Results for "piano"

Stefan Thiele

Born: July 21, 1965

I started playing music at the early age of 8 on my first instrument, the accordeon. By the age of 15, I already played drums, trumpet and guitar as well, I started playing piano, which soon became my main instrument. When 17 years old, I got in touch with jazz through listening to Chet Baker and Oscar Peterson, and started performing in bands. In 1984 I saw Miles Davis performing live in Germany which should change my life. 2 years later I started studying music to become a professional musician. In 1988 I moved to the Netherlands to study Jazzpiano with the great dutch jazzpianists Henk Elkerbout and Rob Madna

Mariah Parker

Born: January 20

Mariah Parker has been playing music from the time she could reach the keys on the grand piano in her family home. As a composer, pianist and bandleader her work crosses cultural boundaries with an exuberant quest for defying musical labels or categorization. Her academic tenure at UC Santa Cruz was distinguished by her involvement with ethnomusicologist Fred Lieberman and the iconic drummer Mickey Hart on the “Planet Drum” project, marking her early foray into the fusion of musical traditions. Parker’s prowess as a composer and bandleader was further cemented through her vibrant performances in festivals in the U.S

David Satian

Born: August 17, 1979

David Satian was born in Armenia (August 17,1979) in a family of known dynasty of composers. He represents the 3rd generation of composers in his family. His father Aram Satian(1947) and grandfather Aram Satunts (1913-1990, Peoples Artist of Armenia, awarded with the Silver Medal of Alexandrov) are famous composers who were members of the Composers Union of USSR. Grandfather's brother Ashot Satian(1906-1956) was a Chairman of the Composers Union of Armenia, Laureate of the USSR State and Stalin Premiums (Gold Medal). Folowing the footsteps of his ancestors David has started from the age of 6 to attend Music school, then at 14 he studied in Music College and by the age of 17 Satian was accepted by the Armenian State Conservatory (Composition and Theory Department), where he obtained his BA and MA Diplomas with honour in 2002

Jon Notar

Born: May 9, 1986

Jon Notar began playing the piano at the age of 10, discovering his love for jazz in high school. He currently attends New School University , in Manhattan, where he is a fifth year student working towards a double degree in Jazz Performance and Science. Jon is also an avid composer and writes and arranges music for his quintet. He has studied with Marc Copeland, John Hollenbeck, Craig Taborn, Dick Hyman, Bill Charlap, Tony Malaby and Eric Reed. The Winard Harper Sextet is his professional debut with whom has toured extensively around the country for the past year; and has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with jazz greats including: Frank Wess, Billy Taylor, Winard and Phillip Harper, Don Braden, Ronnie Cuber and Grant Stewart, among others.

Samuli Mikkonen

Born: March 24, 1973

Jazz pIanist and composer Samuli Mikkonen (b.1973 Jyvaskyla, Finland) is an emerging name in the European jazz scene. His distinct and recognisable sound has its deepest roots in the landspaces and sounds of Central Finland, an area full of lakes and forests. Besides the Scandinavian and European jazz tradition, influences of Finnish as well as other ethnic musics can be heard, as well as 20th century classical music. His latest project, KUÀRA, is an all-acoustic trio with drummer Markku Ounaskari and trumpet player Per Jorgensen, and their first CD on ECM Records, produced by Manfred Eicher, was released in November 2010

Harlan Mark Vale

Born: December 3, 1954

My name is Harlan Mark Vale. I am a musician. I live and breathe music. Without music, there is no life. I am also spirit. The journey that got me to this realization is also the journey that created the album, Bright Angel. The music I have created here is a free-flowing river of the Divine expressing itself through me. My formal music training began at The Evergreen State College in Washington State in the 70’s, where I studied electronic music and audio engineering. Later, I performed with Trillium, The New Art Orchestra, and others creating free improvisational jazz and experimental genres playing piano, synthesizer and percussion. After years of playing and recording electronic music covering many genres, I have finally returned to my beginnings; the piano

Alfred Gómez Jr.

Born: October 17, 1978

Alfred Gomez Jr., is a singer-songwriter and producer, born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1978. His sound blends Rhythm and Blues and Folk music with a Latin twist. Emerges as one of the voices to be heard in the Latin American Indie music scene. New Album, Espiral, out March 13, 2017. In 2008 releases La Reina Peinandose his debut album, The repertoire of the album was composed, arranged by the same musician and produced in collaboration with fellow countryman, musician, and arranger Chris Holder. This recording contains ten tracks where soul and jazz are amalgamated with Boogaloo, Hard Salsa and fusion elements

Adnan Ajdini

Born: March 15, 1969

Adnan Ajdini (frontman of the band, arranger, keyboards), born: March 15, 1969, in Skopje, lives in Skopje. Elementary and high school finished in Skopje. Graduated at University of “St. Cyril and Methodius", Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Institute of Informatics, Skopje. Works for National Bank of Republic of Macedonia.

Patricia Duffy

Patricia was born and raised in suburban Toronto, Canada, and, as a child, found herself reluctantly entertaining her parents' friends and family on the piano whenever they'd stop by for visits. But what she found sometimes tedious in childhood and walked away from when high school beckoned (much to her parents' dismay, having paid for six years of piano lessons), she returned to as a teenager, when she discovered an Elton John music book and began playing her favourite tunes, by both sight and ear. It is on the piano as an adult that she has written over eighty songs. Patricia has been a fixture on the Toronto music scene for twenty-five years, having played the lounge, wedding, private, corporate and country club circuit for much of that time

Agnar Mar Magnusson

Born: August 30, 1974

Agnar Már Magnússon began musical studies at a young age. After graduating from the FÍH school of music in Reykjav