Results for "guitar, electric"

Danil Zverkhanovsky

Born: March 28, 1994

As a kid growing up in Kyiv, Danil had a choice between pursuing painting or playing guitar. After a few years of trial he’d left the former behind and made the latter into a profession. The time spent studying at the Glier college of music under Volodymyr Shabaltas was crucial for his musical identity and created long lasting ties with many prominent Ukrainian musicians.

In 2012 Zverkhanovsky goes out to Graz for his first foreign land experience and spends a term studying at University of Arts. Among the most significant musical experiences he’s found there were classes with trumpeter Stjepko Gut.

Duane Betts

There is learning and there is knowing. From sit-ins, sessions, and sideman shifts, Duane Betts learned. Then, Duane Betts knew. The Los Angeles-based guitarist, singer, and songwriter knew it was time to take all that he learned and make it his own. It was time to step out from the side of the stage and move to the center. After celebrated stints with folk-rock darlings Dawes and his dad Dickey Betts’ post-Allman Brothers Band outfit, Great Southern, Duane Betts knew it was time to go solo. So, arrives his long-awaited recording debut: Sketches of American Music. With venerable guitar, timeworn vocals and enlightened, seasoned songwriting on a six-pack of instant favorites, Duane delivers five of his own freshly-drawn rock-and-roll portraits brilliantly colored in country and blues, plus a special homage to his Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame dad Dickey Betts

Rex Shepherd

Guitarist and composer Rex Shepherd has been writing and performing music for more than 30 years. Initially a rock and blues player, Shepherd became entranced by the playing of guitarist Jim Hall on the first listen. He began learning the jazz language on guitar, studying at the University of Akron in Ohio, growing toward becoming a known performer and composer in the Cleveland area. His musical journey began with an affinity for the more "outside" music of Wayne Shorter, Ornette Coleman, Sam Rivers, and Anthony Braxton. His current style, which is grown from the jazz tradition, employs a liberal application of melody and suggestive harmonies enabling free expression of musical ideas in a context he refers to as conceptual improvisation

Jayden Leach

Born: July 3, 1979

Once I was a professional poker player, but music is my life. Being musician is a dream for me and I am more than thankful that they made my dream come true! As one of their main musicians, I need to not disappointing my fans. My job is more than perfect and it suits me better than I’ve even imagined!

Toni Mora

Born: October 16, 1980

Toni Mora was born in Madrid (Spain) where he began his musical studies at the young age of 10 learning classical guitar at the Reina Sofía Conservatory in Madrid. Few years later he begins to study Jazz guitar with a private teacher from his home town. In 2004 he receives a scolarship to study in The Netherlands where he completed a 4 years Bachelor Program in Jazz Guitar Performance and Teaching at the Conservatory of Rotterdam (CODARTS).

He had the chance to participate in Masterclasess with some of the greatest musicians in the Jazz World like Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Scofield, Richard Bona, Mike Stern, Jonathan Kreisberg, Jeff Ballard, etc

Jurgen Burdorf

Born: 1980

When Jurgen Burdorf first heard Mark Knopfler at the age of 9, he decided to pick up the guitar. Other players he was influenced by are Bill Frisell, Steve Lukather and Dutch guitar great Eef Albers. He studied jazz guitar at the Amsterdam Conservatory, but never limited himself to one kind of music. Through the years he played indie-pop with singer Janne Schra (Room Eleven), modern composed music by Oene van Geel, Chiel Meijering and Steven Kamperman in plays by Holland Opera, country in a Dolly Parton tribute show (also on mandolin) and in musicals like Jersey Boys and Saturday Night Fever

Mika Pontecorvo

Born: August 23, 1955

Mika was born in San Francisco California in 1955. While living just outside of a small desert town in Nevada, he began his sound explorations: first playing with his grandfather's shortwave radios and, then, later on, in his early teens, playing a number of home made string and wind instruments, a sitar, and experimenting with prepared electric guitar using gum-wrappers and played with a violin bow and an electric razor. From these early experiments Mika's improvisational/compositional reach was extended in the early to mid-1970s employing a modular synthesizer and tape loop echo machines in live electronic treatment of acoustic instruments (soprano saxophone, flute, voice, prepared fender-rhodes piano, and acoustic guitar primarily.) He studied composition in university under Professor Vladimir Ussachevsky, and helped teach a graduate level electronic music composition seminar series and under-graduate computer music courses, while completing a Computer Science Degree

Stephen McKeand

Born: February 26, 1974

Vinay Kaushal

Born: December 27, 1989

Musician's Institute (Hollywood) alumni and Fender Artist Vinay Kaushal is all about writing music that resonates with the soul. A musician and composer proficient in various styles of music, Vinay's originals are an "instant earworm" (Rolling Stone Magazine), telling a story brimming with individuality yet immensely relatable to every audience. Music released under Vinay’s name boasts stylistic versatility. Growing up surrounded by Indian classical music and being formally trained in western contemporary music has given Vinay the advantage of either being able to seamlessly blend various genres or compose music in any one genre

Pavle Miljenović

Born: June 12, 1982

Pavle is a Croatian jazz guitarist and composer. He has finished his jazz studies at Kaertner Landeskonservatorium in Klagenfurt (Austria) with his teacher prof. Agostino Di Giorgio (USA) and has played music with a lot of world class musicians. He has recorded music with Croatia’s top musicians, composed music for the theatre and has been an educator over a decade.