Results for "piano"

Zack Cross

Born: December 12, 1987

Zack graduated in 2010 with a Bachelors of Music degree in Piano Performance from the prestigious Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. At IU, Zack worked closely with international performing artist Luke Gillespie - jazz piano performance, Brent Wallarab - Jazz Ensemble director, and Pulitzer Prize winner David Baker - Jazz Studies department chair. Zack started playing piano at age 7, taking his first classes at the Levine Music School in Washington D.C. At age 8, he switched to private lessons with a veteran pianist named Patricia Houston. His first exposure to jazz came in Middle School, when he joined the Levine School jazz band

Schnarwiler

Born: May 16, 1957

Jazz student since 2005 ... till the end

Senri Oe

Born: September 6, 1960

Matthew Fries

Born: September 24, 1968

Matthew Fries is a joyful voice on the piano with a unique and recognizable style that is authentically rooted in the tradition of the classic jazz pianists, while still looking forward to the future of the music and the instrument.

As a composer and leader he has performed his own music extensively, recording ten albums of mostly original compositions. His music has been described as playful and hopeful, introspective, full of joy and wonderment, and awash with tonal colors. But it is his deeply swinging piano style and collaborative spirit that have also made him an in-demand sideman for both instrumentalists and vocalists. He has toured worldwide, appears on scores of recordings, and his work has been described as “the best jazz accompaniment I’ve seen in a cabaret in years” (The New York Times), and “the crispest rhythm section imaginable” (The London Times).

Julia Goryuchkina

Born: June 20, 1966

Julia attended New England Conservatory of Music in the 1990s where she was an enthusiastic follower of a celebrated pianist Ran Blake and his “Third Stream” philosophy (now known as Contemporary Improvisation). After intensive private studies with Mr. Blake, Julia went on studying jazz piano and film music composition at the Berklee College of Music. Among her mentors there, she names pianist Ray Santisi, saxophonist Fred Lipsius, and film composer Michael Rendish as most influential in her development as an artist and composer. After graduating from Berklee with Bachelors in Film Scoring, Ms. Goryuchkina lived and worked in South America

Lars Fiil

Born: February 17, 1986

Lars Fiil is a Danish pianist and composer currently residing in Copenhagen, Denmark.

He released his first album as a leader in 2011, when the album Lars Fiil Quartet “Reconsideration” came out. It received great reviews and was nominated for a Danish Music Award. Lars Fiil Quartet also won the prestigious competition Young Jazz in 2010.

Since then he has released 7 albums in his own name. The latest, New Ground (2024), blends acoustic soundscapes with ambient electronic textures, creating a sound that simultaneously points forward and backward in time, offering a fresh take on modern Nordic jazz. 

Chris Forbes

1.What brought you to music? I was interested in music pretty young according to my mother. She said I always seemed to gravitate towards the musical instrument toys at the expense of most of the others. My earliest musical memories revolve around the piano that we found in the parsonage at my Dad's third church posting. It was a South African made Steinway and I sat at it for hours playing clusters and the most dissonant things possible. I remember being really interested in the clash of overtones that low clusters made. I think that even then I had a real kinship with dissonant music. After about a year and a half my parents got me piano lessons

Hiromu Aoki

Born: December 17, 1953

Aoki-san is originally from Osaka, Japan. He is one of Tokyo's most sought-after accompanists for vocalists. His sensitivity, timing, and rhythmic swing are hard to beat. Versatile, he plays original music, Jazz Standards, Blues, Japanese Music, all with his signature Jazz-Blues-Swinging style. I have worked with Aoki-san in Tokyo, for 20 years! As a pianist, he swings hard, is innovative; his musicality both supports and inspires fantastic performances, of all co-members of a gig. He is a long time friend and valued fellow musician. -Pamela MacCarthy

Timothy Parton

Born: January 11, 1970

Geraldine Tyrance

Geraldine is the dedicated wife of Patrick; they are the proud parents of two, Chinita and Patrick, Jr. and the blessed grandparents of four beautiful grandchildren. Patrick, Jr. is a previous Husker football player and was inducted into the Nebraska and the Millard Hall of Fame; he was also recently inducted into the Academic All-American Hall of Fame. Chinita has a very successful career in the banking industry where she started from the ground level and has worked her way up into upper level management. At the age of five, Geraldine began studying private piano; instead of playing outside, she loved to practice the piano