Results for "piano"

Stanley Sagov

Stanley Sagov is a dazzling jazz pianist and composer who is skilled on a number of other music instruments and who is also skilled with surgical instruments, as he simultaneously has a full time career as a medical doctor. He constantly amazes his colleagues in both music and in medicine with his ability to lead such an intense dual life both as a physician and as a musician. Dr. Sagov is always releasing a new CD and he produces enough music to fill the contents of a full CD almost every month in his home studio. Sagov is also a top notch photographer who shoots nature, people and places with the eyes of an unusually sensitive personality. Born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1944 to a Jewish family that had immigrated there to escape the chaos and anti-Semitism that followed the Russian Revolution, the young Sagov grew up in the midst of the horrid South African regime of Apartheid and its resulting police state. The young boy was born with Gordon’s Syndrome, an extremely rare genetic disorder which can cause club feet, cleft palate, dysplasia of the hip and also thumb in palm deformity

Guerino Mazzola

Born: February 2, 1947

Short Curriculum Vitae Guerino Mazzola • Swiss citizen • 1961-66 Gymnasium Typus B • 1966-71 Diploma in Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, • and Crystallography at University of Zürich • 1971 PhD in Mathematics • 1972-75 Postdoctoral Studies at Universities Paris-Sud and Rome • 1980 Habilitation in Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory • 1978-82 Lecturer at Universities of Zürich and Basel • 1980-84 Development of Mathematical Music Theory • 1981 Construction of Music Computer for Transformation Theory of Musical Patterns • 1984-86 Scientific director of the Darmstadt Symmetry-Project • 1986-89 Lecturer at University of Zürich • 1986-88 Director of SNSF-Project on Depth-EEG and Music Perception together with H

Danny Wright

Born: January 30, 1963

With 35 recordings and over 6 million albums sold, one can say that Danny Wright's music touches and uplifts people daily, both in the U.S. and around the world. One of the nation’s finest pianist/composers, Danny’s many recordings defies classification. He specializes in several music styles: adult contemporary compositions, Broadway show tunes and movie themes, and classical music. His original compositions tend to be in the adult contemporary mode, frequently inspired by classical composers such as Beethoven, Pachelbel and Debussy as well as by such Broadway greats as Gershwin, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jerome Kern and Stephen Sondheim

Felix Scott

Born: November 18, 1950

50 years of experience as a jazz/gospel keyboard player. I was a side man with Red Holloway and Sonny Stitt for many years back in the 1970's and 1980's. I still work every Sunday for Bethel Missionary Baptist Church where I am church musician.

Mark Adams

Mark Adams is a worldly soul jazz pianist who is proving to be the premiere jazz pianist of his generation. Mark, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, was introduced to the piano by his mother, Velma, a music teacher, at the tender age of 5. With a move to New York at the age of 12, Mark continued to prefect his craft with the encouragement of his father Kenneth, a successful classical and Broadway woodwind musician. Mark furthered augmented his musical talents at Greenwich House of Music School specializing in jazz and classical music, this he followed up by receiving a Bachelor degree in Music and Performance and Fine Arts at City College of New York. Among Marks many accomplishments is composing; performing in the Broadway musical production of “Guys Named Moe” and becoming an active faculty member of York College (CUNY) where he teaches music theory, as well as beginning and advanced piano techniques. As a published author and professor, Mark’s book “Basics” debuted in August 2010,and mirrors the courses he teaches at York College that include music theory, piano techniques, keyboard harmony, jazz techniques and improvisation.The inspiration and motivation for the book came from Mark’s observations that "development of one’s musical skills is essential to the development of jazz, and young people represent the future and their talents must be nurtured.”Mark’s heart, passion and love of music is reflected in the free private piano instruction to young talented pianist who cannot afford the high cost of private lessons. In addition to his personal accomplishments, Mark’s extensive musical career has him working and performing with with such Jazz greats as Roy Ayers, Ron Carter, Ronnie Laws, Hugh Masekela, Bobbie Humphrey, Dave Valentine, Wayne Henderson and Tap-Dancer Savion Glover; R&B Artist Erika Badu, Maysa, Bilal, Jocelyn Brown and DJ Pete Rock

Gabriele Bulfon

Born: May 5, 1970

Started classical piano training at 7, then later moved my interests into modern Jazz and Fusion, taking private lessons from various jazz masters, expecially Alan Pasqua, Otmaro Ruiz and Massimo Colombo.

I compose music of my own, with no specific genre in mind.

My latest official project is Quantum Mechanics, featuring Walter Calloni, Stefano Bagnoli, Andrea Bruzzone and Franco Avalli.
It's available both in streaming, digital and CD format.

Alexi Tuomarila

Alexi Tuomarila studied classical piano at the Espoo Music Institute from an early age. The record collection of his father led to him being bitten by the jazz bug. Consequently, after completing senior secondary school he went on to study at the Pop-Jazz Conservatory in Oulunkylä, but only for a year. While visiting his parents, who live in Belgium, Alexi applied and was accepted for the Royal Conservatory in Brussels. ”I never looked back. I graduated with a Master of Music degree in 1999. The school in Brussels is a small but international place with a high level of teaching. For example, my piano teacher, Diederik Wissels, who records for Verve in France, sparked a new enthusiasm for jazz in me

Benjamin Jonas Schatz

Born: July 6, 1981

Benjamin Schatz started playing the violin at the age of four and the piano at the age of six. After studying classical piano he became a student (jazz piano) of Richie Beirach at the Musikhochschule Leipzig where he graduated in 2008. The same year, he moved to Vienna/Austria. Competitions: • 1. Prize "International Music Competitions of the Val Tidone" in Pianello/Italy (2000) • 2. Prize "Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb Barthelt" in Ingolstadt (2001) • Winner "Concerto Competition California State University Long Beach/USA" (2004) • Winner of a complete CD recording in 2009 at the "International Jazzmeeting Generations 2008" in Frauenfeld/Switzerland - Production for the Suisse Radio DRS 2 (2008) • CD was chosen (out of 50 recordings) for the "JazzThing- Next Generation" series by JazzThing/Double Moon Records (2010)

Paula Shocron

Born: March 17, 1980

Pianist, composer, performer and educator, born in Rosario, and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was trained as a classical pianist, from the age of 5, and later studied Composition at Escuela de Música de la Universidad de Rosario (National University). Her musical activity was always focused on improvisation, going deeply in jazz tradition at first, and then opening her language to a more personal (free) music, even extending to other artistic disciplines, (dance, theatre, poetry, etc). Today she has more than 20 records as a leader or co-leader. The most popular "Tensegridad" with SLD Trio, (Germán Lamonega on bass and Pablo Díaz on drums), was released on the well-known Swiss label hatOLOGY and had excellent international reviews

Fabrice Sotton

Born: August 21, 1974

Jazz pianist and composer.