Results for "piano"

Robert Muller

Born: August 11, 1970

Robert Muller is a jazz pianist. Originally from Portland, Oregon, he studied with Dr. Andrew Hill at PSU and moved to New York City in the early '90s where he was active in the downtown scene and as a sideman in several original bands including underground hip hop artist Pete Miser. He moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2004 where he co-lead the award-winning modern jazz group Kodama Trio, was a professor at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, and appears with regional greats like Alex Murzyn, Pete Acosta Amahl, and Michael Herndon. He's appeared on several albums produced by Grammy-winning guitarist Larry Mitchell, and performed with artists including Nathan East, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, and Steve Morse

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Immanuel Witschi

After 9 years study of classical piano by Hansjoerg Weltin with additional jazz improvisation courses and the participation as a singer boy at the Zurcher Saengerknaben Immanuel Witschi joined the Bernhard Spirig Big-Band first as a saxophonist (his 2nd instrument) and then as the regular pianist of the group for 7 years giving concerts in Switzerland and abroad. For 2 more years he joined the Zurich University Big-Band and attended private lessons with Pianist Stefan Stahel and Vince Benedetti until he took part in the Generations 2000 Masterclass in Frauenfeld (CH). After finishing the studies with the degree of a New Media Designer at the Hochschule fuer Gestaltung und Kunst Zurich he became resident pianist and technician at the Theatre Johana in Zurich and beside that he took part in productions of the Salon Theatre Herzbaracke and did concerts with his instant jazz combo in the Cafe Memphis in Zurich. 2009 Immanuel Witschi held his first fully improvised solo concert in his atelier before he continued a year later with 2 show projects for the Salon Theatre Herzbaracke and weekly bar piano performances at the L'heure bleue cafe in Zurich. 2011 he becomes a professional musician by quitting his career as a web programmer and project manager and gives in July his 2nd fully improvised solo concert in the Café Apart in Zurich.

Becky Archibald

Born: March 11, 1962

Becky Archibald is an award-winning pianist, composer, recording artist, and educator. Spanning solo piano to chamber music to jazz, Becky’s music has taken her far – from Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall (solo debut, 2006) to a California house concert playing Frank Sinatra’s piano, to the Dordogne Jazz Summer School (DJSS) in Monteton, France (composer-in-residence since 2009.) Known for her innovative programming, she produced “Fresh-Faced Jazz” for the Indianapolis Spirit and Place Festival, featuring jazz artists performing inner city children’s first musical compositions, and a live radio concert on WFYI’s “The Classical Connection,” featuring Archibald performing her compositions with members of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, along with a reading by award-winning author and classical music reviewer for the New Yorker Magazine, Alex Ross

Charity Chan

An active member of Montreal’s music community, author-composer-performer Charity Chan is a pianist by training who has had the opportunity to perform and present her works throughout Canada, Europe, Oceania, and the United States. Her live performances emphasize the hidden resonant abilities of the piano, often using alternative performance techniques in the process of live creation A unique voice in the world of contemporary and free improvisation, Charity’s music draws from a wide-array of sonic practices as part of her creative inspiration and development. Furthermore, her compositions and improvisations are strongly rooted in the immediacy of physical gesture and the importance of collaborative communication. While her creative work is primarily in contemporary improvised music, she has also worked and studied extensively in the classical and contemporary classical idioms

Paul Shinn Trio

Born: March 2, 1988

Stefan Aeby

The dream of a perfect world. A world of freedom. Of equality. Of self- realization. A world in flux and rebirth. Curiosity as well as the search for consistency and familiarity. Big becomes small and limits disappear. Everything seems possible… And in the middle of this: a piano trio. A trio which dreams of being free, but still together. A trio with a curious and open spirit that allows limits to disappear without losing its roots. With the perfect match of Michael Stulz on drums and André Pousaz on bass, Stefan Aeby`s piano playing and composing have found a new tonal dimension with a strong personal sound spectrum as well as a real touching and intimate band sound

Heitsi-Eibib Ogun

Born: September 8, 1969

Brooklyn born and raised. Highschool and college years he played with R&B and cover bands. 1994-2001 played with smooth jazz musicians in the NY, CT area. 2001-2006 explored avant-garde music. 2006-2009 moved back and forth, from Philly to Nashville. 2010 Moved to Kentucky. From 2006 to 2013, he has played with straight ahead jazz musicians and jammed in other genres. For more music and contact info, check out soundcloud.com/thomasbirl or facebook.com/tbirl

Marco Mezquida

Born: 1987

Marco Mezquida was born on the island of Menorca in 1987, he begins his studies at the age of eight, graduates in 2009 from the School of Music of Catalonia (ESMUC), where he studied jazz improvisation, classical and contemporary music with Albert Bover, Lluís Vidal, Agustí Fernández, Coll and Juan Ramon de la Rubia. Appreciating his work Mezquida has been awarded two years in a row as ‘Musician of the Year’ 2011 and 2012 by the Association of Musicians Jazz and Modern Catalonia. Settled in Barcelona, at the age of 25 Mezquida is one of the most active pianists in the Catalan jazz scene

Jonah Wei-Haas

Born: September 8, 1989

JONAH WEI-HAAS is an American pianist / keyboardist, producer, arranger, and teacher. He first began playing classical piano at age 8. In high school, he was introduced to Thelonius Monk and promptly fell in love with jazz, funk, rock, and other groove and improvisational based music. In 2007, Jonah received the World Tour Scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music where he studied with incredible musicians and teachers including: Joanne Brackeen, Ray Santisi, Leo Blanco, Eldar Djangirov, Dave Limina, Jamey Haddad, Neil Olmstead, Laszlo Gardony, Mark Whitfield, Tiger Okoshi, and others