Results for "piano"

Agus Hardiman

Born: August 28, 1968

Jazz lover from Indonesia & soon to be jazz musician :)

Tomer Bar

Born: October 10, 1994

Pianist/composer Tomer Bar was born in Israel on October10th 1994. At three years old, he started to play the drums inhis father's recording studio. He started playing pop songs atage seven and at eight he started playing the piano. Tomermet Ittai Rosenbaom, (a well known pianist and piano andmusic teacher), which paved the way towards Jazz music.

Since then, he has been performing and writing music, provingthat the soul is deep within us and the human experience ispart of all of us even at early age. Tomer is a pianist, acomposer and at his age already a hopeless romantic,affected by films and Hebrew poetry.

Matthew Bourne

Born: October 6, 1977

Matthew Bourne is a recipient of numerous awards and accolades, and possesses an inventive and unique artistic approach for bringing infirm pianos back to life in Songs From A Lost Piano, collaborating with classical musicians of the London Sinfonietta in Written/Unwritten, the acclaimed solo piano albums, Montauk Variations, Isotach, and Désinances; and reinterpretations of Amon Tobin’s work for Ninja Tune. Other projects include Radioland; a live reworking of Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity album (in collaboration with Franck Vigroux & Antoine Schmitt), solo synthesiser album moogmemory; and Nightports w/Matthew Bourne

David Austin Grey

Born: June 21, 1983

David Austin Grey is a UK based pianist, composer and educator. Having studied music at The University of Birmingham and Birmingham Conservatoire David had the opportunity to study which such musicians as Hans Koller, Liam Noble & Mike Williams. Currently he is working with his own band [Greyish Quartet] and freelancing throughout the UK. Over the last few years David has worked with a number of well respected musicians including Soweto Kinch, Martin Speake, Gemma Weekes, Chima Anya, Patsy Fuller , Musa Okwonga and New York based artists ‘ iLLspoKinN‘ and ‘Why G?’. He also has a strong desire to continue to collaborate with a wide variety of artists from around the globe

Hiroe Sekine

A talented musician, a gifted jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Hiroe Sekine presents jazz standards and her compositions using her very original voices and colors—modern and fresh, yet classic. She has been writing for and performing in numerous concerts and other events for nearly 20 years both in Japan and the U.S. Being a dedicated and truly professional musician, her energy and stage presence at her live concerts have proved magnetic to many audiences. A native of Japan, Hiroe started playing at the age of four, imitating her mother playing Japanese folk songs on a pedal organ. Eventually changing to piano a year later, she began learning classical piano but simply reading music and basically playing what other people wrote was not for her

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