Results for "Jazz piano"

Yujung Jung

Born: May 22, 1980

Yujung Jung is a pianist, composer, and educator. She was named the 2010 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Emerging Artist at the Kennedy Center, further honing her musical palette at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, she began playing the piano at the age of 6 and grew up immersed in both listening to and playing gospel music. She pursued her studies in musical performance in her home country and worked as a session keyboardist with numerous K-pop artists. Yujung has graced the stage in over 1,000 concerts, events, and TV shows, including appearances at the Jarasum Jazz Festival, LG Art Center concert, 88 Olympic Hall, and on MBC television shows like I Am A Singer, Mask Singers, and KBS Sketchbook.

Rowan McJimsey

Born: February 28, 2005

Born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Rowan McJimsey began playing piano at age four, and started studying jazz at age eleven with trombonist and harmonica player Phil Arnold. Shortly thereafter, he began playing numerous gigs with renowned Albuquerque-based jazz vocalist Carla Van Blake, with guitarist Steve Terwilliger, bassist Micky Patten, and saxophonist Arlen Asher. Concurrently, he joined the Youth Jazz Collaborative of New Mexico, a jazz ensemble for middle- and high-school students, directed by Arnold.

At age thirteen, Rowan began studying with pianist and University of New Mexico music professor Jim Balagurchik, who helped him develop his solo piano repertoire and introduced him to more advanced theory concepts. At age sixteen, he began studying with jazz pianist, bassist, and former Berklee professor John Funkhouser, who introduced him to more advanced improvisation concepts and increased his technical proficiency at the keyboard.

Matt Peterson

Matt Peterson is a multi award-winning composer and pianist from Seattle, WA.  He is an accompanist at the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, a piano and composition teacher at the Bellas Artes School of Music in Glen Ellyn, IL,, as well as an in-demand classical and jazz performer in the greater Chicago area.   He has taught class piano at Wheaton College and currently has a studio of 35 weekly private students.  He also records classical, jazz, and pop albums for Player Piano Premier.   He is the in-house pianist at Suzette's Creperie in Wheaton, playing every Saturday night from September to May.  

According to the Sound

Active since: 2019

Adam and Patrick met as composition students in their first week at Birmingham Conservatoire. Since then, they have worked consistently, writing, and recording music in a variety of musical styles ranging from Jazz (mainly) to electronica and rap. A key feature of their music is their close collaboration with musicians in Bristol and in the US, particularly in New York and their consistent use of Studios in Bristol, in London (Premises studio, Alchemy mastering) and New York (The Bunker studio) in order to focus their sound. They are currently working on their third album.

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Eunmi Lee

Eunmi Lee is a New York-based Korean jazz pianist, composer, and educator who is fearless in experimenting with blending her cultural background with contemporary Jazz. At a young age, she discovered her love for music. She did her associate degree at the Seoul Institute of Arts in Korea.

After graduating, she worked as a professional musician in many different fields, including theater, bandstand, and media music in Korea. In 2016, she expanded her music horizon by studying and playing abroad during her Bachelor of Music degree in the Netherlands as a Jazz piano major with a Holland National Excellence scholarship.

Keith Brown

Born: August 13, 1983

Keith L. Brown is an accomplished composer, educator, and pianist, who has established himself as one of the most sought-after pianists in contemporary jazz. He was born in Memphis, TN, and raised in Knoxville, TN, where he began playing piano and bass at a young age. Keith grew up in a musically inclined family, where both his parents were musicians, and many of his aunts and uncles possessed exceptional musical talent. His father, Donald Brown, is a world-renowned jazz pianist/composer, having performed with many greats, and his mother, Dorothy, is also a pianist who plays various woodwind instruments.

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Eivind Stordal

Eivind Stordal started playing piano at 7 years old. As a young boy he grew up playing psalms and played piano for the church choir. Later he found his passion in jazz and pop. His greatest inspiration where Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock and the swedish pianist Jan Johanson. Eivind Stordal studied mathematics and became a self taught piano player. He is interested in exploring the interplay between the naive, melodious and consontant, and oppsoing dissonance.

Eivind Stordal plays piano in Ludum (a piano/drum duo) together with the drummer Mats Monstad. The duo plays avantguard music rooted in jazz traditions from both sides of the atlantic.

Peter Rushing

Born: September 27, 2001

Peter Rushing is a jazz pianist currently attending the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he is studying with Orrin Evans. At the age of 11, Peter got his start studying jazz music at the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts, where he developed a love for the music of Herbie Hancock and Bill Evans. During high school, he played with the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Jazz ensemble program under the direction of Josh Lawrence, Anthony Tidd, María Grand, and Sumi Tonooka, and studied with Tom Lawton of Temple University and the University of the Arts

Sarah LeMieux

Sarah LeMieux is a composer, performer, and educator. As a performer, her primary genres are Jazz and Acoustic/Americana, but as a composer she works across genres, from Electroacoustic and Experimental, to Chamber, Bluegrass, Folk and String music. 

Sarah and her ensembles have played at the National Women in Blues Festival, International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Hartford's Infinity Hall, and the historic Oakdale Theater. The Sarah LeMieux Quintet won "Best Jazz" at the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Connecticut Music Awards, with "Moments Musicaux" winning Album of the Year for 2015. Sarah also composes for and performs with the award-winning six piece Americana band The Girls from Ruby Falls, and Madame Thalia's Vaudeville review, as well as creating Electroacoustic music and audiovisual installations. Her original score for “Monday and the Winter Moon” won Best Composer at CIFT Festival of Toronto, was an Official Selection at the Southeast International Film and Music Festival 2020, and was Semi-Finalist, Best Composer, Montreal Independent Film Festival (November 2020).