Results for "piano"

Igor Besschastny

Born: October 9, 1957

Igor Besschastny – composer, pianist, organist and singer. Author of numerous music projects. He writes music for feature films, music shows as well as symphonic music for ballets and operas. His most known composition is music for drama "Gondlo" by N. Gumilev. He is the author of two symphonies – The Symphony No.1 c-moll “Commemorate 9/11” and The Symhony No.2 ” Russian Cross”. The Symphony No.1 c-moll “Commemorate 9/11” by Igor Besschastny was performed in USA at the opening of Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach on May 2nd, 2008

Chris Grasso

Chris Grasso is a Washington, D.C.-based jazz pianist who specializes in working with vocalists. He has performed with Gene Bertoncini, Keter Betts, Carmen Bradford, Lea DeLaria, Kenny Garrett, Allan Harris, Nicole Henry, Buck Hill, Marlon and Stephanie Jordan, Lewis Nash, Nicki Parrott, Ken Peplowski, Houston Person, Bucky Pizzarelli, Chuck Redd, Joshua Redman, Avery Sharpe, Janis Siegel, Suede, Denise Thimes, Frank Vignola, Bobby Watson, Cassandra Wilson, Matt Wilson and more. Chris has appeared at leading venues including Jazz at Lincoln Center, Birdland, the Kennedy Center, Blues Alley, Bohemian Caverns, the Iridium, and the Music Center at Strathmore, as well as festivals in the U.S. and overseas. 

Daniel Tilling

Born: July 7, 1975

I was born in 1975 and grew up in Stockholm, Sweden. Since finishing my studies at the Malmö College of Music in 2001, I have been free-lancing as a jazz musician, living in Stockholm. The bands I work with right now are Tilling-Ikiz-Kling, OP3, Stockholm Swing All Stars, Hanna Elmquist, Amanda Sedgwick, and Stockholm Jazz Orchestra. Over the years I've played a lot with such Swedish jazz artists as Rigmor Gustafsson, Miriam Aïda, Viktoria Tolstoy, Svante Thuresson and Tim Hagans & the Norrbotten Big Band.

Casey Golden

Born: January 18, 1988

Casey Golden is a forward-thinking musician based in Sydney. Described as ‘a brilliant improviser with a highly developed melodic sensibility’ (The Australian) and ‘a pianist of sheer class’ (Jazzwise), he’s been involved in a wide range of original music ranging from jazz/improvised projects to electronic, pop and film music.

Born in Sydney into a family of musicians, Golden is the grandson of internationally renowned jazz trumpeter Bob Barnard. He studied classical piano from a young age and was exposed to a wide variety of music through his mother’s vast record collection

Kyle Matsuda

Kyle Matsuda, 16, piano, will be a junior in the fall at Hawaii Preparatory Academy in his hometown of Kamuela, HI. He has studied jazz and classical piano privately for 8 years. His jazz influences include Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and many more. He has studied with Randy Porter in Portland, OR and has attended the Stanford Jazz Workshop three times. At the 2009 Stanford Jazz Residency, Kyle was selected to the top combo under the direction of Ray Drummond, which gave him the opportunity to play with some of the most outstanding young musicians in the nation. He was also selected for the 2010 Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony, a one-week full-scholarship jazz performance workshop

Reed Gratz

Born: June 30, 1950

Reed Gratz is a Professor of Music and department chair at the University of La Verne. He has taught at Washington State University, University of Miami, University of Innsbruck, Utrecht Conservatory and Leiden University in the Netherlands, and is a visiting professor of music in the history department at Claremont McKenna College. He is on the Advisory Board of the American Jazz Institute along with Mort Sahl and Lee Konitz. Reed has been awarded a jazz composition grant from the NEA; a research grant in African-American music by the NEH; two Senior Fulbright Lectureships, one at the University of Innsbruck, the other, the Walt Whitman Distinguished Chair of American Culture Studies at the Leiden University; and the Excellence in Teaching Award for undergraduate faculty at the University of La Verne

George Burton

For more than a decade, the young pianist, composer and bandleader George Burton has been on the radar of everyone who keeps up with innovations in jazz. Praised as “formidable” by NPR, and “charismatic” by The New York Times, Burton's dazzling virtuosity and breathtakingly eclectic approach to music reflect his experience in every aspect of the jazz spectrum: beginning with rigorous classical training, branching into his equally rigorous experience in the heady nightlife of the Philadelphia jazz scene, and earning him a place on the world stage with some of the most significant practitioners of bop, post-bop and beyond—from James Carter to Meshell Ndegeocello to the Sun Ra Arkestra—and has landed him on some of the most prestigious of stages with his own groups as a leader, including the Newport Jazz Festival in 2017. Burton's own work is in a category by itself: he brings not only stunning technique, but music that is complex, uniting all the dimensions of his experience, filtered through the sensibility of a Romantic composer

Anthony Dowd

Born: August 14, 1957

Born in Richmond, Va in 1957, Anthony started playing piano by ear at age six. Much of what he heard on television was figured out on the piano, but he did begin formal lessons at age 12 and studied for about five years. When he was in high school he came across his parent's big band records and that got him hooked on swing and looking for more jazz piano. A few weeks after graduating Benedictine High School, Anthony got a job playing piano with a local big band, The Kings Of Swing, at Kings Dominion Amusement Park. That led to jobs with Busch Gardens and Carnival Cruise Lines. In the early 80s' Anthony moved to Hartford, CT and honed his solo piano skills at local restaurants, modeling his playing after pianist Dave McKenna

Dimitrije Vasiljevic

Born: April 10, 1985

Dimitrije Vasiljević is a New York-based award-winning pianist and composer who has been hailed by jazz masters as one of the most promising names in the jazz world. His is a new voice combining the gentle flavor of European jazz with intricate musical landscapes full of exotic rhythms and sophisticated harmony. This multi-talented pianist is today among the most exciting new artists on the NYC jazz scene. From his native Serbia, where he was a member of prominent jazz ensembles and performed extensively throughout Europe, Dimitrije’s journey has taken him to Berklee College of Music in Boston where he received a number of prestigious awards including the Jazz Performance Award and Piano Department Achievement Award

John Krantz

Born: February, 1956

JOHN KRANTZ plays straight ahead jazz standards in the Des Moines, Iowa area usually in piano/bass duo format.  After a career in the family business, John returned  to performing regularly in 2006 with a nine year stint at Sam and Gabe's Italian Bistro.  He appears regularly at several Des Moines establishments and private events including monthly at The Des Moines Embassy Club.   John was inducted in the CJC Jazz Hall of Fame in 2024 for his many contributions to the local JAZZ Community, including spearheading the annual Jazz In July at Hoyt Sherman Place, booking local jazz musicians and performing himself