Results for "piano"

Maurizio Najt

Maurizio was born in Milan, Italy and raised in Argentina where he graduated at piano and composition at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Buenos Aires. Played an important role as a tango pianist in the New York tango renaissance, performing with the ensemble "Amigos del Tango," and later with the "New York Tango Trio" with whom he performed at Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires in 2002 for the Festival de Música Internacional. Performed with the Forever Tango Orchestra (Luis Bravo's Tony winning product) touring the US, Mexico, Japan and China. Other performance venues include: Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center Plaza, Alice Tully Hall, El Museo del Barrio, Argentine Embassy in DC and Tokyo; Vanderbilt Mansion Museum in LI, Caramoor Center for Music and Arts, The Montclair Art Museum; Brooklyn's Museum of Art; Cleveland Art Museum; Philadelphia Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Ravinia Festival in Chicago; Smithsonian Art Museum in DC, and countless milongas and tango shows throughout the US playing along master bandoneonists such as Grammy winner Raul Jaurena, Tito Castro and Héctor del Curto

Lars Jakob Rudjord

Born: March 20, 1984

Lars Jakob Rudjord is a Norwegian pianist and composer. Over the last few years he has established himself as an acclaimed musician on the Norwegian music scene, focusing primarily on his own groups and projects. He has lead his own group “Lars Jakob Rudjord Ensemble” since 2009. He released his first record, entitled “Clockwork”, with LJR Ensemble in 2013. Together with singer Ingvild Koksvik he has toured most of Norway. In 2012 they did a commissioned work together based on Rolf Jacobsen’s poetry, released on the album “Nattåpent” in April 2013. He has played concerts in Norway and China with saxophone player Frøy Aagre, and over the last year he has also played on the most important Norwegian jazz festivals and in Germany, Spain and the Middle East with the Norwegian world jazz saxophone player Karl Seglem. Lars Jakob is educated from the University in Oslo (Bachelor’s degree in Musicology) and the Norwegian Academy of Music (Bachelor’s degree in jazz piano and pedagogy).

Marla Barina

Born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Began playing piano at age 4. Loved to listen to all kinds of music as a child. American Jazz and Brazilian forms of jazz; such as Bossa Nova were my favorites. I also loved the music of Scott Joplin. By the time I was a teenager, I had fallen in love with and a had become proficient at playing Pop/Theater Organ. Singing in choirs, both at school and church, has always been a part of my life. I sang with the Fort Worth Symphony Oratorio Chorus for 13 years. Currently, I live in Bella Vista. I play piano/keyboard as part of a Latin/Jazz Duo called "CongaKeyz"

Chris Tauchner

Born: December 23, 1973

Jerry Léonide

Born: May 3, 1984

Jerry Léonide is a young musician born 1984 in the beautiful island of Mauritius. He started to play music at the age of seven with the help of his father who is a guitarist. Very quickly ,his natural talent made him one the youngest pianists to be on stage playing with different bands in different styles. Jerry is mainly self-taught but at the age of 17 he felt the need to go to a music school to master the language of Jazz. He left his country 11 years ago to go to Paris to study music. He had the chance to study with famous teachers and at the same time experiencing the parisian scene. Jerry has built himself a reputation of being one of the most talented and versatile pianists of his generation

Floris Boere

Floris Boere is a young but skilled pianist and composer, with experience playing music for over 18 years. He is a writing member of the original pop band Rexford, plays jazz with his own quartet and holds a Master of Music in Jazz Studies from NYU, at which he served as an Adjunct Faculty member. Perceptive of the fact that an instrument does not impose limits on who can be your mentor, he studied music with pianist Jean-Michel Pilc, guitarist Wayne Krantz and drummer Tony Moreno. He moved from his hometown Amsterdam to New York to put his pursuit of a career in music in second gear

Kristina Moonlight

Born: February 4

Enoch Lee

Born: March 23, 1986

Enoch Lee (Seong Yeob Lee) Enoch Lee is a Producer, a Composer and a Jazz Pianist living in New York City. He received his Bachelors of Music in Performance from Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA). In addition, he graduated with a Master of Music in Jazz Studies from New York University. Enoch believes that artist have to find and share the real beauty to give light to people’s heart in such circumstance, because humans get easily affected by what they see hear and think. (Enoch believes that, because people get easily affected by what they see and hear, it is the responsibility of artists to discover and share the true meaning of beauty, bringing light to people’s heart.) He attempts to express genuine beauty – the values people share in common even without education, such as compassion, kindness, care, sacrifice, love between parent and a child, and the wonders of nature – through his music

Khalif Neville

Khalif Neville, while being born in New Orleans, grew up in Western Massachusetts. Studying with his father from a young age, he has always had an appreciation for Jazz, particualrly BeBop. Some of his favorite pianists include: Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, Red Garland, Eroll Garner and many more. He has played with his father for some time now, and has also played with New England greats such as: Avery Sharpe, Samira Evans, Jeff Pitchell and a number of others on occasion. His personal musical endeavors are far and wide, but he has a deep rooted love for Jazz, particularyl solo Jazz piano

Alex Conde

The singular music of jazz legend Thelonious Monk has been interpreted by countless players over the years. Great jazz pianists like Bud Powell, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Randy Weston, Barry Harris, Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea have dealt with his unorthodox dissonances, angular melodic twists, percussive attack and dramatic use of silences and hesitations. Saxophonists from Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane to Steve Lacy and Anthony Braxton and trumpeters from Miles Davis and Chet Baker to Woody Shaw and Wallace Roney have covered Monk’s music. Others like salsa king Tito Puente and trumpeter- conguero Jerry Gonzalez and his Fort Apache Band have interpreted Monk’s idiosyncratic rhythms through their own Afro-Cuban prism while the great Andalusian pianist Chano Dominguez has offered a passionate flamenco spin on Monk. What is it about Monk's music that makes it so 'ripe' for interpretation? “It’s because he’s so hip in so many ways!,” says the Valencia-born pianist-composer and current Bay Area resident Alex Conde