Results for "piano"

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

Leonieke Scheuble

Leonieke Scheuble is a gifted pianist and jazz organist who has a rare talent for blues and jazz improvisation at an unusually young age. Born to an engineer mother and a musician father in 2002, she was given a Dutch name after her parents lived in the Netherlands on assignment and developed an affection for Holland and the Dutch people. Her namesake is the Dutch pianist, Leonieke Vermeer. Leonieke (phonetically pronounced “lay-o-nee-ka”) started to play piano sometime after being inspired by “Ray,” a movie based on the life of Ray Charles. Without any prior musical training, she began to spend great lengths of time at the piano creating songs that were rhythmically interesting and compositionally balanced

Joshua Richman

Pianist and composer, Joshua Richman received his BA from William Paterson University in 2008. In 2010, he completed his master’s degree studying jazz piano performance at The Juilliard School. Joshua has studied jazz with piano legends such as Mulgrew Miller and Kenny Barron, and classical piano with Gary Kirkpatrick. He is a two-time winner of the ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award. Along with leading the Joshua Richman Trio, Joshua has been fortunate to have performed with distinguished artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Terell Stafford, Randy Brecker, Peter Washington, Kenny Washington, Benny Golson, Eric Alexander, John Ellis, Harry Allen, Jeremy Pelt, and Lea Delaria

Andre Sims

Born: June 12

A highly skilled musician with extensive experience in entertaining live audiences in concert halls, theaters and music workshops.Also live recording sessions/studio sessions.. Andre Sims not only performs live but also Composes, Film score ,Produces ,Music director. Skills: Music, Teaching, Composing/produce music, Site reading/perfect pitch, director of bands, solo instrumentalist. Musical Styles: CLassical, Jazz , Blues, Country, R&B, Hip hop, filmscore/jingles,gospel, Latin Afro Cuban ect.. Andre Sims Has Performed and encountered on stage Artists such as Tom Browne, Ronnie Laws, Davell Crawford, Bobbi Humphrey, Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder,Kem,Regina Bell, Howard Hewett, Alyson Williams, The Ohio Players, Surface,The Manhattans,Peter white, Will Downing, Roy Ayers,Richard Smallwood

Jesse Boulting

Born: October 15, 2002

I am a 12 year old jazz pianist, nothing else.

Robbie Rose

Pianist Robbie Rose was born in Michigan. A child prodigy, Rose began composing original tunes at age 13. He attended the legendary music and art High School Community High in Ann Arbor and honed his jazz skills working with the great Detroit players of the 1970s. From 1980-82 Rose attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, studying with Fred Hersch, Tom McKinnley, and Miroslav Vitous. Rose has appeared with Cab Calloway, Gil Evans, George Russel, The Rascals, Kenny Garrett, Jerry Bergonzi and David Mann, among others. He composed and recorded many commercial jingles and TV themes, including the theme for “Zoo Life Magazine” which is still airing in Europe. Rose has lived and worked in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Paris, and now resides in Sarasota, FL with his wife and son.

Michael Arbenz

Michael Arbenz has been active as leader of various bands during the last couple of years. They gave concerts throughout Europe and recorded several CDs. Internationally renowned musicians such as Greg Osby, Dave Liebman, Wolfgang Puschnig, Glenn Ferris, Muneer B. Fennell, Kent Carter, Matthieu Michel and Marc Johnson joined his activities. He also gave classical concerts with Pierre Boulez, Paul Sacher, Jürg Wyttenbach, the Ensemble Contrechamps and Hans Zehnder, just to name a few.

Harry Happel

The Dutch jazz trio INTRIODUCTION was set up in 1976 by leader Harry Happel, a fantastic self-taught piano player. The Trio got to the top in a short period of time after they had been on television and had played a lot of live jazz in the famous Dutch radio jazz program "Sesjun". After these performances, the media described INTRIODUCTION in terms such as: "exceptional class", "professional" and "swinging”. They felt honoured, after having played on the 100th, 250th and 500th broadcasting anniversary of the program, when they were asked to play in the 1000th program as well! The musical style of Harry Happel is mainstream and has been influenced by musicians like Monty Alexander, Oscar Peterson, Gene Harris etc