Results for "piano"

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

Dan Pincus

Born: February 18, 1952

Ty Hoying

Born: September 8, 1986

Ty Hoying lives in Stockholm, Sweden where he works as a freelance musician and as a music educator at Kulturama and Södra Latin gymnasium. He emigrated from the USA in early 2013, shortly after completing a Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies from the University of North Texas. Ty is excited to bring his style of improvised music to Sweden and the European Union, but he still loves to play for audiences at home in North America, too. He is available for private lessons in piano and improvisation, live gigs, studio work, accompaniment, and is accepting commissions for composition. Ty’s musical journey began with his first piano lessons at the age of 4

Chris Gall

Born: July 11, 1975

Born in 1975 in Bad Aibling, Germany, Chris Gall is an up and coming pianist who has been gaining recognition in the international music scene. His playing crosses the borders of jazz and jumps into the vast field of contemporary world and pop music. After years of training as a classical pianist, he was awarded with several scholarships and studied at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA. He finished his jazz studies there in 1998. Chris Gall was a permanent member of some promising international bands, including East Indian fusion band “Taalism” feat. Shakir Khan (sitar) and Kai Eckhardt (bass) or brazilian based “Giana Viscardi Group” with whom Chris Gall made his debut at the famous Montreux Jazz Festival