Results for "flute"

Ben Zahler

Born: July 3, 1979

Fascinated by the Piccolos of the Basel carnival, Ben Zahler picked up the flute at the age of eight. Yet, before he could switch to the Piccolo, he dived down into the world of Jazz clubs and never looked back.

After attaining his “Master of Arts” at the Swiss Jazz School Bern with Andy Scherrer, Bert Joris and Günter Wehinger, he toured with his Band aloft (among others with Nadja Stoller and Stefan Rusconi) and recorded his first album We Do (TCB 26802). Other notable records include the Paul Klee record by the Swiss Jazz Orchestra directed by Jim McNeely.

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Kofi Burbridge

Born: September 22, 1961

Seventeen years ago, Kofi Burbridge moved to Atlanta to record an album. He's still waiting to finish it, but he hasn't exactly been sitting around. Kofi is that rarest of musicians - the combination virtuoso keyboard player/flautist. If he hasn't always known where he was headed, the path is his own, and he has traveled it his way. The journey started in the Bronx, NY, where Kofi was born on September 22, 1961 to William and Carol Burbridge. They moved to Washington, DC two years later, and Oteil Burbridge was born there in 1964. Sisters Leilani and Adero followed in 1968 and 1971. The boys made their musical talents obvious from an early age - Kofi's perfect pitch was discovered when he was six, and he began taking flute lessons

Yuka Kido

Yuka Kido
Japanese flutist and composer active in many international scenes such as Japan, Belgium, Brazil and more. Ms. Kido has various albums as a leader as well as collaborator with others in musical styles of Brazilian, Salsa, Jazz, Rock etc. One of her albums was ranked the top 8 in Italy. She has performed in Brazil with well known artists of Bossa Nova and other Brazilian music scenes, including Joyce Moreno, Johnny Alf, João Donato, Carlos Lyra, Toninho Horta and many more.  She has also performed and recorded with one of the most important Danish jazz bassists, Niels Pedersen, as well as jazz pianist Duke Jordan and famous Japanese singer Kazufumi Miyazawa. Ms

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Born: May 29, 1979

Hanna Kim

Hanna Kim is a talented contemporary flutist, arranger, composer, improviser, songwriter, and a bandleader. Ms. Kim earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Bethesda University of California (Previous name is Bethesda Christian University), and the Master of Music degree in flute performance and conducting from California Baptist University at Riverside. Ms. Kim recently graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts as a dual major in songwriting and flute performance. She concentrated on jazz improvisation as a scholarship student in the Bachelor of Music Program at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

A musician from Seoul, South Korea, she is the recipient of the 2014-2015 Matthew Marvuglio Endowed Scholarship, 2013-2016 CJ International Scholarship, and 2013 Performance Division Woodwind Award. Ms. Kim was a principal flutist with the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra. She studied with flutists Elizabeth Rowe of the BSO. At Berklee, she studied with Matt Marvuglio and Mia Olson. She also studied with Jim Walker and Mary Oppermann. Her goal is be an influential jazz flutist, hymnal jazz artist, composer, composer and improviser.

Pietro Postorino

Born: January 1, 1970

Italian Jazz Flutist

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Marco Di Meco

Born: February 5, 1982

Marco Di Meco (born in Chieti on February 5th 1982) is an Italian flute player, composer, music producer and writer. Di Meco is one of new jazz musicians in the european and international music scene. He filtered elements of italian traditional music, bossanova, funk, pop and classical contemporary putting them in a new jazz language. Marco Di Meco plays a Jupiter diMedici silver flute.