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Bill Stevens - Piano

Bill is an active jazz pianist in the North Carolina area. He was the house pianist at The Know Bookstore and Restaurant in Durham NC from April of 2008 through March of 2010. He also leads a trio with musicians Weldon Kollock (trombone) and Chip Newton (guitar), performing regularly at The Irregardless Cafe in Raleigh, The Land's End Clubhouse in Emerald Isle, and at numerous private parties. "In today's world, where recordings and the Internet have made outstanding music commonplace, we seek to invite listeners into a kind of experience they could only have with live improvisation. We do this by emphasizing spontaneous interaction amongst performers and cultivating deep emotional attunement with the listening audience." Since December of 2008, the Bill Stevens Trio has been collaborating with artist Mike Stevens, exploring the synergy of combining improvised music with live painting. Bill was Artist in Residence at The Dublin School in Dublin New Hampshire, April - May of 2010, teaching classes in Walden School Musicianship and giving a concert with his trio

Bryan Nichols

Born: 1979

Bryan Nichols is a Minneapolis-based pianist and composer, working primarily in jazz and instrumental music. He returned to the Twin Cities in 2005 after four busy years in Chicago where he played with jazz heavyweights like Corey Wilkes, Nicole Mitchell, Ernest Dawkins, Von Freeman and Hamid Drake. Since returning to Minneapolis, he leads and composes for his own trio, his quartet/quintet and his large group, We Are Many. An in-demand freelancer, he also plays regularly with Gang Font, Kelly Rossum Quartet, James Buckley Trio, Zacc Harris Quartet and Lambeau Magic. He teaches jazz piano at MacPhail Center for Music and University of Wisconsin �" Eau Claire.             Bryan was recently award a 2010 McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians, a prestigious and competitive award for Minnesota musicians

Dan Berg

After graduating from Hampshire College, Philly native Dan Berg now lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. His music is unique, drawing from many different sources and styles. He says he tries his best to strike a balance between groove and art--between the familiar and the esoteric. His current band, The Gestalt, covers a lot of genres featuring his own originals and covers and the standards that he has revamped. The word "gestalt" means something that is greater than all of its parts. In the music you may find certain rhythms or other elements that are familiar but the overall picture is something original

Yayoi Ikawa

Pianist and composer Yayoi Ikawa, originally from Tokyo, Japan, has been living and working in New York City for a decade. Her trio and quartet was featured on a historic nation- wide Japanese radio program Session 2008 as well as on the leading Internet radio station jjazz.net.

Yayoi expressed her sincere feeling for her roots in Japan and Asia by integrating Japanese Folk melodies into her liberating performance style on her pieces “Motherland” and “Folk Song.”

Yayoi also dedicated the composition “Peace Requiem” to a Japanese journalist killed in Myanmar 2007 and “Dear Asia” to the tragic earthquake happened in Sumatera 2004.

Guy Vaingarten

Born: February 4, 1985

Pianist, Composer & Music Producer

Brad Whiteley

Born: March 25, 1980

Brad Whiteley is a New York City based pianist, organist, and keyboardist. His debut jazz album “Pathless Land” was recently released on Destiny Records to rave reviews including 4 stars and selection as an editor’s pick in Downbeat magazine. Brad has performed or recorded with numerous people in the pop and jazz worlds. He has been a member of Regina Spektor’s band for the past 4 years, which have included numerous television appearances (Letterman, Colbert, Leno, Fallon, etc.) and numerous world tours (Royal Albert Hall, The Greek Theater, Sydney Opera House, etc.). He has recently worked with David Byrne developing his new musical as synth programmer and conductor

L. Brian Maxwell

Born: September 5, 1955

With over 35 years of experience in performance, writing, arranging, recording, engineering and production management, his musical influences cover a wide spectrum, from Gershwin and Kern to Steely Dan. Also known as “Woody”, he has performed with bands and artists such as: Rob Rettberg (The Other Studio), Harvey Seigel Jazz Ensemble, Neville Barnes (Mel Thorme), “6710”...and the list goes on and on. “I have had the good fortune of playing alongside many incredible musicians. I have continued to learn and (in doing so) have become a better player”.

George Fogel

George Fogel was born in London and through exposure to jazz at an early age, when 16 his quartet won the music for youth competition at the QEH and went on to play at the RAH with a prize for composition. He attended Junior Guildhall School of Music from 14 under the wing of Martin Hathaway and went on to get a scholarship to study there for a B(mus) in 2001. He took a year from the course to study in Berklee College of music under Lazlo Gardony and then returned to GSMD where he graduated in 2006 with a first class honours degree. Throughout this period an omnivorous musical diet led him to work in both traditional jazz environments (regular appearances at venues such as The Vortex, Pizza Express, Ronnie Scotts and 606 to name a few) with members of London’s F-IRE and Loop collectives, and rock/dance clubs Cargo, the Spitz, 333 with Matt Calvert (now Three Trapped Tigers) , as well as the Duke Ellington Festival (US), and Brecon Jazz Festival.In these settings he has worked alongside such well known names as George Garzone, Phil Robson, Soweto Kinch, and Sebastien Rochford. He has since been working with MOBO Award winning ensemble ‘Empirical’, and has his own quartet ‘Dice Factory’ alongside Tom Challenger as well as a five keyboard ensemble with Tom Rogerson (Three Trapped Tigers) and Mercury Nominee Kit Downs. He is also active as an educator, giving workshops at GSMD and RAC, he is currently artist in residance with Empirical at Trinity College of music through 2011. A subsidiary interest in writing music for animation and film lead him to recently embark in an MA in Sound Art practice at LCC.

Chuck Lamb

Chuck Lamb, as a pianist and composer, has been with the Brubeck Brothers Quartet for 14 years and has performed with the Quartet and/or his own groups at numerous renowned venues around the world, including Jazz At Lincoln Center, Newport Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Detroit Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Hollywood Bowl, Blue Note (Tokyo), Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival, Rochester Jazz Festival, Syracuse Jazz Festival, Yoshi’s, Jazz Standard, and more. Earlier in his career, Chuck co-founded the jazz fusion group, “Dry Jack,” which Rolling Stone History of Music cited as one of the premiere, cutting edge fusion bands of the electric jazz movement

Johannes Wallmann

Born: September 9, 1974

Johannes Wallmann’s fourth album as a leader features his NYC-based Brasstet, an innovative ensemble comprised of three brass (Ralph Alessi, trumpet; Josh Roseman, trombone; and Marcus Rojas, tuba) together with a rhythm section of bassist Sean Conly, drummer Fred Kennedy, and Wallmann on piano (Wallmann’s working piano trio for much of the past decade). The group’s instrumentation is nimble enough to allow for highly interactive ensemble play (such as the New Orleans-inspired collective improvisation of “The Sweet Minute”), yet rich enough in timbre to suggest a much larger brass choir (“Looms in the Mist”).