Results for "piano"

Dave Meder

Pianist, composer, and educator Dave Meder is one of the prominent artists of his generation, known for a broad musical palette and interdisciplinary approach recognized in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition, the American Pianists Awards, and the Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commissioning program. Beyond the accolades, his defining aesthetic is a strikingly postmodern sense of stylistic adventure, incorporating what All About Jazz describes as “a vibrant hybrid of the whole American spectrum.” His first album Passage was counted among the top five jazz debuts in the Ottawa Citizen and was included in the annual “Favorite Jazz Albums” list from All Music Guide, noted for its skillful balancing of “post-bop harmonies with soulful gospel warmth and contemporary classical sophistication.” His recent release Unamuno Songs and Stories uses the works of Spanish Civil War-era philosopher Miguel de Unamuno to respond to sociopolitical turmoil in the United States

Sam Baum

Born: April 14, 1992

Sam began to play jazz piano in 2005 when he was 13, and immediately it was clear that jazz was Sam's language. Like many people on the autistic spectrum, Sam had never found the standard give and take of conversation easy or natural. Jazz improvisation, on the other hand, is where Sam is most clever, expressive, and naturally at home. Under the expert and caring guidance of his teachers, Trudy Silver, Danny Mixon, David Dormeus, Gary Dial, Dan Kaufman and Adam Rafferty, Sam has blossomed as a musician, becoming more and more skilled in the complex language of jazz improvisation and creating his own very expressive and personal style. We are all extremely appreciative of their supportive and encouraging involvement in Sam's musical education as well as that of many other musicians Sam has encountered on his short musical journey so far

Amit Mizrahi

JAKSPIN

Born: December 10, 1982

JAKSPIN is a Greek/Lebanese producer, singer and DJ born and raised in Cologne, Germany, where he started writing rhymes at the age of 12, deejaying at age 14. He embarked on his musical career as a DJ in Cologne's legendary underground soul music club called Kauri Keller. His first official release was a party break 12“ vinyl winning the Club Bangaz Worldwide competition. After remixing R&B songs for the label Da Source Records he finally metamorphosed into the artist JAKSPIN with a new sound ranging from lofi hip hop beats to vintage 70s Jazz and R&B grooves. He began to gain recogintion with the release of his first beat tape „Beats From the Attic“

Emanuele Coluccia

Born: June 19, 1974

Pianist, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Emanuele Coluccia has led his career between Europe and the United States. In his New York period, started in 1999, he embarked on a very active career both in concert activities (Brooklyn Film Festival, Lincoln Center, University of Stoneybrook, WAX Studios, German Consulate, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Princeton University) and in studio work. In the USA he collaborated with the American singer-songwriter Myla Hardie, the Afro-jazz artist Alain Kodjovi, the Italian singer Greta Panettieri, the German trumpet player / composer Volker Goetze, the French singer-songwriter Chris Combette, and took part in the European tours of the New York trumpet player Greg Glassman. Back in Italy, together with with Claudio Prima and Redi Hasa, he founded Bandadriatica: a project with which he has released 5 studio works, performed in several tours in Italy and abroad and had prestigious collaborations (King Naat Veliov and Kocani Orkestra, Eva Quartet, Raiz, Boban & Marko Markovic, Sabina Yannatou)

Paul Ward

Dave Herridge

Born: March 24, 1940

Dave was born on 24 March 1940 and was classically trained in piano from the age of 6, studying with Marie Gardner LRAM, Kathleen Long FRCM CBE, Jacques Fevrier CNSP and jazz greats Art Simmonds and Aaron Bridgers. Over a career spanning five decades David has played at a number of renowned venues in Paris and London including the Savoy, Ritz, Dorchester, Hilton Park Lane and Clifton Ford Hotels in London and the Crillon in Paris. He has also combined his passion for Jazz and love of Paris, now his home, by playing a large number of the city’s renowned jazz clubs including "Le Chat Qui Peche", Les Trois Maillets" and La Cigale with Jack Butler and Benny Walters and occasional invited guests such as Milt Hinton and Albert Nicholas. ​ Dave has also pursued a distinguished academic career in the UK heading two high school music departments as well as, later in his career, providing music and drama coaching to children with special needs and piano tuition at the BRIT school of performing arts in Croydon, UK. In recent years, following retirement from teaching, Dave has toured with the Pete Allen Dixieland Jazz Band and continues to make resident and guest appearances at small venues near his home in Paris such as Le Petit Journal (Montparnasse and St Michel), Au Point de Salut and Le Caveau de la Huchette.

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Walter Gorra

Born: September 17, 1993

Walter Gorra is an award-winning pianist, composer and arranger based out of the New York/New Jersey metro area. Currently 26 years old, Walter graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder Magna Cum Laude and High Honors in May 2017 with the following three degrees – MS Structural engineering, BM Jazz Piano and BS Civil Engineering. He then pursued a master’s degree in Jazz Composition and Arranging at William Paterson University, graduating in May 2019. In 2016, Walter led his Colorado quartet in a two-month residency at the Denver jazz club – Nocturne Jazz and Supper Club; performing his original music and arrangements

Hoyle Osborne

Born: August 30, 1948

Hoyle Osborne — pianist, composer, arranger, producer, director, also plays mandolin, guitar, banjo, recorder, and pennywhistle — centered on American vernacular styles — ragtime, stride piano, early jazz and blues, old-time country music, folk, western swing — also plays and arranges Celtic, Latin, French, and other world styles, plus renaissance and baroque music. Hoyle and singer-songwriter-guitarist Jane Voss have performed and recorded together since 1976, appearing across North America and in England at many major music festivals, countless concerts, and on a number of National Public Radio programs