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Bram Weijters

Born: July 15, 1980

Eight years old, Bram started music courses at the music school in his birth town, attending piano and percussion classes. As a teenager he played in several rockbands. After completing secondary education, he was admitted to the Antwerp Conservatory. Amongst his teachers were Erik Vermeulen and Christoph Erbstösser. After graduating for jazz piano in Antwerp he went to the Brussels Conservatory, where he graduated in 2005 for jazzcompostion and arranging. Bram took lessons and attended masterclasses a.o. from Kenny Werner, Anthony Braxton, Gary Peacock, Mark Turner, Dave Liebman, Bill Carrotters, Bert Joris, … Bram participated in a wide range of projects. He's mainly involved in jazz formations but doesn't limit himself to jazz. He performed as well with people from the hip hopscene like as with rockgroups. Currently Bram plays with amongst others: Chad McCullough- Bram Weijters, Koen Nys Quintet, Hamster Axis of the one- click Panther,... He also composes and writes arrangements for some of these bands.

Danny Fox

Pianist Danny Fox was born in New York City where he became immersed in the jazz scene from an early age. In high school, Danny was selected as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts and went on to attend Harvard University during which time he became active in the Boston music scene. He formed the Danny Fox Trio in 2008 as a vehicle for his original compositions and since then the working group has performed steadily around NYC and the US, releasing the critically acclaimed albums The One Constant (Songlines) and Wide Eyed (Hot Cup).

Called a “pianist of diverse accomplishment” (NY Times), Danny has established himself as a versatile musician active in a wide variety of settings, co-founding the New Orleans rock and roll group Tubby, playing around the fertile Brooklyn roots and bluegrass scene, performing on Broadway, and collaborating with the cutting edge video artist Meghan Allynn Johnson

Martyn Croston

Born: August 15, 1981

Martyn Croston is currently a jazz/wedding pianist and a piano/music teacher He has performed in the UK, Canada, Russia, Spain and the US, both as a solo pianist and with numerous ensembles at weddings, parties and other events Martyn has played with some notable musicians, including Toby Smith (Jamiroquai) and Dave Richmond (Manfred Mann). After Martyn completed his Bachelors in Music at the University of Bristol, he moved to Moscow, performing regularly throughout the city as a solo pianist and with numerous ensembles, including a performance with the Ukranian guitarist Roman Miroshnichenko. In 2007, he received a scholarship to study a Masters at Western Michigan University, where he received lessons from Dr Stephen Zegree and Tad Weed. Martyn was the pianist for the vocal jazz group Gold Company, performing at the International Association for Jazz Education in Toronto with Darmon Meader from New York Voices

Alex Minasian

Born: July 11, 1984

Alex Minasian is an American jazz pianist, composer, educator, and impresario based in New York City. He has served as pianist and musical director for iconic jazz vocalists, Little Jimmy Scott and Mark Murphy. Minasian grew up in Hudson, New Hampshire, and began playing the piano at the age of 4. His first professional gigs, at the age of 14, consisted of backing various Doo-Wop groups, such as, the Jive Five. Inspired by pianists Hank Jones and Erroll Garner, Minasian took up studying improvisation with Boston-area guru, Miles Donahue. He then attended New York University, studying with pianists Don Friedman and Jean Michel Pilc

Jason Reolon

Born: November 2, 1976

www.jasonreolon.com Jason Reolon, celebrated South African-born jazz pianist and composer, has a solid reputation as one of the country’s finest talents. In all his musical undertakings, Reolon never fails to move, inspire and challenge audiences with his fresh and dynamic approach to his art. Complex, groovy, soulful, his music transcends the boundaries of jazz to reach new and exciting realms in the world of sound. As the son of jazz songbird, Josie Gien and the South African drumming legend Bobby Gien, who performed with the famous Ronnie Scott Trio for half a decade, Reolon’s world has always been centered around music

Anthony Pocetti

Born: June 3, 1989

nthony Pocetti was born on June 3, 1989. He grew up in Hamilton, New Jersey and graduated Steinert High School in 2007. Anthony graduated from New York University and lives in New York City with a Bachelor of Music degree. Anthony was a jazz studies (piano performance) major and a computer applications minor. Anthony is currently enrolled at in Manhattan School of Music's master's program for jazz piano performance. He studies with Ted Rosenthal. Anthony has been playing piano since he was five years old. He learned to play through the Suzuki method, taking lessons at Westminister Conservatory Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. In high school, Anthony switched to studying jazz with pianist/composer Jim Ridl

Xan Campos

Born: September 30, 1987

Born in 1987 in Cangas, Pontevedra (Galiza), he studied at the Seminario Permanente de Jazz de Pontevedra and Musikene. He has played and recorded with musicians such as Logan Richardson, Marcus Strickland, Lage Lund, Walter Smith III, Ambrose Akinmusire, Marcus Gilmore, Matt Brewer and Perico Sambeat.

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Tom McClung

TOM McCLUNG BIOGRAPHY Tom McClung was born in 1957 in New York into a family for which the joy of making music was important everyday. His mother's ukulele and singing and his father's piano played the popular songs of Tin-Pan Alley and Broadway musicals. Even before he started lessons, Tom was exploring the sonorities and mysteries of their old upright piano, picking out tunes by ear and making up his own melodies. His family then moved to Amherst, Massachusetts, and at the age of six, Tom started formal lessons which introduced him to the world of Bach, Bartok, sharps, flats and rests. By the time he was in high school, he was giving classical piano recitals, playing Scott Joplin rags, composing and playing in the jazz workshop, singing in the chorale, playing recorder in the Collegium Musicum (Renaissance music), playing trumpet and baritone horn in the concert band, and playing rock'n'roll for school dances. He continued his music studies at Marlboro College with professors Blanche Honegger Moyse and Nigel Coxe, and then at the University of Massachusetts with Max Roach and Archie Shepp

Tony Rosales

Born: August 2, 1965

Composer and jazz pianist, Tony Rosales, grew up in Long Island, New York. Influenced by some of the great jazz pianists of the day, and possessed by Oscar Peterson's sound, he began to make a name for himself, developing his own stayle as a musical savant. As a teenager and then as young man he performed as a solo pianist and was a crowd pleaser at the best restaurants in the greater New York Metropolitan Area. In 1995, Mr. Rosales moved to the Grand Strand district of South Carolina where he continued to cultivate his sound and where he honed his talent. In 1983 and 1984, he opened for The Dave Brubeck Quartet at the Jazz Festival in Oyster Bay, New York