Results for "piano"

Zack Clarke

Born: September 6, 1988

Zack Clarke is a Greek-American pianist and composer living and working in New York City.  Random Acts of Order, his debut album on Clean Feed Records, was released in 2017, followed by his 2018 release of the electro-acoustic album Mesophase.  His third album on the Clean Feed label, Vertical Shores, was released in 2019.  Previous recordings include the electronic album Music For Headphones, and Dialectic, a collaboration with cellist Chris Irvine that features free improvisation based on Bach’s third cello suites. Clarke’s emerging body of work reveals a command of diverse musical styles and a determined pursuit of new ideas through experimentation and improvisation.  His music draws from classical, jazz and electronic music; serving to explore the broader concepts involved in improvised and through-composed music. His newest record Plunge, released August 2nd on Orenda Records, is getting a lot of buzz for its marriage of Jazz and IDM influences and has already been featured on the BBC6 and Jazziz among others.

Jerry Weitzer

Melting Project

Born: April 16, 1982

Rich Hinrichsen

Born: March 26, 1962

Rich was inspired to take up music by his Father Bill who sang songs from musicals and played guitar, performing songs like "Try To Remember" from The Fantasticks. He took up the violin at age 8, switched to the double bass at 11, and began studying the piano at 13. At 15 he played bass for a college vocal jazz group, which included his brother Mike (singing bass), and toured California. In college, Rich (piano, bass) studied with jazz guitarist Al Galante, and led a jazz quintet. In the late 1980s, while in Clemson S.C., he played bass with "Jazz Essence," a trio that included Dick Underwood on piano, and played bebop in the tradition of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, and Bud Powell. He recently recorded an album of songs he wrote over the last 30 odd years, with a few standards thrown into the mix

Carol Stein

Born: June 11

Carol is an optimistic, energetic, life loving person and entertainer! She loves sharing her passion for music! Born in Miami, Florida, Carol began her piano studies at the age of four. She received her Masters degree from the University of Florida with a Thesis on “Special Dental Considerations for Musicians.” Her travels as a musician have spanned the globe performing all over Europe, Asia, and the USA in such places as the Montreux Palace in Switzerland, The Bayerischerhof in Munich, The Oasis Lounge in Hong Kong to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Carol enjoys composing and spontaneous arranging of pieces during a live performance

Allison Crowe

Born: November 16, 1981

"I love singing for people," says Allison Crowe. "It's a way to connect and share with others. Communication is crucial. Just being able to do what I do, to write and sing and perform, makes me feel not only alive, but incredibly lucky. Knowing at any moment everything could change, I don't take one second for granted." "Allison sings with such an intensity of emotion, it's easy to see why she's often quoted as saying 'Why music? Why breathing?'," notes pioneering music blog Muruch. "That kind of artistic passion seems extremely rare these days." Born November 16, 1981 in the harbour city of Nanaimo, BC, Crowe's home since 2005 is Corner Brook, NL

Soner Ersen

Soner Ersen is a London-based jazz pianist, composer, and educator with over 20 years of international experience. He has made significant contributions to numerous projects in roles such as pianist, keyboardist, composer, and educator.

Soner Ersen earned a BA Honours in Jazz and a PGCE in Music from Middlesex University. Throughout his career, he has had the privilege of studying under renowned jazz performers and educators in the UK, including Chris Batchelor, Rob Townsend, Nikki Iles, Garrett Williams, and Steve Rose. Furthermore, he has had the honor of performing alongside esteemed British jazz musicians such as Jim Mullen, Mark Mondesir, Clark Tracy, Mark Lockheart, Tony Kofi, Nigel Price, and Benet Mclean.

Sheldon Zandboer

Sheldon Zandboer is a native of Edmonton, Alberta, and began studying classical piano at the age of four. He studied for 16 years with Gloria Saarinen, Charles Foreman, and Marilyn Engles. He was awarded 1st Prize, three years in a row in the ‘Open Jazz’ category at the Calgary Kiwanis Music Festival. Sheldon first established his musical reputation as a talent into Calgary by working on live to air TV shows with the CBC and CFCN, leading a jazz trio, and also as a multi-keyboardist with the Calgary Stampede “Young Canadians” while still in his teens. Sheldon studied Music Performance/Composition at the University of Calgary before moving to Toronto to study at the highly acclaimed Humber College in the Applied Arts Jazz Program

Matt DeChamplain

Born: September 12

Pianist Matt DeChamplain grew up in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He originally learned about music from a player piano. “My grandparents had a player piano, and I spent hours studying classic compositions, arrangements and solos by by Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton and others. These were masterful pianists, composers and arrangers & I was fascinated by their musicality. They showed remarkable creativity and innovation. They laid the foundation for a lifetime of studying stride and jazz piano.” He furthered his education, first attending The Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, a performing arts magnet school in Hartford, CT

Pedro Neves

Born: 1978

Pedro Neves is a prolific Portuguese jazz pianist and composer, well-known for his acclaimed albums, as a leader of his piano trio or for his contribution to the work of many fellow musicians.

Nuno Catarino (Público journal and aformadojazz.pt), refers to Pedro Neves’s music as “some of the most beautiful and delicate jazz music made in Portugal”, reinforcing his natural predisposition to write songs with well-defined structures. With no boundaries whereas to genre or style, his compositions incorporate different grooves and soundscapes from his vast musical taste.