Results for "piano"

Ramon Climent

Born: March 17, 1948

Ramón Climent plays a wide repertoire of own compositions aand own arrangements of well known versions of Jazz and Latin tunes : Swing, Blues, Balade, Latin Jazz, Jazz-Rock & Traditional BeBop Ramón Climent Composer & arrangeur Phone +34 659 900 024 E-mail : [email protected]

Richard Burton

Born: November 13, 1955

Richard Burton is a pianist, composer and producer. He has performed professionally since he was 12 years old. He has played with a wide range of musicians such as Ron Thomas, Bill Goodwin, Clarice Assad, Tony Marino, Johnny DeFrancesco, Sue Terry, Adam Niewood, Mike Falcone, Glenn Ferracone, Lee Smith, Chico Huff, Nancy Reed, Paul Klinefelter, Joe Millen, Tom Reese, Laurie Haines Reese, Vic Juris, Bill Washer, Dave Liebman, Terry Klinefelter, Matt Vashlishan, Ray Ferretti, Bobby Rose, Brent Shallcross, Kristin Garson, Mike Byrne, Roger Morgan, Marc Adler, Bob Sembellico, Adrian Moring, Connor Koch, Patrick McGee, Oscar Williams, Jr., Peter Paulsen, Don Mikkelsen, Ross Patterson, Seth Mellon, John Swana, Al Moretti, Gene Perla and.......

Tim Olsen

Born: September 4, 1961

Tim Olsen is active as composer, performer, and educator. Born in 1961 in St. Paul, Minnesota, his early training involved playing trumpet in marching, concert, and jazz bands. Olsen began writing and arranging for these groups and picked up piano by ear.

He went on to earn a Bachelor of Music (summa cum laude) in music theory and composition from Washington University in St. Louis (1983), a Master of Arts in music theory and composition from the University of Minnesota (1985), and Master of Music (1988), Master of Musical Arts (1989), and Doctor of Musical Arts (1995) in composition from Yale University. As a Fulbright Scholar in 1990-91, Olsen studied with composer Ib Nørholm at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen.

Rafael Zaldivar

Born: October 29, 1982

When JUNO Nominee Rafael Zaldivar sits down at the piano, he brings a wealth of inspiration to the keys: his compositions display his percussion expertise, his many years of collaborating with top jazz musicians, and his cultural heritage. Born in Camagüey, Cuba, Zaldivar is carrying on a rich family legacy of musicianship. After taking up percussion and piano at a young age, Zaldivar pursued his studies at the Higher Institute of Arts in Havana. By 1998, Zaldivar meets the great Herbie Hancock and Kenny Barron in Havana. Once Zaldivar came to Canada at the age of 22, he completed a B.A

Dan Matheson

Born: March 9, 1957

From Boston, Massachusetts, lived in São Paulo, Brazil, currently living in Miami, Florida.

Harvey Boyer

Born: January 17, 1975

Harvey R. Boyer is a multi-faceted performer and educator. Over the course of the past 18 years in the field, Harvey's achievements have made him a highly sought after educator, tenor soloist, conductor, and pianist. Harvey received both his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Ithaca College School of Music with a concentration in Voice and Music Education. He started his career as choral and instrumental music director for 15 years at the Woodstock Elementary School in the Onteora Central School District. For the past two years he has taught at Reginald Bennett Intermediate School as Director of Bands

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Born: January 26, 1980

Simon Purcell

Simon Purcell is probably best known as Head of Jazz at Trinity-Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and member of the Pop and Jazz Steering Group for the Association of European Conservatoires. Since the mid 1980s, Simon has performed both as leader and sideman, appearing with amongst others – Red Rodney, Kenny Wheeler, Eddie Henderson, Stan Sulzman, Jean Toussaint and Julian Arguelles. His current quintet features Julian Siegel, Chris Batchelor and Gene Calderazzo. From a musical family. His parents were classical musicians, his father having performed with a number of London Orchestras, while his grandfather, clarinettist Paddy Purcell, was a listed in Who’s Who as a member of Henry Wood’s Orchestra during the 1920s. He began playing the French horn at 8, and received a thorough classical musical education at school, playing in orchestras, wind-bands, singing in a chapel choir, learning a discipline that he has come to value. In his teens, Simon fumbled through boogie-woogie and various attempts at jazz as relief from hours of long notes on the French-horn, and by the time he left Trinity College of Music in 1980, he was dividing his time between classical music and jazz (only having received instruction in the former). While at college of Music, Simon formed a band with saxophonist Martin Speake, mainly playing bebop, and later jazz-fusion in the group This Side Up

Ingi Bjarni Skúlason

Born: September 9, 1987

Ingi Bjarni Skúlason is an Icelandic pianist and composer who shapes his own poetics. He has released 7 albums with his music and toured both in Europe and Japan. He makes his own kind of folk music with the freedom of expressiveness, and space for both lyrical and free improvisation.

Over the years, Ingi Bjarni has performed his original music with a wide range of musicians across Iceland and Europe. He has appeared at numerous international jazz festivals, including Jazzahead (Bremen), Elbjazz (Hamburg), Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Vilnius Jazz Festival, Lillehammer Jazz Festival, Nordic Jazz Comets, and Reykjavík Jazz Festival. In addition to these, he has given concerts in Iceland, Japan, Sweden, Germany, the UK, Estonia, Latvia, the Faroe Islands, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

Jim Brickman

Jim Brickman’s distinctive piano style and captivating live performances have revolutionized the popularity of instrumental music, making him a driving force behind modern American music. The hit-making songwriter is the best-selling solo pianist of our time earning 21 Number One albums and 32 Top 20 Radio Singles in the industry bible, “Billboard Magazine.” He’s garnered two Grammy nominations, gospel music’s Dove Award, two SESAC Songwriter of the Year Awards, and the Canadian Country Music Award. He also has a music scholarship named for him by his alma mater, the prestigious Cleveland Institute of Music. Born and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Brickman began his music training at the age of five