Results for "piano"

Jenna McSwain

Born: February 16, 1987

Music is the vehicle that’s been driving Jenna McSwain’s whole life. It picked her up before she could even talk and drove her at the age of four to get out from behind the pew of her Charleston church and share her songs with the congregation. It drove her to lead her three sisters to perform spirituals throughout the South Carolina lowcountry and to study hard. By the time she was attending high school at the Charleston County School of the Arts, she was playing piano and singing professionally in esteemed Charleston music venues. And the music kept driving – a trusty, yet relentless old carriage with a strong engine and faulty brakes

Jay Smith Group

Born: October 14, 1983

Called a "fixture in the Central Valley" (NPR), Jay Smith has had a wide variety of talent flow through his band. From jazz fusion to pop, the band has channeled a wide spectrum of musical genres to stay working and relevant. He is an Alum of California State University Bakersfield and Fresno City College where he earned his Bachelors of Arts and Associates of Arts Degree. He has opened up for groups and musicians as Carl Saunders, Poncho Sanchez, Jeff Coffin, Allan Holdsworth, Malo, Ozomatli, Clayton Cameron, and worked with Kelulu, Mento Buru, The Fresno Philharmonic, Andre Bush, Mike Dana, Velorio, and Patrick Contreras to name a few. His current projects include Mento Buru which was voted best band of 2018 by Bakersfield Magazine and The Jay Smith Trio/Group which features a variety of players including Cesareo Garasa, Paul Perez, Jay Jay Hicks, Fernando Montoya, Steve Eisen, and Patrick Contreras to name a few. The band's first album, Unashamed Portrayal, (available on iTunes and 30 other retailers) features Grammy Nominated Guitarist Andre Bush, Jay Jay Hicks, Saxophonist Chris Nguyen, trombonist Joe Vazquez, trumpeter Mark Manda, Fernando Montoya on acoustic and electric bass, Jonathan Weinmann on drums, and Jorge Nunzio Urbina on percussion

Peter Hum

Born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, Peter is a mainstay of the city's jazz community. He has just released his debut recording, A Boy's Journey, thanks to a grant from the City of Ottawa. Previously, his compositions and performances at the Montreal and Ottawa International Jazz Festivals have been broadcast by the CBC and Radio-Canada.

Since the mid-1990s, the self-taught pianist has led or co-led groups that have included musicians Rob Frayne, John Geggie, Petr Cancura, Nathan Cepelinski, Vince Rimbach, Kenji Omae, Mike Essoudry, Nick Fraser and Justin Haynes.

In Ottawa, he has accompanied visiting jazz musicians including Pat LaBarbera, Mike Rud, Andre Leroux, Kelly Jefferson and Johnny Scott.

In Montreal during the last half of the 1980s, Peter performed weekly at the first incarnation of the city's famed Upstairs jazz club

Katya Sourikova

Born: July 18

Katya was raised in St Petersburg and London. Now based in Berlin, her musical and cultural background has always been diverse. After training as a classical pianist at the prestigious Guildhall School and then the Royal College of Music, she switched to Jazz and found her musical voice both as a composer and improviser. Katya made her first recordings in North America with Ivan Bamford and Remi-Jean leBlanc. In 2005, the trio performed at the Baku International Jazz Festival alongside heavyweights such as Joe Zawinul and Greg Osby. At the Banff Jazz and Creative Music Workshop in 2006, Katya’s mentors Dave Douglas and Marilyn Crispell helped her focus her creative energies

Morten Ravn Hansen

Born: March 5, 1976

My name is Morten Ravn Hansen, a graduate from the Carl Nielsen Academy in Odense, Denmark. I have extensive training and experience in teaching piano, transcribing and composing jazz piano music. For many years, transcribing has been a part of my specific training to better understand each musical moment over time and how it relates to the whole of a completed work. This process has been invaluable to my personal study and accumulated benefit. This method of transcribing, studying and playing various sources has been the basic foundation for understanding melodic development, chord progression changes, key modulations and signature harmonics in detail.

Ed Santelices

Born: April 18, 1954

Born in the highlands of northern Philippines, Ed's awareness in music could have been due to hearing a lot of his mother's classic piano-playing as well as his father's virtuoso guitar strumming all through his early childhood years. Soon enough at the age of 7 he began semi-formal training on the piano but only during school breaks, which was the time allowed him. Nevertheless, he would tinker the keys of his mother's upright piano at home almost everyday until he would develop the "ouido" to be able to play whatever music he heard on the radio. What occurred next was his interest in joining a band in high school and that was during the height of "Beatlemania", which unfortunately featured electric guitar players more than keyboard players

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John Cervantes

John Cervantes is a pianist & composer based in London. He has led his own groups at Vortex Jazz Club, Manchester Jazz Festival, Derry Jazz Festival, N. Ireland, Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho, Charlie Wrights International, and Matt&Phreds Club, among many others. As a band member for other musicians he has performed at festivals and venues across Europe such as London Jazz Festival and Openair St Gallen Festival, Switzerland. Recently he premiered "exciting new music" (Helen Mayhew, Jazz FM) that he composed for his ensemble, featuring special guest Stan Sulzmann, at The Forge in Camden. He has played live and been interviewed on BBC Radio Foyle, BBC Radio Ulster and Ocean FM as part of an "unmissable" (Belfast Telegraph) string of dates with his piano trio in Ireland

Vadim Klokov Trio

Son of a musician, Vadim has started studying the piano and the bassoon when he was only 8 years old, entering later in the secondary school of music from the State Conservatory of Moscow, where he was a student of V.P.Gorbatchov. In 1985, he started the Third grade at the Tchaikovsky conservatory, in the class of R.P. Tyerokhin.For four years he was a soloist of the Camer-Colegi, being part of several tours around Russia, and also recording a number of CDs. He was a member of the symphonic orchestra of Moscow, conducted by Eugeny Svetlanov, having recorded the cycle of Mahler’s Symphonies. He participated in several music festivals in the city of Evian, France, all of them under the regency of the great conductor M

Theo Hill

Born: May 22, 1982

Hailed by the New York Times as "a vital young pianist at play in New York's straight-ahead tradition" Theo Hill is emerging as a fresh new voice in jazz piano. Born in Albany, New York, he began to study classical piano with Mary Moran at the age of five. He gravitated toward jazz studying piano at age twelve with Lee Shaw. By age sixteen, he was performing at clubs in the tri-city area and made his first New York City appearance sitting in at Smalls Jazz Club. He was accepted into the Jazz Conservatory at SUNY Purchase where he studied jazz piano with Charles Blenzig and Hal Galper. After graduating cum laude in 2004 he moved to New York City to immerse himself in the vibrant jazz culture