Results for "piano"

Edgardo Plasencia

Born: December 15

I am a music composer and producer. I have spent my formative years intensively experiencing the development of the greatest pop and rock music of the music history. After that, I decided to become a musician , increasingly learning in depth the intelectual and emotional side of the classical music, jazz in all its forms , and avantgarde orchestral and chamber music. I became a composer of so called academic music , but instead of following blindly the dogma and ideologies related to the avantgarde music , I let myself be nurtured by other music areas , mainly modern jazz and electroacoustic music and by the newest expressions of visual art. At this stage of my life I'm highly involved in the composing and playing of jazz music : bebop, modal jazz and jazz rock fusion mainly.

LisaUllén

Born: October 15, 1964

Contact lisaullen /@/ gmail.com Biography A native of Seoul, Korea, Lisa Ullén grew up in the northern part of Sweden, and is based in Stockholm. She is a graduate of the Royal Musical Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, where she studied classical piano in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Since the late 1990s, she has devoted herself entirely to improvised music, in the form of free jazz as well as avant garde and contemporary classical and experimental music. A versatile player with a singular musical vision, Ullén has repeatedly proven her ability to imprint her absolute sense for tonal texture on whatever musical context she appears in. Internationally recognized as a distinctive and uncompromising musician and composer, Ullén over the last decade has produced more than fifteen albums. Ullén has collaborated extensively with many well-known Swedish artists and dancers, and has also scored several dramatic productions

Klas Nevrin

Born: June 2, 1972

Klas Nevrin is a pianist, keyboardist and composer, also an associate professor in improvisation at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Currently he leads a 3-year artistic research project on collective improvisation (www.musicindisorder.se), as well as an international Octet "The Revoid Ensemble" (www.revoidensemble.com). Klas Nevrin is perhaps best well known for his work with saxophonist Fredrik Ljungkvist’s free jazz groups Yun Kan 5 and Yun Kan 10 - the latter’s CD being acclaimed one of the best releases of 2013 by Downbeat. It was also called “a masterful achievement′′ by All About Jazz

Dan Redner

Dan is an active musical director, pianist, & educator in the Austin community and the owner of Dan Redner Music LLC, teaching weekly piano lessons to 60+ students of all ages and experience levels, in addition to presenting various concerts and clinics to students at schools and universities.  Dan is active nationally as a contributing member to the Austin District Music Teachers Association (ADMTA), the Texas Music Teachers Association (TMTA), the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), the Jazz Education Network (JEN), the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and American Artists Project (AAP).  Recent performances include the National Broadway Tour of Disney’s the Little Mermaid, Disney’s Aladdin the Musical, and Tina Fey’s smash hit Mean Girls the Musical at Bass Concert Hall, in addition to newly released albums The Heights Life and Redner/Durham/Parks Live to Two.  Last summer, Dan performed at the famed Rose Theater @ Jazz At Lincoln Center in NYC as the MD & Pianist for the Broadway musical revue, Sing out. 
 
As a 2007 alumnus of Grand Valley State University (hometown - Grand Rapids, Michigan), Dan was a founding member of the New Music Ensemble.  Their album of Steve Reich’s composition Music for 18 Musicians, (Innova Recordings label) was named among the top recordings of 07’ by the New York Times, L.A. Weekly, The Rest Is Noise, and New York Magazine while reaching the top of iTunes’ and Amazon’s classical charts and spending eleven weeks on Billboard’s top 25 classical crossover chart.  The ensemble performed at the 2007 “Bang on a Can” New Music Festival at the World Financial Center in NYC and are featured on National Public Radio.
 
Previously, Dan performed around the world for 6+ years with Royal Caribbean International, Norwegian Cruise Line, and Azamara Cruises, directing various Broadway, revue, and cabaret shows.  In August 2011, Dan relocated to Austin, Texas in pursuance of a Master’s Degree in Jazz Studies & Performance from the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin.  Dan can be heard performing solo, with the Dan Redner Trio, the Gil Del Bosque Quintet, and with Austin’s premier 10-piece funk, soul, & Motown group the Matchmaker Band.
 
