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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)

Mark d'Inverno

Born: August 29, 1965

Mark d’Inverno was born in 1965 and started playing piano around the age of 5 and jazz piano from the age of 13. Whilst studying at St Catherine’s College Oxford he co-founded the Oxford Jazz Club in 1983, where he played weekly with his trio and other guest musicians. He also led a number of bands in Oxford in the mid-1980s and featured regularly in the music of town and university life. After touring Japan for several months as a drummer in a pop trio in 1989 he moved to London and immediately started to play with some of the leading musicians on the jazz scene there. As a graduate student at UCL in London he led and conducted the UCL big band, which went on several European tours and appeared several times at the London Jazz Festival

Ben Wilcock

Born: April 2, 1981

Ben Wilcock is a New Zealand pianist and composer. After years of working as a session musician Ben dedicated his musical output to jazz. Forming Thick Records NZ with John Rae in 2014, he released ‘Sneaky Weasel’.

Since then he has released five albums as a leader. The lastest release is Splendid Isolation, a 14 song collaboration of original material with John Rae.

With his 2021 release ‘The River Tethys’, Wilcock broke away from conventionality through an eclectic mix of harmonic centres and brave improvisation The album is based on the characters and worlds from the sci-fi novel series 'Hyperion Cantos' by Dan Simmons. Each track on ‘The River Tethys’ is based on different unique worlds explored by protagonists within the sci-novel.

Vladan

Born: July 17, 1984

New York City-based jazz pianist and composer VLADAN began playing the piano at age 7, as the latest incarnation of a generations-long dynasty steeped in the unique Balkan musical tradition. After completing music school in his hometown, VLADAN continued his education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich (Jazz Piano), studying with world-renowned Russian jazz pianist Leonid Chizhik and graduating with honors. In 2010 he received a prestigious scholarship from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Since 2006 VLADAN has recorded and performed extensively, most often as part of a trio or as soloist