Results for "guitar, electric"

Hébert

Born: October 8, 1958

Jean-marc Hébert: He is a guitarist and a composer, initially trained in classical guitar. He recorded about fifteen

albums in varius styles as a performer and also as a co-composer. His carrer has been influenced by explorations

outside jazz culture notably through world music.

Martin Iaies

Born: July 18, 1990

Martín Iaies is an Argentinian jazz guitarist, composer, arranger and educator currently based in Vienna, Austria. With a musical language rooted in jazz tradition but always exploring new forms, he’s part of a generation of emerging jazz artists pushing the boundaries of the genre — blending contemporary jazz, Latin American influences, and modern ensemble writing.
 

Born into a family of musicians, Martín started playing piano at age 4, guided by his grandmother and his father, Adrián Iaies — a respected jazz pianist and composer. As a teenager, driven by his love for rock, he picked up the guitar and soon realized that music was more than a passion — it was his path.
 

Hein Westgaard

Born: March 4, 1996

Hein Westgaard is a guitarist, improviser and composer from Oslo, currently based in Copenhagen.  He can be heard in the post-minimalistic quartet Ototoi, his own genre bending project Hein Westgaard Trio, in ad-hoc free improvised constellations, or in the solo acoustic guitar format where he focuses on his own instrumental songs in the fingerpicking tradition.

The members of Hein Westgaard Trio met in Copenhagen in 2017, and since then they have deepened and matured their unique form of interplay, preparing themselves for the international stage. 

Playing their very own kind of experimental music, Hein Westgaard Trio is clearly inspired by free improvisation and jazz, but also by country, rock, folk and classical music

James Robert Murphy

When exposing the lives of others, we reveal our own fractured personality. When you try to be honest about your take on other people, your own weaknesses and insecurities emerge for all to inspect." This is regarding my embellished memoir, My Life Before I Decided To Commit Suicide.

I have earned an MA from the University of Oklahoma in Administrative Leadership and a BS from the State University of New York with a concentration in Arts Management. I am the principal founding member of the New York State Blues Festival, serving as festival director from 1992-2003, and again in 2013-2014. I co-founded the Syracuse Guinness Irish Festival, serving as festival director from 1999-2003. Both of these community events continue to be popular in Syracuse, NY. 

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Ron Magril

Born: November 30, 1997

Ron Magril (born November 30th, 1997) is a rising jazz guitarist and composer from Tel Aviv, Israel.

These days, He is performing regularly as a leader and as a sideman with leading artists such as ‘Sugarman 3’ , having played at some of the world’s most known Jazz festivals and venues.

He started his musical journey at a young age, with his classical violinist grandfather teaching him to play the violin, he then fell in love with the guitar, and studied at Israel’s top jazz schools.  Ron was awarded a scholarship from the “New school” in New York (2019), the AICF (2018-2020) and ‘Ran Baron’ excellence scholarships (2016). Ron was  supported by the Israel’s Ministry of culture and sports (2021).

Mario Castelberg

Born: April 12, 1995

Mario Castelberg (*1995, from Grub AR, CH) is a Swiss guitarist and composer. Castelberg studied at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts under Kalle Kalima and Frank Möbus, earning a Master of Arts in Music Jazz Performance and Composition under Ed Partyka, and graduated with the highest honors. Since then, he has been living in Lucerne and working as a freelance musician and instrumental pedagogue. He moves musically between modern jazz, free improvisation, psychedelic rock, and ambient and skillfully mixes these genres. He plays and composes for the Lyft Trio, and in 2018, he released their debut album "Traveller," which he founded

Jan Knutson

Washington based guitarist and composer, Jan Knutson, incorporates elements of Jazz and Classical , Bluegrass and Pop to create his original works and unique takes on classic jazz standards. His music explores and stretches the wide range of the guitar as a solo instrument, showcasing his lyricism and virtuosic command. He has performed with some of the world’s finest guitarists including Frank Vignola, Martin Taylor, and Julian Lage, and recorded four solo albums, Looking Both Ways (2016) ,Out of Nowhere (2014), Tunnel Visions (2023), and  Here's the Thing (2023). He has performed in several music festivals including the Savannah Acoustic Music Seminar, Richmond Folk Festival, True Blue Jazz Festival, Marlow International Guitar Series, and was an Artist in Residence at the Strathmore Music Center in Washington, DC.

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Andrew Ginzel

Born: January 5, 2001

Andrew Ginzel is a sought-after professional guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, and educator in the San Diego area.

His ability to perform and produce many genres of music is his strength. His versatility to switch from Rock, Alternative, and Indie stylings to genres such as CCM, Funk, Jazz, Folk, and Gospel keep him in demand as a professional live and studio guitarist and producer.

Originally from the Central Illinois area, he moved to San Diego when he started high school. He has received a B.A. in Commercial Music Composition and Production at Point Loma Nazarene University (2022)