Credits include: Maria Schneider, Ann Hampton Callaway, The Drifters, The Coasters, Tony Tillman, Yakov Smirnov, Marty Allen, Lenny Welch, Toby Beau, Pearl Kaufman and countless other singers, comedians, and stage acts.  Dan continuously shares the spotlight with the best musicians Austin has to offer, performing at weddings, receptions, churches, clubs, restaurants, theaters, and more. A tour schedule, media, lesson information, and more can be found via www.danrednermusic.com. 

Psychic Equalizer

PSYCHIC EQUALIZER, the project lead by Cantabrian pianist and composer Hugo Selles, has released a new EP. Madrid (or Suite For The Solitary Contemporary Citizen) saw the light on 28th April on iTunes. While the first EP Memories From A Cold Place was inspired by the countryside around Selles’ hometown, this second work focuses on the loneliness of living in a big city. The sound of this new production incorporates elements of rock and jazz, without leaving the influence of electronic and ambient music established by the previous EP. Selles’ pianos and keyboards are joined by the guitar sounds of Quico Duret, renowned guitarist of the Madrid indie scene

Jim Robbins

Born: October 2, 1965

Reminiscent of solo pianists like Liz Story, Lyle Mays, or Keith Jarrett, Jim Robbins plays with an expressiveness that has lead listeners to call his solo piano work "absolutely breathtaking, "remarkable," and "beautiful." His newest CD, "Only Two Things," has been called a "contemplative masterpiece."

Irene Scardia

Born: October 6, 1966

Irene Scardia, pianist, composer indefinable in her originality, lyricism of her sound arrives directly in its technical quality, without getting lost, the essence. Her first album for solo piano, produced by Workin’ label, entitled "I Giorni del vento", was presented in February 2010 on the italian Radio 3 program, Battiti. With an artistic background that sees her going, in addition to regular studies music, in significant experiences in the field of dance and theater, Irene Scardia, realizes some multimedial productions, Il tempo d’Irene (2002), Quattro pagine di me (2003) , Meredith à rebours (2004), I giorni del vento (2008), Quello che so del cielo (2009)

Ashley Henry

Born: November, 1991

Ashley Henry is one of a new generation of musicians that have been raised with a wide range of influences. Ashley Henry – born November 1991 when the last Kuwait oil fires extinguished, Miles Davis passed away, Gang Star released ‘Step in the Arena’, South Africa held its first cricket international in 20 years, PC World opened in the UK, Wynton Marsalis releases ‘Blue Interlude’, Freddie Mercury departed, Branford Marsalis finishes ‘The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born’ and the first performance of Alan Bennett’s The Madness of George III took place. Born and raised in South London, England, United Kingdom, Ashley Henry’s listening and visual styles, range from Sinead Harnett, Digital Underground, ZuZu, Margot Fonteyn, Era Istrefi, Freddie Mercury, and Dreezy – through to having fans that include the abstract artist Gareth Nyandoro, being an advocate for the legend pianist Abdullah Ibrahim…and being a big 6LACK fan. In 2016 Ashley Henry graduated from Royal Academy of Music, performed with Jason Marsalis and collaborated with legends Terence Blanchard and Jean Toussaint

Philipp Rüttgers

Born: March 21, 1981

Philipp received the composition assignment for the North Sea Jazz Festival 2018 The jury, consisting of Gijsbert Kamer (music journalist de Volkskrant), Cyriel Pluimakers (jazz programmer and a delegate for the VIP), and Kim Bloem (programmer North Sea Jazz), was unanimous in selecting Rüttgers for the Composition Assignment for this year. “We are impressed by the large wealth of ideas and composing style of Rüttgers, which is colorful, dynamically varied and also has an interesting rhythm.” For the Composition Assignment Rüttgers will take the listener to revisit fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, giving them voice in a composition entitled Twists Of H.C

Sarah McKenzie

After enchanting jazz fans with her 2015 Impulse! Records debut, We Could Be Lovers, Sarah McKenzie returns with the sensational follow-up, Paris in the Rain. Like before, the 28-year-old, Melbourne, Australia-born singer, pianist, composer and arranger teams with the acclaimed Brian Bacchus – who has produced classics for such stars as Norah Jones, Lizz Wright, and Gregory Porter – to deliver a gripping program of jazz classics and originals – all of which present McKenzie’s incredible musicality in glamorous glory. McKenzie moved to Paris last year after graduating from Boston’s Berklee College of Music