and her commitment to music as a vehicle for cultural expression.

Anthony Rodriguez ARodReeds

Born: June, 1991

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Anthony Rodriguez has been making music since he was 16, when he first picked up the saxophone and began his classical training. Early on, he performed with the ISO Symphonic Band and Orchestra at venues like Carnegie Hall and Symphony Space, and later represented Xaverian High School internationally as lead Alto Saxophonist at the 2007 Cherry Blossom Festival in Kyoto, Japan.

Anthony’s path has always blended classical roots with versatility. After high school, he studied Music Performance at Brooklyn College, learning from respected mentors Bernard Goldberg (Flute), Edino Biaggi (Oboe), and Paul Cohen (Saxophone). Along the way, he spent several summers at French Woods Festival, performing in concert bands, symphony, and up to a dozen musicals each season—eventually joining the woodwind staff.

Ronn Yedidia's PROPHETS

Active since: March 16, 1984

Composer/Pianist Ronn Yedidia created PROPHETS in the early 1980's while still a student at Juilliard. Its music is often referred to as an innovative melding of contemporary Jazz and Classical idioms. Scored for a quartet of flute, piano, electric bass and drums, PROPHETS music is ultra-virtuosic and tightly constructed - mostly composed and only partially improvised. It draws its harmonic and gestural influences from many of the Jazz and Fusion streams in existence, as well as from certain Modern Classical traditions.  

In 1984 PROPHETS was recognized by Sony BMG's senior executive producer Thomas Frost. Frost produced the group's first studio recordings, which attracted much interest from record labels and world-renowned musicians such as Julius Baker, Gil Evans, Hubert Laws and many others. PROPHETS' unique sound was frequently heard on radio stations around the world.

Filipa Santos

Born: August 7, 1978

Filipa Santos is a saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist living and working in Porto, Portugal.
 Her current work explores improvisation, electroacoustic interventions, extended vocal techniques, electronics, and wind instruments inspired by Portugal's intangible heritage and incorporating various jazz, avant-garde and world music influences into their music. She is one of the founding members of folk/ prog group Mandrágora.

She was awarded with the Carlos Paredes award for the album "Mandrágora" for the best non-classical instrumental album ex-aequo with "Ascent" by Bernardo Sassetti. 

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Jason Arce

Born: July 18, 1984

Jason Arce is an in demand saxophonist currently residing in Virginia Beach. He has performed with Weezer, Cece Winans, Joe Jonas, Blood Orange, Cory Henry, Kindness, Porches, The Curtis Brothers, and Soul Cycle among many others.

Jason is a proud endorser of Cannonball Saxophones, BG France Ligatures, Gonsalez Reeds and Bettersax mouthpieces.

Jason Rigby

Born: December 2, 1974

Some musicians seem born with sound in their bones. Jason Rigby is one of them.

Born on a U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, to a Navy family with deep Sicilian and Irish roots, Jason had already lived in Hawaii and Texas before his family landed in Cleveland, Ohio, when he was just five. But it wasn’t geography that shaped his path—it was sound.

One evening, when Jason was ten, while tuning into an Indians baseball game on the radio, something on the local jazz station stopped him cold. It was Coleman Hawkins’ legendary 1939 recording of Body and Soul. “That sound stopped me in my tracks,” Jason remembers. “I knew that was where I wanted to exist—inside that huge sound and soulful playing.” And from that moment, the saxophone wasn’t just an instrument—it was home.