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James Lloyd

For over three decades, keyboardist, composer and arranger James K. Lloyd has been the aural architect of Pieces of a Dream. As a co-founder of the group, Lloyd composed and co-wrote over 100 compositions, from the '80's summer anthem "Mount Airy Groove" to "Love's Silhoutte." Born in Philadelphia on August 30, 1964, Lloyd starting playing piano at the age six. A graduate of Philadelphia's High School of Performing Arts, Lloyd was inspired to take up the instrument when his older brother started playing it. LLoyd was classically trained by an 89 year-old piano teacher who exposed him Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Mozart

Dan Pinto

____Dan Pinto is a seasoned composer in instrumental music. As a multi-instrumentalist with most varieties of keyboards, drums and percussion, his writing styles include Jazz-rock Fusion, New Age and Orchestral Rock. He has several CDs and continues to release one or two a year on average. Dan's music has been repeatedly applied to film and television as he continues to work with independent film producers on soundtrack material. His true passion is the piano which can be heard along with orchestral accompaniment throughout many of his compositions. He is an avid listener of classical music, a style of which he incorporates into his music as well. ____Dan Pinto began his musical career as a drummer in 1974, an instrument that he still holds onto firmly as he writes and performs the drums and percussion on all the music that he releases

Charles Wick

Born: February 2, 1986

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Nik Bärtsch

Born: 1971

With the zen-funk quintet RONIN founded in 2001, Nik Bärtsch, a composer and pianist from Zurich,- together with Kaspar Rast (drums), Björn Meyer (bass), Andi Pupato (percussion) and lately Sha (bass/contrabass clarinet), proceeds with his work on RITUAL GROOVE MUSIC. Their music consistently follows the same aesthetic vision under various instrumental guises: creating the maximum effect by minimal means. Despite the multiplicity of the band’s influences, Ronin’s music always possesses a strong individuality. They incorporate elements of disparate musical worlds, be they funk, new classical music or sounds from Japanese ritual music. However, these forms are never merely juxtaposed in a post-modernist fashion but instead amalgamated into a coherent new style

Van Taylor

Born: April 25, 1956

Van Taylor has entertained all over the world at various Resorts and Embassies for over 30 years. He is a songwriter, and owner of Van Taylor Production music publishing company, and TM International an Internet music distributor company. Van is an artist developer, concert promoter and event coordinator. Van is the bandleader of the internationally known R&B/Jazz band “Taylor Made Jazz”. They have three CDs on the market produced by Van Taylor. Van also owns the group VTP, “Van Taylor Project”, a Jazz-fusion presentation— using Funk, Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Blues, and Reggae. In 2008 Van Taylor and the band celebrated its 21st anniversary by donating proceeds to National inner-city youth opportunities and student against violence education. In 2009 Van Taylor organized and produced “Concert From The Heart” the 1st cross-genre concert bringing together classical, jazz rhythm and blues musicians to benefit the Foodbank of Western New York, and the Buffalo City Mission. The feature the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Taylor Made Jazz Concert Band, The Legendary Singer Lance Diamond, the Old School B-Boys, The Mark Mazur Big little Band. Over the course of 30 years, Van has helped educate hundreds of musicians, and thousands of children with musical workshops, and has provided shows for over a hundred thousand members of our U.S. troops, their families and our allies by lifting their spirits and morale with musical performances. Van has produced several successful artists, and many of his music students have opened their own businesses with their own bands, creating hundreds of jobs and providing uplifting entertainment for our service men and women.

Evan M

Born: 1974

Evan started playing piano at age 6. He completed a primary and secondary school with a degree of piano performer. Since then, he has been playing piano/keyboard, arranging and singing in talent shows, recitals, and has also performed in gigs with a classic rock band and a jazz band. Although his 11 years of piano training is primarily in classical music, he has been playing jazz, rock and pop all along. Email: [email protected] Home: Central Jersey

Buzz Amato

Born: November 9, 1953

Frank "Buzz" Amato is an independent writer, arranger, producer & keyboardist with over 25 years in the music industry. He appears on more than100 CDs (2 received platinum certification) as performer or producer. In the early 80s, Buzz toured the world with the legendary Curtis Mayfield as musical director and during that time became staff producer for Ichiban Records. In the 90s, Buzz focused on production & writing, working with some of music's finest such as Gerald Albright, Kirk Whalum, & Ben E King to name a few. In 2000, Buzz created Amatones Music. He composed music for CNN, Delta Airlines, & The Discovery Channel & scored 2 songs for the W.VA Symphony with the Bob Thompson jazz trio

Scott Kinsey

Jazz multi-keyboardist Scott Kinsey from Owosso, Michigan began studying piano at anearly age and almost instantly became interested in the synthesizer. After graduating fromBoston's Berklee College of Music in 1991, Scott moved to Los Angeles and was soontouring the world with the critically acclaimed electric jazz group “Tribal Tech”.

In addition to his work with Tribal Tech (feat. Scott Henderson and Gary Willis), Scott hasperformed and recorded with many of todays music greats such as James Moody, KurtRosenwinkel, Philip Bailey, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Bill Evans, Robben Ford, Gary Willis, WDRBig Band, Serj Tankian (System of a Down), David Holmes & The Free Association, JoeZawinul, Danny Carey (TOOL), Norrbotten Big Band, Tim Hagans, Bob Belden, NicholasPayton & Sonic Trance, Matt Garrison and many others.

Donald Fagen

Born: January 10, 1948

Donald Fagen’s Morph The Cat is just your average soulful and sexy masterpiece about love, death and homeland defense. “There’s nothing sexier than the Apocalypse,” Fagen explains helpfully. “I suppose you could call this album Apocalypse Wow.”

The darkly beautiful third solo effort from Fagen - the longtime co-leader of Steely Dan - follows 1981’s classic The Nightfly and 1993’s acclaimed Kamakiriad, and represents the latest installment in what now appears to be a powerful and at times deeply personal trilogy. “The Nightfly is sort of looking from the standpoint of youth, “Fagen explains. “Kamakiriad would be more about midlife. This new one is about endings really. So in a way this really has become a sort of trilogy. In fact, there are plans to put all three albums out in a box where they belong.”

Russell Ferrante

Born: January 18, 1952

Well known as the keyboardist for the group Yellowjackets, RussellFerrante was born in San Jose, California in 1952,and began studying piano at the age of 9 years old. His early musical experiences revolved around the church where his father was the choir master. His interest in jazz and improvisation was kindled in high school and shortly thereafter he began performing with various R&B and jazz groups in the San Francisco Bay Area. The bay area was an exciting place to be in the early 70’s with musicians freely combining musical styles. This exposure to seemingly every kind of music helped prepare Russell for his professional career which began in 1973