Results for "flute"

Alyce Santoro

I am a conceptual/sound artist and musician best known as the inventor of Sonic Fabric, a textile woven from audiocassette tape recorded with collages of sound.

Kalani Trinidad

Born: November 27, 1987

Flautist/composer Enrique (Kalani) Trinidad was born in Dallas Texas, November 27, 1987. At an early age, he moved to Puerto Rico with his family. He started his musical journey at the age of 9 when one day he came home with a recorder flute playing different popular songs by ear, his father, pianist Richard Trinidad noted his talent and enrolled him in formal flute lessons. For Kalani it was evident that music was going to be important in his life and in only one year, he was playing flute in different festivals around his hometown in Carolina, Puerto Rico were he felt for the first time the love and acceptances from the audience

Itai Kriss

About Itai Kriss, a recording artist praised by Jazzwax as “one of the most exciting new flutist-composers” on the scene, commands a variety of musical genres with an eclectic style infused with Jazz, Latin and Middle Eastern sounds. According to Downbeat Magazine, there is a “tangy, exotic flavor” to the New York musician’s style, which can be heard on his latest album, The Shark. The album features Kriss’ “soaring technique and phrasing that is both aggressive and pastoral,” which displays the versatility of his command of the flute, shifting through genres from funk and reggae to salsa and Arabic stylings with fluid ease. Kriss is based in New York, where he is vital member of the downtown and Brooklyn Jazz scenes and the Latin Jazz and Salsa music scenes

Paulo Chagas

Born: February 2, 1963

Composer, multi-instrumentist, improviser and teacher

Bobb Fantauzzo

Born: June 20, 1949

Bobb Fantauzzo headlines JazZen, the Minneapolis based trio that embraces the essence of jazz with highly unusual instrumentation and inspired soloing. The organic timbre of Fantauzzo's wooden flutes, weaving through the swirling undercurrents provided by Aaron Kerr's electric cello and Derrin Pinto's drum kit, opens new sonic possibilities and creates a distinct sound that is simultaneously primitive and contemporary.

As a child growing up in Rochester, NY, Bobb Fantauzzo appeared to have limited musical ability: he was kicked out of band in middle school for "keeping time by tapping with both feet". Although he felt a need to create music for several years, Fantauzzo didn't find the "right" instrument to do so until almost 40 years later when he was seduced by the sound of the Native American flute in 1998

Geni Skendo

Geni Skendo is a contemporary flute & shakuhachi player fluent in jazz, classical, and Japanese traditional music idioms. Originally from Albania, Geni came to the United States in 2002 to further his musical studies. Prior to leaving Albania, he performed with the Albanian National Folk Ensemble, various symphonic orchestras, and jazz bands.

Upon his arrival in the US, Geni began to study jazz flute and the Japanese five-hole flute known as the shakuhachi, completting a Masters Degree in Contemporary Improvisation at the New England Conservatory with a focus on jazz flute and shakuhachi performance.

Geni has performed with the Violent Femmes • {{m: Bob Moses = 9637}} • Matt Marvuglio • {{m: Allan Chase = 5656}}, {{m: Joe Morris = 9614}}, Jerry Leake, {{m: John Lockwood = 20418}}, Bob Gulioti, Bob Nitscke • Felice Pomeranz • Dave Clark • Elena Zoubareva • {{m: David Fiuczynski = 13912}} • {{m: Mark Walker = 15476}} • Sal Difusco • Joe Hunt • Dave Harris • Jerry Beaudin • NewPoli.

Geni's recording credits include CDs with Joe Morris, Dave Fuze, Newpoli, and Elena Zoubareva

Magnus Pires

Magnus Pires is a Brazilian flutist, born in July 8th, 1948 in Manaus, Amazon, but living in Rio de Janeiro since 1950. His mother was a professional crooner in the fifties and his aunt played guitar and sung in an all woman trio. Magnus is also a composer and arranger. He started his career as a classical flute player, playing in the Rio de Janeiro Federal University Orchestra. But being jazz his primary interest Magnus switched definitively its goals toward the Jazz/Samba direction. Magnus studied flute at the ProArt Music school in Rio with the parisian flutist Odett Ernst, but his jazz formation is self taught

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Gareth Lockrane

Gareth Lockrane started playing at the age of 10 and after raiding his dad's record collection discovered jazz at 14. Early influences included Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Bill Evans and Stan Getz on the jazz side whilst also being transfixed by the great blues-rock guitarists of the 60s and 70s as a child - Jimi Hendrix, Albert King, Albert Collins, Freddie King, Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy continue to be major influences. On flute the initial main inspirations were saxophone "doublers" like Frank Wess, James Clay, Roland Kirk, Bobby Jaspar and James Moody and later on he fell under the spell of flute visionaries like Jeremy Steig, Eric Dolphy, Hubert Laws, Paul Horn, Eddie Parker and James Newton amongst many others

Matt Samolis.

Matt Samolis has been working in sonic and visual mediums since 1987. He began studying flute, and later composition and tenor banjo. He has worked with ensembles at New England Conservatory, Brandeis University, Berklee, and Tufts, as well as Open Hand Theatre, Pilgrim Research Collaborative, Mobius, Roy Hart Theatre, and numerous other projects. Currently, his primary focus is as a composer, and as flutist with various local performance groups and his drone alliance, The Metal & Glass Ensemble. He is also found about town practicing freelance photography.