Results for "piano"

Fiona Joy Hawkins

Born: January 21, 1964

Australian classically trained composer, pianist and singer inspired by her Celtic heritage.  Her work crosses from Neoclassical to New Age, Celtic and Jazz.

"My wish is to open more hearts to the power of music and its ability to create change.   Now more than ever we need the connection to our past to find the pathway to our future”.

Fiona's work often highlights the beauty of this planet and how we preserve this for future generations.

Living in rural Australia (Kendall NSW), Fiona has played NY Carnegie Hall, New Orleans Jazz Museum, Sydney Opera House, Echoes/PR Radio, Grammy Museum and over 30 concert halls in China.

Jolly Jun

PIANIST & COMPOSER JOLLY JUN I was born in Seoul, Korea and have composed piano pieces since the age of four. I studied classical in my teenage years and jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston, but my music cannot be categorized as classic or jazz. I consider myself a musical pioneer ; my mission is to find my own new style of music. When people hear my music, I want it to feel like a warm, helping hand: beautiful and consolable. Something we all need sometimes.

Bill Doerrfeld

Born: April 3, 1964

Born April 3, 1964 into a musical family from Chicago, Illinois Bill Doerrfeld began playing piano at age 4. During his youth Bill earned numerous awards for his music including winning a Downbeat Magazine DB award at age 16 (the youngest person at the time to earn said award), the Jacksonville And All That Jazz Great American Jazz Piano Competition, the Yamaha National Electone Festival, a New York Youth Symphony Commission and Carnegie Hall orchestral premiere performance along with awards, honors and fellowships from ASCAP, Tanglewood, Yaddo, Banff, MacDowell Artist Colony. Delius Foundation, Fontana Arts Society and others

Vic Glazer

Born: January 28, 1947

I'm currently 65 and live and play So. Florida. I make my living as an accompanist for singers and variety acts who tour or do one-nighters in the area. I'm employed by local theatrical agents who use me and several other qualified pianists. The work is seasonal and we usually have to scuffle during the summer here. Most musicians always will have to pay "dues" at one time or another! After leaving North Texas State Univ. in 1965, I moved to L.A. where, after a short time, I started getting better and more influential gigs--both as a player and as an arranger. I took a gig conducting and arranging for Frankie Avalon in the early 70's and was lucky enouth to be noticed in that part of the business

Diane Moser

Diane Moser has been a featured performer and composer throughout the U.S. with jazz ensembles, big bands, orchestras, chamber music ensembles, dance companies, and theater companies. She earned a B.A. from Empire State College in New York and an M.M. in Jazz Piano from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Harold Danko and Jaki Byard. As a leader, Diane currently has several ensembles that express her wide diversity of musical interests. She is the musical director, pianist and contributing composer of Diane Moser’s Composers Big Band, a 17-piece big band formed for the purpose of developing and presenting new music for big band

Shrimp City Slim

Born: October 10, 1953

Born and raised in Chicago but a longtime resident of Charleston, South Carolina, Shrimp City Slim (aka Gary Erwin) is a pianist/vocalist/composer & promoter who performs 200+ shows a year throughout the Southeast USA and overseas. His specialty is "world piano blues", a blend of classic Chicago and New Orleans piano blues with various other musical flavors absorbed during s lifetime of travel. He has released fourteen CDs of original material and also hosts a weekly blues radio program on WCOO 105.5 FM in Charleston. SCS organizes numerous annual evetns including the Carolina Downhome Blues Festival, Blues by the Sea, Greenwood Blues Cruise, and others

Will Butterworth

Will Butterworth was born in Edinburgh, his father is a classical violinist and Will grew up playing classical music on the cello and improvising on the piano. In 2000 he began to play jazz professionally in Scotland, and in 2004 he moved to London. He studied harmony with Dominic Spencer in Edinburgh, and then later with Steve Lodder in London. Will has worked with many of Britain's finest musicians including Asaf Sirkis, Andy Shepherd, Steve Lodder, Martin Speake, Julian Siegal, Bill Bruford, and Dylan Howe. In 2010 he formed the Stravinsky Duo with Dylan Howe, which reinterpreted the works of Stravinsky and their album 'The Rite of SPring part 1' achieved great critical acclaim. In September 2017 Will will release his 4th album as leader.

Marko Churnchetz

Born: May 15, 1986

Marko Churnchetz is one of Slovenia's most heralded contemporary musicians and renowned exports, based in New York City. On the international scene he is known as a formidable young multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and producer who easily works across genres and in particular jazz, classical and popular music. Churnchetz was born May 15, 1986 in Maribor, Slovenia and by the age of age six his musical path began by studying classical music on accordion and then piano at the age of ten. A prodigious talent, by his teens he was a multiple award-winner in both national and international competitions, and he earned a classical piano degree at the Conservatory of Music and Ballet Maribor, Slovenia in 2005 as well as jazz piano degree at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria in 2009 where he graduated with honors. He has released four albums as a leader: Signature and Moral Interchange (both released in 2010 on B.A.S.E.)

Darius Scott

Born: January 19, 1961

Born in Ithaca, New York, pianist/composer Darius Scott grew up in Boston and has been living in Baltimore since 1983. Both of his parents enjoyed music, especially jazz. As a toddler, they used to take him to The Jazz Workshop to hear the legends playing and inventing the style of music he would eventually learn to play as well. At one point during that time, he even sat on a piano bench next to Thelonious Monk. Darius didn’t begin trying to play piano until college. When an injury sidelined him from soccer for a season, he signed up for a “keyboard awareness” class and through a friend, discovered the ragtime piano music of Scott Joplin

Eugene Uman

Eugene Uman has performed with Sheila Jordan, Jay Clayton, Dave Stryker, George Mraz, Jerry Bergonzi, Chris Vidala, Jeff Galindo, Bobby Sanabria, Carlos Averhoff, Bobby Bradford, Jimmy Heath, Donald Byrd, Billy Pierce, Carl Grubbs, John Lockwood, Pete Yellin, Bob Gullotti, the Rod Levitt Orchestra, the Vermont Jazz Center Big Band (where he serves as musical director) and many others. His current working ensembles are the Convergence Project with cellist Eugene Friesen, trombonist Jeff Galindo, saxophonist Michael Zsoldos, bassist Stomu Takeishi and drummer Satoshi Takeishi. He is also a member of the world music ensemble As Yet Quintet, with percussionists Julian Gerstin and Todd Roach, clarinetist Anna Patton and violinist, Miamon Miller