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Randy Porter

Jazz pianist Randy Porter has a refined understanding of improvisation and the spontaneous communication between musicians. As a Steinway Artist, Randy Porter draws from a rich palette of sonorities found within his imagination and the depths of the piano. Lynn Darroch of The Oregonian states, “Porter has built a reputation as a musician’s musician, a knowledgeable, inventive, and sophisticated player with a remarkable sense of time and gorgeous keyboard facility…” Randy Porter has performed with many jazz greats, including Freddy Hubbard, Art Farmer, and Benny Golson. He has also performed with the Charles McPherson Quartet throughout the US and in France, Italy, Greece, and China

Harrison Steingueldoir

Born: May 13, 1995

Born in Knokke-Heist in 1995, Harrison Steingueldoir grew up with music. His father played guitar and his mother started piano when he was 6 years old. Hearing the sound of the piano, made him want to play just like her. This encouraged him to go to an art school of music. He took classical piano lessons at deKunstAcademie in Knokke when he was 8 years old. After 4 years of classical training, he had the option choosing between Jazz and/or Classical pianolessons. He took both, but after 1 extra year of classical music, he stopped. Today he is doing jazz piano for 4 years now. Harrison takes jazz piano lessons with Werner Meert and theory lessons with Janos Bruneel

Michael Kanan

Michael Kanan hails from Boston, Massachusetts where he first began to play the piano at age 7. He started improvising at the keyboard early on, and by age 10 he was listening to jazz. His first instructor was pianist Harvey Diamond, a student of jazz innovator Lennie Tristano. During his years at Boston College, Michael had the opportunity to perform with several jazz greats including Tal Farlow, Lee Konitz, Al Cohn, and Alan Dawson. After graduating college and doing some freelance work around Boston, he moved to New York in 1991 to study with another Tristano student, the pianist Sal Mosca. He established himself in New York, playing and recording with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, and Jorge Rossy, among others

Lucas Ferrari

Born: October 11, 1991

Born October 11th, 1991 in Buenos Aires. He started studying piano in 2003 under Celestina Stranieri. Soon after that, he started listening to Oscar Peterson, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, Count Basie and other jazz greats. Under the direction of Pepe Listorti, he started playing at the Club de Jóvenes de Liniers. During 2008 and 2009 he was the house pianist for the Cerveza Club jam sessions. Also since 2009 he often plays at the Jazz Club Olivos, and more recently at Jazz Club Cabildo Norte and Jazz Club Campana. During 2011 and 2012 he managed weekly with friends Willy Pagiatis and Fernando Montardit "Night Train Jam Session". Since 2013 he manages the Saturday night jam sessions at Notorious

Chihiro Yamanaka

Chihiro Yamanaka, Universal Music/Blue Note recording artist, is one of the most exciting jazz pianists and composers of her generation, and the leader of the Chihiro Yamanaka Trio. The new Chihiro Yamanaka CD, Somethin' Blue, is her Blue Note Records debut. Chihiro has been a Universal Music/Verve recording artist since 2005, the same year in which she was named Swing Journal’s “Best New Artist." On the occasion of Universal's recent acquisition of Blue Note Records – in time for Blue Note’s 75th anniversary – Chihiro made the move to Blue Note. As a newly minted Blue Note artist, she has been a big part of the 75th anniversary celebrations, including a concert at the Blue Note Tokyo in which she performed with all-stars including bassist Ron Carter. Chihiro, who most often performs and records in trio format, assembled a sextet for the Somethin' Blue sessions and created a new compositional universe that places this 2014 album in the lineage of classic Blue Note recordings

Aaron Diehl

Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "The most promising discovery that [Wynton] Marsalis has made since Eric Reed," Aaron Diehl's distinctive interpretations of the music of Scott Joplin, "Jelly Roll" Morton, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, and other masters pay homage to the tradition while establishing his own original voice. Mr. Diehl has performed with the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Hank Jones, Wycliffe Gordon, Wessell Anderson, Benny Golson, Loren Schoenberg, and has been featured on Marian McPartland's NPR radio show "Piano Jazz." His international touring includes major European jazz festivals as well as performances in South America and Asia

Kirk Reese

Mr. Reese began his formal musical training at the age of five. He has studied with pianists Cedar Walton and former John Cage protege Ron Thomas, jazz guitarists and theorists Pat Martino and Steve Giordano. He attended Elizabethtown College and Global University/Berean School of the Bible. Mr. Reese has served on the faculty at Elizabethtown College and has performed clinics and seminars at Swarthmore College, Albright College, Gettysburg,York, and Elizabethtown Colleges to name a few. His involvement in Arts in Education earned him national recognition in 1996, through the Leonard Bernstein Center, as an innovater in arts infusion education

Nate Trier

Born: February 28, 1977

Who would drop out of music school to spend more time making music? Nate Trier, for one

Rhinoceri Trio

Born: 1978

The Rhinoceri trio, named for the most ponderous and terrifying beast of the primeval forest, both ponders and terrifies. Firmly rooted in the jazz tradition, the group's repertoire spans and blends a tapestry of influences from Ellington's jungle jazz, Eastern European folk music, Ornette Coleman, Bach, Wagner and minimalism.  Given the history of the its members, the Rhinoceri Trio's wide musical pallet is hardly surprising. Cooney and Mervine are both members of West Philadelphia Orchestra, a balkan brass band. Cooney and Coyle play bluegrass together in Noggin Hill (with Cooney on banjo) and have collaborated on several film scores

Adam Fairhall

Born: June 8, 1976

Raised in Cornwall, Adam began, like many pianists, by practising boogie and blues with friends during school lunchtimes. He received piano lessons covering jazz harmony and repertoire in his teens, before moving north to study Contemporary Arts at MMU Cheshire, where he received a first class honours degree and an MA with distinction. Having decided towards the end of his undergraduate studies to devote his time to the study of jazz, Adam followed his studies at MMU with Master’s study at Leeds College of Music, receiving a MMus in Jazz Studies (Performance) in 2005. While at Leeds he studied with pianist Mark Donlon and also took lessons with pianist Matthew Bourne