Results for "piano"

Jon Batiste

Born: November 10, 1986

~Pianist Jonathan Batiste is a member of a long lineage of musicians from the Batiste family of Louisiana. He was introduced to music by his family's band, the Batiste Brothers Band, in which he played percussion/drums at age 8. He switched to piano around the age of 12. By the age of 17, he released the first of his two CDs as a leader entitled "Times In New Orleans" featuring New Orleans musicians Jason Marsalis, Donald Harrison, Jr., and Christian Scott. By then he was already attracting considerable attention as a young musician of great talent and potential. In 2004 he graduated from the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) as a prime young performer

Laurent Bronner

Born: May 24, 1967

Pianiste et compositeur de formation classique, dipl

Mark Nilan Jr

Born: September 5, 1983

Hands On Mark Nilan Jr. Mark Nilan’s musical journey began from day one. Raised in a musical family, Mark’s father also being a pianist, Mark was surrounded by the music that would shape his style such as Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire, Chick Corea, George Duke, Ray Charles and Tower Of Power. Nilan was so gifted and adept in music that by the time he was a high school senior he had already been playing professionally for many years, attending college music courses, and teaching music theory at his high school. Nilan won several awards for ‘Best Jazz Soloist’ at Music Festivals in his early years

Jeremy Weinglass

Born: January 1, 1978

Jeremy Weinglass began his musical studies at the age of seven at Nueva Learning Center on a Yehudi Menuhin Scholarship for piano. As an original member of the Ragazzi Peninsula Boys' Chorus, and while attending advanced piano and theory classes at the Conservatory of Music in San Francisco, Jeremy was exposed very early on to a wide spectrum of musical education. In junior high and high school he performed with jazz bands, accompanied school choirs, and was vocal and music director of several musical productions. During this time, Jeremy studied with the person he considers his most influential teacher, Thomas La Ratta, former Music Director at Notre Dame de Namur University. After high school, Jeremy attended Notre Dame for a year with a concentration in Piano Performance

Marcus Persiani

Marcus is a consummate musician who possesses a diverse musical vocabulary. He’s toured the U.S. and the world with notable artists that include Joseph Bowie’s Defunkt and Willie Colon. He’s also performed with Jerry and Andy Gonzalez, the Impressions, James “Jabbo” Ware, Vanessa Rubin, Savion Glover, and the Apollo Theater Showtime Band. Marcus has also shared the stage with immortals of the pantheon of greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Cecil McBee, Tito Puente, and Charlie Persip (Super-sound). As an integral part of Harlem’s musical scene, he was a member of the Sugar Hill Quartet for nearly two decades in the band’s residencies at St. Nick’s Pub, Lenox Lounge, Minton’s Playhouse, and Smoke (on the Upper West Side).

Axel Schwintzer

Born in Cologne, Germany, not long after Keith Jarrett played his legendary Köln Concert in the same city, Axel Schwintzer has started to play the piano at the age of 10. He studied mostly classical music at first, and later switched primarily to Jazz and improvised music. After completing a master's program at the University of Bonn, Germany, where he majored in Political Science and English Linguistics, Axel received a scholarship to study at Boston's Berklee College of Music, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 2004. In his studies, he concentrated on performance and composition in various styles. After graduating from Berklee, Axel lived in Boston for two and a half years, playing throughout New England with various bands such as Cheek to Cheek, Alley Blues, or the Gaku Murata Quartet, and teaching piano at the Merry Melody Music Academy in Norwood, Massachusetts

Glafkos Kontemeniotis

Glafkos Kontemeniotis was born on the island of Cyprus in 1969. He showed musical interest at an early age and began studying classical piano at the age of 9. He came to New York in 1988 and studied classical piano with Paul Sheftel and jazz piano privately with Lee Evans ,and later with Harold Danko at the Manhattan School Of Music. He received his MA in composition in 1998 from Hunter College. During his MA Studies he studied jazz piano with Mike Longo and composition with Anthony Branker. He has been working professionally as a musician since he first came to new York in 1988 and has been performing extensively within the greek and jazz communities

James Pearson

He is the Artistic Director at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club where his trio are the house band. There last album ‘Swing the Club’ recorded live at the venue received excellent reviews across the board. The recording was ranked at No.6 in the Sunday Times albums of 2009 and they were delighted to sell out four nights at the legendary Birdland Jazz Club in New York. James is equally at home as a concert pianist. He has played concertos with the Philharmonia and the BBC Concert Orchestra amongst many others. His performance of Rachmaninoff’s 2nd piano Concerto was broadcast on Classic FM and Gershwin’s Piano Concerto and Rhapsody in Blue on BBC Radio 2

David Gleason

David Gleason is a pianist, composer, music educator and ethnomusicologist living in New York's Capital Region. He received an M.A. in music from Tufts University where he studied ethnomusicology and composition. As an ethnomusicologist he researched Caribbean folk and popular music in Puerto Rico and Cuba. His fieldwork culminated in a thesis entitled "La Parranda Puertorriquena: The Music, Symbolism and Cultural Nationalism of Puerto Rico's Christmas Serenading Tradition." As a jazz and Latin pianist he has performed with ensembles such as RumbaNaMa, The Boston Latin Band, The Either/Orchestra, Altiplano, Mojive, and the Kinewe African Drum Ensemble as well as renown musicians like Laurel Masse, Fred Wesley, Danilo Perez, and John Fedchock

Leo Caruso

Born: November 14, 1965

[COMPOSER, ARRANGER, PIANIST, VOCALIST, KEYBOARD PLAYER, SESSIONIST] PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND LAST WORKS: -Soundtrack for: Façade, a one-act interactive drama, an Artificial Intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative. Free download / cd-rom in: http://www.interactivestory.net/ -Soundtrack for Last notes, Black, a feature of Dominic D. Delay, Mud Puddle Films. Starring by: Kaline Carr. http://www.mudpuddlefilms.com -Score for Football Dreams, a documentary filmed by Ale Corte, AC Productions (UK). -Instrumental songs for the soundtrack of The Cardboard Train a documentary filmed by Ale Corte, AC Productions (UK). http://www.thecardboardtrain.com -Music score for The Message, a short of Milana Walter Tour ‘09: Lorenzo Thompson’s Tour. The Chicago bluesman in Argentina, with Daniel Raffo’s King Size band. Cities: Bariloche, El Bolsón, Esquel and Buenos Aires. http://www.danielraffo.com.ar/ http://www.myspace.com/lorenzothompson -Winter ’09- Last work for theatre: Original music and soundtrack for As