Results for "flute"

Marc Berner

Born: December 28, 1956

Marc Berner began his musical odyssey in Port Chester, New York at the age of seven, playing the odd combination of bugle and piccolo. His fingers couldn't cover the holes of the originally desired clarinet, thus piccolo was the woodwind suggested. The c flute followed soon after, and some years later came the alto, bass and contra bass flutes, as well as the soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, along with some trumpet. Marc's recording debut came in 1973 with his then neighbor, Noel Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul and Mary), playing flute on Noel's Something New and Fresh album

Wouter Kellerman

Wouter Kellerman's album Two Voices won the 2011 SAMA (South African Music Award, equivalent to the American Grammy) for 'Best Instrumental Album', reinforcing his status as one of South Africa's foremost musicians. A true crossover artist, Kellerman thrives on experimenting with the shades, textures and colours that his magic flute is capable of painting, and creatively blending them with other instrumentation and vocal sounds.

The SAMA-winning flute wizard, who performed at the 2010 FIFA World Cup Closing Ceremony to a global television audience of 700-million people, has spent the past few years cooking up several potent compositions with an array of top South African and other African artists — and his latest album MZANSI is the result.

Linda Witsell

Born: January 18, 1952

Linda Witsell is putting the myth of F. Scott Fitzgerald's remark that there are no second acts in American lives to rest. A former corporate recruiter, Linda began her career as a jazz flutist in 2000 when she met vocalist and visual artist Laurence Walden from Chicago, Illinois. She began performing with him and his band at the LaVilla Grill in Jacksonville, FL. Her association with Walden exposed her to various forms of jazz and she traveled with his band performing in Chicago, New Orleans, Miami and Atlanta. Walden, a playwright also, invited Linda to play the role of Narrator in his play, “Me and Mr

Stuart Quimby

Born: August 8, 1956

Stuart Quimby has at any one time been a Classical and Jazz Composer, and Professional Musician (flute, vocals, most of the baroque wind instruments, the Balinese gamelan instruments suling bali, saron, and reong, the blues harp and chromatic harmonica, the trumpet, various keyboards (esp. early synths), and several experimental instruments of his own design). In addition he’s been a Music Educator, Network Analyst and Designer, Security Consultant, Geometer, Lecturer on Childhood Education, Applied Mathematician, Toy Manufacturer and Designer, Chef, Programmer, Restaurateur, Mechanical Engineer,and General Fool. Quimby has studied with Richard Davis, Paul Robeson, Les Thimmig, Roscoe Mitchell, Robert Dick, Doc Cheatham, Jean-Pierre Rampal, and Frans Brüggen among many others

Rebecca Kleinmann

Rebecca Kleinmann is an acclaimed flutist, singer, and composer with a twenty year professional career marked by diversity and improvisation. In the words of Latin Grammy Nominated pianist and composer, Jovino Santos Neto, “Rebecca plays flute with the passion of a flamenco dancer.” An explorer at heart, she rockets and flows between genres, one day leading, The Rebecca Kleinmann Jazz Quartet, with pianist Alex Conde, bassist Gary Brown, and drummer Marlon Aldana, the next day performing with a Brazilian Choro ensemble, and then later that night jamming in flamenco juergas. Rebecca’s international career has taken her to perform on stages in Argentina, Brazil, and Europe including the Melbourne’s International Women in Jazz Festival, as well as being featured at the SF Jazz Center, the San Jose Jazz Festival, Yoshi’s San Francisco, and the Oakland Paramount Theatre closer to home

Katisse Buckingham

Katisse is neither your average jazz musician, nor your average MC. A saxophone and flute virtuoso, he combines musicianship and poetry to create a flow that leaves every listener in awe. Growing up in Los Angeles studying jazz performance, he cites John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme and Run DMC’s Sucker MC’s as equally important influences. In the words of multi-Grammy-award winning pianist Billy Childs, “Nobody's doing any shit like this." “I just want to say how much I dug this record!” he says. Widely recognized for his talent, Katisse has recorded for some of the world’s greatest musicians, including Prince, Lionel Richie, Dr

John Gibson

Born: May 5, 1966

BM music from Northeastern IL University Attended Berklee College of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Performs and records extensively in the LOS Angeles area

Hiroaki Honshuku

Born: November 26

Hiroaki Honshuku, Leader - Flute, EWI Hiroaki Honshuku was first introduced to jazz in 1985 while teaching music at the US Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan. A gradute of both Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory, he has studied with various jazz luminaries including George Russell, Dave Holland and George Garzone, among others. Later, Honshuku went on to teach at NEC as well as Longy School of Music. Hiro had been an assistant director for late George Russell at the New England Conservatory from 1987 until Russell's retirement. Hiro has been deeply inspired by Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept for Tonal Organization, which now characterizes Hiro's writing style using Tonal Gravity without any traditional II-V-I resolution. Hiro has played with Mike Stern, Dave Liebman, Mick Goodrick, Dave Weckl, Tiger Okoshi, Maria Schneider, and Tom McKinley, among others, and has appeared on over 25 albums

Tim Weisberg

TIM WEISBERG is back on the radar! In 2010 Tim decided to get out and start performing again. As usual Tim has surrounded his recent performances with world class musicians, such as Barnaby Finch, Lynn Keller, David Derge, David Hughes and his guitar player since 1988, Chuck Alvarez. Tim is one of the pioneers in rock/jazz fusion who’s incredible career includes 20 albums on the biggest record labels in the business including A&M, Columbia, Warner Brothers, and MCA. He has sold over 5 million albums and played some of the largest venues in the world. Two of Tim's albums are collaborations with the gifted singer, songwriter, Dan Fogelberg, which include their platinum album, "Twin Sons Of Different Mothers,” containing the hit “The Power of Gold.” Tim’s bands are legendary and have been known as a proving ground for the likes of David Benoit, Art Johnson and Lynn Blessing.

Kana Miyamoto

Born: January 27, 1987

Kana Miyamoto is a New York based flutist, educator, composer originally from Japan. Kana Recently released her debut album ''Spring Doze'' with her group Kanacept. She started playing flute at age of 13, In 2012 She won first place for Junior High School Solo Flute Division Solo and ensemble competition for Chiba Preference of All Japan Band Association brought her the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan awarded Kana an, "Up-and-Coming Artist Overseas Training System" grant, which allowed her to study abroad to U.S. in 2002. Kana returned to Japan to pursue and graduated a degree in Music at Tokyo College of Music in 2011