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Brian Camelio

Born: October 15, 1965

Brian Camelio is a Grammy® Award Winning producer, guitarist, composer and the founder of ArtistShare. Most notably he is widely considered to be the father of the "crowdfunding" model by forming ArtistShare in September, 2000. ArtistShare is a music industry business model where the fans fund the creation of new recordings and the artist is paid before the recording is released. To this date ArtistShare Artists have received a total of 11 GRAMMY awards and 32 GRAMMY nominations since 2004. The first ArtistShare fan- funded project release was entitled Concert in the Garden by American composer Maria Schneider

Gabriel Vicéns

Born: March 16, 1988

Acclaimed by Downbeat Magazine as “a thoughtful improviser with a quiet tone who makes every note count," Manhattan-based guitarist, composer, improviser, and painter Gabriel Vicéns is one of the most in-demand guitarists on the New York City jazz scene. Originally from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, Vicéns made a move to NYC after a four-year Professorship at the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. He has been mentored by an impressive list of performers and composers, including Ray Anderson, Carlos Cabrer, Miguel Zenón, David Sánchez, Daria Semegen, Paul Bollenback, Antonio Hart, Fernando Mattina, Lois V Vierk, and Luis Perdomo

Matt Baker

Australian born Jazz Pianist Matt Baker leads a powerful trio in New York City where he has called home since 2010, performs regularly as a sideman at jazz venues including Birdland and The Blue Note, and in 2017 released his latest DVD album “Live at Birdland”. His sideman credits include engagements with guitar icon Bucky Pizzarelli, tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm and vocalists Ann Hampton Callaway, Jennifer Holliday, Patti LaBelle, Veronica Swift (2015 Monk competition winner), Tierney Sutton, Arianna Neikrug (2015 Sarah Vaughan competition winner) and Judy Collins. Matt Baker was an award winner himself in the 2003 Montreux International Solo Jazz Piano competition and a semi-finalist in 2004 and 2005

Renato Diz

Born: July 30, 1986

Renato Diz is a Portuguese pianist, composer and producer based in New York. Born in Porto, Portugal, Renato studied classical piano exclusively for 12 years, under the tutelage of Dr. Rui Pintão, at Fundação Conservatório Regional de Gaia. A chance encounter with jazz at a concert by pianist and composer Carlos Azevedo, introduced him to the world of improvised music and he decided to pursue his studies in this art. In 2004 he became a private student of Carlos Azevedo and in 2006 he was accepted in the leading jazz program on the Iberian Peninsula at the time, for a Bachelor’s Degree in Musical Performance at ESMAE - IPP in Porto

Juan Andrés Ospina

Born: March 10, 1979

Juan Andrés Ospina is a Colombian composer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and multidisciplinary creator whose work moves between large-scale ensemble projects, improvised performance and hybrid music–comedy formats. His artistic practice blends composition, storytelling and spontaneous creation across concert halls, digital media and collaborative contexts.

Ospina has composed extensively for big band and large ensemble, creating project-based orchestras assembled for each performance and musical context. He is also the creator of 12 Esferas, a fully improvised vocal concert built in real time. He created the ensemble Juan Andrés Ospina y la Orquesta Efímera, a large-scale orchestral improvisation project premiered at Barcelona’s La Mercè festival, where the music is created collectively in real time on stage with an ensemble of exceptional musicians. He is currently preparing the release of De paso (2026), a new album of original songs.

Matt Mitchell

Born: 1975

Matt Mitchell is a pianist and composer interested in the intersections of various strains of acoustic, electric, composed, and improvised new music. He currently composes for and leads several ensembles featuring many of the current foremost musicians and improvisers, including Tim Berne, Kim Cass, Kate Gentile, Ben Gerstein, Jon Irabagon, Travis Laplante, Ava Mendoza, Miles Okazaki, Ches Smith, Chris Speed, Tyshawn Sorey, Chris Tordini, Anna Webber, Dan Weiss. He is an anchor member of several significant creative music ensembles which integrate composed and improvised music, including Tim Berne’s Snakeoil, the Dave Douglas Quintet, John Hollenbeck’s Large Ensemble, Dan Weiss’s Starebaby, Jonathan Finlayson’s Sicilian Defense, Steve Coleman’s Natal Eclipse, Kate Gentile’s Mannequins, Mario Pavone’s Blue Dialect Trio, Anna Webber’s Simple Trio, Ches Smith’s We All Break, the Dave King Trio, and Quinsin Nachoff’s Flux

John Blevins

Born in Michigan, raised in Indiana, and now home in New York City, trumpeter and composer John Blevins has performed and/or recorded with Matterhorn, Line of Sight, Wing Walker Orchestra, Drew Williams Nonet, Cerebral People Project, Festival of New Trumpet Music, Trumpet City, Out of Your Head Brooklyn, iconiQ: The Soundtrack Orchestra, Noah & the MegaFauna, Spirit Animal, Morningsiders, Atomic Funk Project, Brooks Frederickson, Leave a Lasting Mark, and Actionplay among others. John's latest original project, MATTERHORN, released its debut album on pfMENTUM records in November 2015

Nina Vidal

Born: April 20

“Nina Vidal takes her inspiration from a wide array of classic female singers…she breaks loose with a subdued, smoldering style,” -AllMusic.com. Timeless. The word most often used to describe singer/songwriter Nina Vidal. Embodying the elegance of Jazz and the sincerity of Soul, Nina breathes life into the meaning of a song with her rich, smokey voice. Nina's career seems as destined as her name. Born Nina Simone Vidal she began playing piano as a child. By her teens she was writing poetry and shaping ideas into songs. Originally looking to pursue a career as a songwriter, Nina's path would dramatically change while she was studying music business at New York University in Manhattan

Jesse Fischer

Born: January 4, 1980

Jesse Fischer is a Brooklyn-based pianist, composer, and producer. Known for his warm, soulful touch and emphasis on melody, groove, storytelling and emotion, his unique voice combines elements of his own Jewish heritage with music of the African diaspora, jazz, hip- hop, and singer-songwriter genres. A recent awardee of the South Arts Jazz Road grant, as well as a three-time ASCAP Plus Award winner, Fischer has performed with many notables in the jazz, pop, and world music scenes, including Becca Stevens, Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Mino Cinélu, Grace Kelly, Lakecia Benjamin, and Deva Mahal. He has released several records as a leader, most recently Resilience (self-released, 2020), which PostGenre called “One of the best jazz albums of the summer of 2020”, and the Herbie Hancock/Head Hunters remix project Vein Melter (Tru Thoughts, 2015), created jointly with producer/multi-instrumentalist Sly5thAve. He is also a core member of the groundbreaking Brooklyn Afro-pop/jazz fusion collective Ajoyo and producer & engineer of their sophomore release, War Chant.

Tim Kiah

Tim Kiah is a Brooklyn based composer, vocalist, and bassist. As a composer, his works have been premiered at venues such as Lincoln Center and Carnegie hall, and have been broadcast on NPR. As a member and composer of the Chelsea Symphony, he premiered his tenth symphonic work with the orchestra this season. As a vocalist, bass player, and arranger, Tim tours internationally. He performs many genres of music, including Americana, jazz, classical, and avant-garde. He has been aired on NPR, BBC, and NDR, with and is a featured member and co-composer in Roy Nathanson’s Sotto Voce ensemble. Kiah is also a member of a group led by the iconic mandolinist and clarinetist Andy Statman, and has recorded and performed with Deborah Harry, Joan LaBarbara, and Lenny Kravitz