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Vin Venezia

Born: October 18, 1960

Guitarist Vincent Venezia is a talent on today’s contemporary music scene. He began playing guitar at age eight, studying with various instructors from his hometown of Cliffside Park, New Jersey.

Accomplished in several styles of music, he is a veteran of Broadway and European tours and works steadily in the tri-state area as a leader, sideman and composer since graduating William Paterson College with a degree in Jazz Studies and Performance.

Vincent was instructed by the best performers of our time: jazz guitarists Bob DeVos, Harry Leahey and classical guitarist Leonid Bolotin.

Isaac Bustos

With prizes in over 12 International competitions, classical guitarist and pedagogue Dr. Isaac Bustos enjoys an extensive performing career that has taken him to Canada, Central America, Europe and all over the US. He is in demand as clinician and invited to perform in some of the most prestigious national and international guitar festivals. Bustos has premiered new music for guitar by composers Peter Askim, Frank Wallace, Peter Lieuwen and Nico Muhly. Chamber music collaborations have included performances with Grammy-Award winning artists such as the L.A. Guitar Quartet and Conspirare Singers

Alejandro Montiel

Described by Soundboard Magazine as a "flawless musician, filled to the brim with polished technique," guitarist Alejandro Montiel’s performance career has taken him throughout North America, China, Mexico, Central America, and Europe both as a solo artist and as a founding member of the acclaimed Texas Guitar Quartet. Dr. Montiel is on faculty at Sam Houston State University and Lone Star College-Montgomery where he directstheir respective guitar programs. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory and the University of Texas at Austin, he is a highly-sought after performer of new works as well as arranger of classical repertoire

Saul Cosme

Born: August 21, 1989

Saul Cosme is a Jazz guitar player, Composer and Music Educator born in Mexico city, based in New York since 2014.

He started playing guitar when he was 11 years old.

In Mexico he studied in Lafaro Jazz Institute where he played and learned from some of the best jazz musicians in Mexico such as Agustín Bernal, Hector Rodriguez, Gabriel Puentes, Roberto Verástegui, among others.

He has played in important scenarios, such as the Brazilian Cultural Center, “El Zocalo”, Museo Nacional, among other places.

Saul moved to New York to study Jazz Music at Purchase College in 2014 where he received the Joe Williams Scholarship, there he studied with the legendary musician John Abercrombie and Vic Juris and other important jazz musicians such as John Riley, Todd Coolman, Kenny Washington, Pete Malinverni, Doug Weiss, Jon Faddis and Andy Laverne.

In New York he has played in the most important jazz clubs in the world such as Blue Note, Birdland and Dizzy’s Club at Lincoln Center with different Jazz Orchestras led by Jon Faddis, Dr

Philipp Schiepek

Born: December 4, 1994

"When you listen to this music and are ready to get involved with it, doors open to a diverse universe of cross-genre impulses." (Elke Walter) Munich based guitarist Philipp Schiepek and his quartet, featuring Henning Sieverts on bass, Bastian Jütte on drums and New York based Seamus Blake on saxophone, present their debut album "GOLEM DANCE", which has just been released by ENJA-Records. When composing, Philipp Schiepek draws inspiration from everyday encounters, but also from characters from literature and art. The first and foremost goal of every composition is to carry an intensity that is not conveyed by volume, but rather by rhythmic and harmonic flexibility

Cedric Burnside

Take one glance at the iconic tintype photograph which serves as the cover to his new album, Benton County Relic, and you know immediately that Cedric Burnside is the real deal. “When I first saw it, I thought I looked like an outlaw,” he laughs. The 39-year-old still lives on several acres not far from the Holly Springs, Mississippi, home where he was raised by “Big Daddy,” his grandfather, the late singer/songwriter/guitarist R.L. Burnside whom Cedric famously played with, just as his own father, drummer Calvin Jackson, did. Cedric was literally born to the blues, more specifically, the “rhythmically unorthodox” Hill country variant which emerged from Mississippi, where he grew up surrounded (and influenced) by Junior Kimbrough, Jessie May Hemphill and Otha Turner, as well as delta musicians T-Model Ford and Paul “Wine” Jones. Grammy-nominated in 2015 for Best Blues Album for the Cedric Burnside Project’s Descendants of Hill Country, as well as the recipient of the Blues Music Awards honor as Drummer of the Year for four consecutive years, Cedric’s latest album offers a showcase for his electric and acoustic guitar, recording 26 tracks in just two days with drummer/slide guitarist Brian Jay in the latter’s Brooklyn home studio in a rush of creativity

Andy Schmidt

Born: 1960

I grew up in Milltown, NJ, with Grammy winner DAVID KIKOSKI as we have been good friends since 1st grade! His Dad taught me guitar in 3rd grade and his Dad played every instrument you can imagine! (piano, organ, guitar, drums, accordion, flute, clarinet, sax, and even the cow bell) I studied Music Theory in HS and again at Rutgers (Livingston College)! In my 1st drum class in 1980 with Freddy Waits, I was lucky to be sitting just 3 feet away from Papa Jo Jones as he performed one of his famous Hi-Hat solo's! What a great surprise! Freddie had his little 45rpm record player and played "Love is a Many Splendored Thing", and then after one listen, instructed all of us to go sit on his drums and play it! NAILED IT! Freddie also played "The Scene is Clean" and loved Clifford Brown, Max Roach and Sonny Rollins! I am a guitar player primarily but was lucky that I had a very talented brother who had a nice Ludwig set of drums at home for me to practice on! We played in cover bands in all the central NJ bars in the early 80's! After 33 years as a social worker at a NJ youth correctional facility, I am getting back into gigging and recording! My latest recordings are on YOUTUBE as I got tracks from Randy Brecker, Seamus Blake (Roger Waters), Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel), Todd Sucherman (Styx), Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel), and Trey Gunn (King Crimson)!!!  Seamus is a monster on the sax as he now tours with Roger Waters starting in 2022!!!  I'd love to get my music into a good FILM!!!

Elias Lucero

Felix Lemerle

Born: November 1, 1988

Félix Lemerle is a jazz guitarist & composer living in Brooklyn, New York.

Growing up in his native Paris, he was exposed to music at an early age thanks to his father, a jazz bass player. Initially trained as a classical pianist, he shifted his attention to guitar and jazz music in his teens, and started performing in France and Europe in various clubs and festivals. After graduating from the CRR de Paris with a Degree in Jazz & Improvised Music, he moved to New York City as a Fulbright Scholar to complete his Master in Jazz Performance at CUNY Queens College. There he quickly established himself on the scene, performing, recording and touring with some of the foremost musicians in the world

Bob Litzinger

Born: February 5, 1949