Results for "piano"

Camilla Mraz

Virtuoso pianist/vocalist/composer Camilla Mraz has been an integral part of the international music scene for more than 20 years. She has appeared in many major jazz festivals, concert halls, and clubs all over the world. Camilla also collaborates with her husband, first-call jazz bassist George Mraz. Today they make New York City their home. A native of the Czech Republic, Camilla’s love affair with the piano began when she was just four years old. She was composing by age five. Camilla attended the Prague Conservatory where she studied composition, jazz piano and vocals. She subsequently received a degree from the Music College in Germany

Geena Cesar

Geena Cesar is a jazz pianist from Miami, Florida. She currently performs with the Gainesville Big Band (formerly the Gainesville Community Jazz Band), a 22-piece ensemble directed by Marco Thomas. The Gainesville Big Band performes for festivals and events throughout the state, including the Lakeside Jazz Festival in Port Orange, Florida and the Gainesville Jazz Festival.

gianna giavelli

Born: October 3

Gianna Giavelli is a jazz pianist. Her first album "In a Giavellic Mood" combined classical themes with free jazz and improv to produce a relaxing fusion the inspires deep listening and thought over the melodies of Satie, Winston, and others. Her second albumn "Jazz Babies" is more modern and aggressive with all original work. Her vocals are deep and reminiscent of Nina Simone. She has been playing straight ahead jazz and free jazz improv for twenty years and has toured all over Europe.

Richard Bugbee

Born: January 15, 1967

Mehmet Ali Sanlikol

Born: September 24, 1974

Grammy nominated composer and CMES Harvard University fellow (2013-15) Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol made his Carnegie Hall debut in April 2016 premiering his commissioned piece Harabat/The Intoxicated with the American Composers Orchestra. Other recent works have been heard at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall and on A Far Cry string orchestra’s several different recordings. He hails from Cyprus and Turkey, and is a Jazz pianist, a multi-instrumentalist, a singer, an ethnomusicologist as well as a full-time faculty member at the New England Conservatory. Sanlıkol was the recipient of numerous respected awards including the South Arts Jazz Road Creative Residency Grant in 2021, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Grant twice in 2016 and 2020 as well as the New Music USA Project Grant in 2020 and has been praised by critics all over the world for his unique, pluralist, multicultural and energetic musical voice. The Boston Globe noted that Sanlıkol’s “music is colorful, fanciful, full of rhythmic life, and full of feeling. The multiculturalism is not touristy, but rather sophisticated, informed, internalized; Sanlıkol is a citizen of the world”, “…and he (Sanlıkol) is another who could play decisive role in music’s future in the world.”

Judi Glover

Pianist Judi Glover is based in the Philadelphia area and works in the winter months in the Central West and Southwest areas of Florida. She has been a member of (husband) Alex Glover & Company band since 1987. She is a graduate of Rowan University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Classical Piano Performance. Besides working with the band, she is currently a piano accompanist for student recitals at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She also performs with various size ensembles, ranging from solo to quintet, at Atlantic City Casinos and other corporate functions in the Delaware Valley. As musical arranger, Judi has scored music for ensembles ranging from 5-piece groups to 30-piece orchestras

Lionel Haas

Bio Lionel Haas was born on December 27, 1971 in Bonn, Germany. He had his first piano lesson at the age of 9 and developed an interest in jazz, blues and rock at an early age. Lionel's first formal study of jazz was during a series of jazz workshops at the Richmond College near London, UK, at the age of 13 to 15. During his four-year stay in the US, he became increasingly involved in the Washington jazz scene and was frequently booked for gigs at restaurants, hotels and clubs. To advance his musical development, he attended some summer clinics at the Berklee College of Music

Craig T. Raisner

Born: April 15, 1961

Jeremy Mage

Born: July 13

   Jeremy Mage writes songs that are emotionally vulnerable and philosophical. "I studied with Alan Ginsberg in intensive workshops when I was a teenager deep in the 80's NYC Punk scene. I was influenced by the no-frills, buddhist song-poems he was performing at the time. He attacked the mysticism in my work, and made me ground my writing in reality, which led me to seriously study Buddhist Philosophy. Those experiences have informed my life and my songwriting."  More recently, Mage has been a frequent participant in NYC downtown folk icon Jack Hardy's songwriting workshops in Greenwich Village.  "Jack helped me understand the true power of song

Cameron Graves

The release of Kamasi Washington's The Epic last year marked a seismic shift in the jazz landscape and the game-changing arrival of the genre-blurring Los Angeles collective West Coast Get Down. That evolution continues with the release of Planetary Prince, the debut album by visionary pianist, keyboardist, composer and WCGD founding member Cameron Graves. Upon signing with Mack Avenue Records, Graves’ nearly released four song EP of the same name was expanded to an eight track full length album, all packed with the same mind-expanding invention that marked all of the work previously generated by the WCGD – including Kamasi Washington’s universally acclaimed debut The Epic (which prominently featured Graves throughout its three discs)