Results for "piano"

Victor Noriega

Born: May 5, 1978

Victor Noriega, Emerging Artist of the Year (2005 Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Awards), is an active pianist/composer based in the Pacific Northwest. He has impressed jazz audiences worldwide with his dynamic command of the piano and his inventive and compelling improvisations. His compositions showcase powerful melodies layered with sophisticated harmonies and rhythms, creating an original and exciting style of jazz piano. Since he was 18, the young musician has been playing piano solo, with his trio and with other jazz groups in premier venues, including the Triple Door, Jazz Alley and at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle

Ivan M.

Born: 1974

Ivan started playing piano at age 6. He completed a primary and secondary school with a degree of piano performer. Since then, he has been playing piano/keyboard, arranging and singing in talent shows, recitals, and has also performed in gigs with a classic rock band and a jazz band. Although his 11 years of piano training is primarily in classical music, he has been playing jazz, rock and pop all along.

Meddy Gerville

Born: December 16, 1974

Born in 1974 in St-Pierre on Réunion Island, Meddy Gerville recorded his first album in 1997 called “Réunion Island” which included some prestigious artists from Paris: Louis Winsberg, Nicolas Folmer, Philippe Sellam and various local Réunionese musicians. In 2000 Meddy won the Pian’Austral Award for the best pianist in the Indian Ocean (with the acclaimed Alain Jean-Marie as one of the judges). Following that, Meddy released his second album “Jazz’Oya” with guest musicians from the Paris and Réunion: Olivier Louvel (The Barbès National Orchestra), Stéphane Guillaume, (Didier Lockwood and Stéphane Huchard, The National Orchestra of Jazz), Linley Marthe (Joe Zawinul). In 2003 Meddy released his third album titled “Sobat’ ek Lamour” (Fight with Love “Not with War”), with artists that he previously worked with: Nicolas Folmer, Stéphane Guillaume, Daniel Zimmermann, Olivier Louvel, Louis Winsberg as well as Fabrice Legros. 2006 was a major turning point for this Réunionese pianist

Jarrett Cherner

Hailed as “an impressive soloist and an immaculate accompanist” (Richard Kamins) with “a bright future” (Scott Yanow), Brooklyn-based pianist, composer and bandleader Jarrett Cherner has captivated listeners with his lyricism, technical facility and consistently evolving musical vision. Originally from San Francisco, where he garnered praise as “one of the most exciting young pianist-composers on the Bay Area scene” (Andrew Gilbert, San Jose Mercury News), Cherner debuted on his own BaldHill Music label in 2006 with the compelling trio release Burgeoning, which earned recognition from the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards

Ken Berman

Born: September 14

Pianist and composer Ken Berman has performed and recorded with Bob Moses, Yoron Israel, Kai Eckhardt, Akira Tana, John Lockwood, Bob Gullotti, Rémi Vignolo, Jaleel Shaw, Sarah Manning, Take Toriyama and others: he has appeared on the famed stages of Carnegie Hall in New York, Yoshi's in San Francisco, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Detroit's Fox Theater, and The Sunside in Paris. Ken has been the recipient of several artist grants and awards for his ongoing work in jazz education. His music has been the subject of programs on radio stations KCSM in San Francisco, KPFA in Berkeley, and on KZSU at Stanford University, where his playing drew comparisons with Bill Evans, Ramsey Lewis and Keith Jarrett

Leslie Maclean

LESLIE MACLEAN Leslie Maclean, pianist, composer, vocalist and teacher, has been a professional musician since the age of 13. While in college, Leslie worked extensively with free jazz proponent Muhul Richard Abrams. Her imaginative and artistic performance at the Midwest Intercollegiate Jazz Festival won her the esteemed American Music Foundation Award, granted to the single outstanding instrumental soloist at the event. Leslie was deemed "the best" by judging panelist Marian McPartland, who presented the award. She has appeared as a warm-up act for jazz legend Stan Kenton, and has appeared at many top Chicago jazz clubs and on television and radio

Toby Koenigsberg

Born: September 3, 1974

Toby Koenigsberg is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator. He leads a working trio and has released three albums as a leader: Push, a live recording featuring saxophonist Rich Perry; Sense (Origin Records), praised by Cadence, the All Music Guide, and All About Jazz – New York; and Drift (Ninjazz Records), which interprets the music of Elliott Smith. He has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, including at the Rochester International Jazz Festival, Jazz Festival Calgary, the Värinää Festivaali in Finland, and the Knitting Factory in New York City.

Lou Wang

Lou Wang began his musical journey at the age of three when, inspired by a short piece he heard on the radio, he started classical piano lessons. The Vancouver, Canada native continued his classical studies until his freshman year in high school, when he discovered the art of jazz as a pianist for his high school jazz band. At this point, Lou began expanding his musical interests, also becoming an adept guitarist along the way. Music was forced to take a backseat while he completed a Pure Math degree at the University of Waterloo; however, after two years working as a program manager at Microsoft in Seattle, Lou could no longer suppress his passion for music

Annie Friedland

Born: May 28, 1953

Annie has played keyboards since she was one-and-a-half years old. Coming from a family of musicians and artists helped. By the time she was four, she had been thrown out of classical lessons for hearing intricate pieces (she has perfect pitch) and playing them back to the teacher. She started doing gigs.

At eighteen she got a Hammond B-3 for graduation and almost exclusively played the organ for ten years. Despite winning a scholarship to Carnegie Mellon for opera in 1971, she went on the road instead. She opened for B.B. King in Las Vegas at eighteen, and played with Louis Prima, The Four Coins and her own trio until 1984.

Back in Pittsburgh, she was nominated for best jazz vocalist, played all the festivals there with Emily Remler, Kenny Blake and others

Gregorio Gonzalez

Born: January 1, 1962

Greg Gonzalez guitarist-composer Instruments: Guitar and Piano Musical Influences: Maurice Ravel Tom Jobim Jimmy Webb John Coltrane Performances: United Nations, New York Yuca Restaurant, Coral Gables Club House, Fisher Island Citibank FSB, Doral Columbia University, New York Bayamon Jazz Club, San Juan Specs Music, Coconut Grove Borders Book Shop, Kendall