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James Lent

Pianist and Keyboardist James Lent received the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Performance from Yale University, and is experienced in performing jazz, rhythm and blues, pop, broadway, classical, and dueling pianos or any of your other favorite selections for any occasion. He is currently on the staff at UCLA as a collaborative pianist for the music department. He frequently performs throughout Southern California, and recently in venues including LA Live, the Ritz Carlton Hotel, the Studio City Hilton Hotel, and Hollywood's Boulevard 3. On Friday nights he regularly performs at the oldest piano bar and caberet in Los Angeles which is located just off Sunset Blvd

Maye Azcuy

Born: September 13, 1979

Maye Azcuy es cantante, compositora y pianista. Su jazz es un trabajo de autor muy delicado y cálido. Desde muy pequeña dio sus primeros pasos en la música en su ciudad natal, Pinar del R�-o (Cuba). A los catorce años marchó a la capital para completar sus estudios en la Escuela Nacional de Música (ENA) y en el Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), donde obtuvo la licenciatura suma cum laude en Musicolog�-a en 2003. Unos años donde acumula vivencias en la época más convulsa de la isla. A su formación académica Maye suma una experiencia personal y profesional muy rica. Su voz, de un particular timbre y generoso registro grave, la formó como contralto en las principales agrupaciones corales de su pa�-s, participando en reconocidos concursos y festivales de Latinoamérica y Europa. Organizadora durante cuatro años del Festival JOJAZZ que, apadrinado por el maestro Chucho Valdés, promueve el talento joven cubano, Maye Azcuy hizo suyos los principios armónicos y el lenguaje instrumental jazz�-stico, los cuales subyacen en sus temas cualquiera sea el género que aborde

Dave Halls

Born: May 18, 1972

Dave Halls is a Sydney based jazz influenced pianist/composer/band leader who is in demand for concerts, festivals, corporate and private events. Dave is well known for his innovative original compositions. His passion for writing fresh sounding jazz influenced music comes out in his performances & recordings which are musically refreshing and entertaining. He has recorded on many CDs, including his albums Burning Time and Walking Home, both featuring original compositions.

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