Results for "piano"

Leopoldo Osio

Born: January 27, 1985

Jazz Pianist Leopoldo Osio was born in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela. He started playing piano at a very early age, inspired by Venezuelan Traditional Music. He credits George Shearing as being the first musician that got him hooked on jazz when he was 14 years old. Around this time, Leo began studying with jazz musician and promoter Ivo Farfan, who introduced him to jazz trumpet player Julio Mendoza who was to become his principal mentor and develop his interest in bebop. Leo immersed himself in the music of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gilliespie, Chucho Valdes and Paquito de Rivera. At the age of 16, he was invited to perform in the Festival de Jazz en el Orinoco with important Venezuelan musicians like Ivo Farfan, Victor Cuica, Roberto Giron, and later the same year The Jazz Festival El Hatillo with Julio Mendoza Quartet. His interest in music led him to study at several universities in 3 countries to improve his knowledge in different areas of the music, including Jazz and Latin Music at IUDEM-Venezuela, Brazilian Music at Conservatory Souza Lima-Brazil and Newpark Music Centre where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in Jazz Performance (Hons) in 2010

Fulco Ottervanger

Born: July 12, 1984

Fulco Ottervanger is a Dutch Belgian-based multi- instrumentalist, vocalist, composer and improvisor. He has been writing, recording and performing songs and compositions since his early youth. He graduated as a jazz pianist and studied modern classical composition. He is composer and bandleader of contemporary jazz trio De Beren Gieren, krautpop band STADT and drums/keyboard duo BeraadGeslagen. He is also involved in different theatre and dance projects.

David Arnay

Born: June 27

Pianist David Arnay, born in New York City, spent his formative professional years in Ithaca, New York. His keyboard work was integral to a series of original musical projects including a lengthy collaboration in the eclectic Zobo Funn Band with influential guitarist/composer David Torn. In Los Angeles, Arnay was recruited in 1994 by jazz woodwind legend Bennie Maupin for his new quintet. The group thrived for several years, performing Arnay's compositions along with Maupin's. “Playing with Bennie brought me to one of the coolest branches of the jazz family tree. He really helped me to listen more carefully, to leave more space and respect silence

Per Danielsson

Jazz pianist, composer, arranger, writer and educator, Per Danielsson is was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He performs with The Jazz Professors and his own Per Danielsson Trio, among others. His projects include trio and quartet recordings with jazz great Danny Gottlieb. He can also be heard on the new SeaBreeze release "Here We Are" The Jazz Surge, and the newly released "Dear Old Stockholm", recorded in Stockholm, Sweden, with saxophonist Jack Wilkins, featuring revered Swedish trumpeter Jan Allen. He has formed the Per Danielsson 4Tet and partnered with Jan Allen in the Per Danielsson & Jan Allen Group. After completing formal piano studies, which included lessons with Robert Malmberg and world-renowned jazz pianist Bengt Hallberg, his love of jazz brought him across the ocean to attend the internationally acclaimed North Texas State University

Sid Hille

Born: 1961

Born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1961, Sid finished high school in 1980. He traveled for several years, living in the United States and in India, until he settled in the Netherlands in 1986. He enrolled at the Utrecht School of the Arts in 1987. He studied piano, jazz improvisation and composition with Bert van den Brink, Jasper van't Hof, Willy Muller and Wim Witteman and graduated in 1993 as a Master of Music. Since summer 1994 he has been living in Finland, where he was head of the jazz department at the Ostrobothnia Conservatory in Kokkola from 1994-2002. Next to his reputation as a passionate and successful jazz eductator Sid has in recent years developed a good name as a performer, recording artist and producer as well. In 2000 he published 13 Jazz pieces for piano, a book with a collection of his compositions for teaching purposes. He has performed in solo concerts and with his quartet on festivals and tours through Finland, Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany

Cal Bezemer

Born: December 9, 1936

Piano, Synth, B3, Vocals. Mus. Dir., Teacher, Composer, Song Writer. With: (Jazz) Singers: Herb Jeffries, Al Jarreau, Yma Sumac, “Scatman” Crothers, Anita O’Day, Barbara McNair, Eddie Jefferson, Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson, Linda Hopkins, Issac Hayes, Paula Kelly, Phil Crosby Jr, Bill Farrell, Art Lund, Alan Jones Drums: Alphonse Mouzon, Roy McCurdy, Donald Dean, Clarence Johnston, Frank Wilson, Earl Palmer, Rusty Jones Bass: Henry Franklin, Andy Simpkins, John Heard, ‘Senator’ Eugene Wright, Louie Spears, Walter Booker, Larry Gray, Rufus Reed, Putter Smith, Vernon Martin, Al McKibbon Sax: Azar Lawrence, John Klemmer, Teddy Edwards, Bennie Maupin, David Sanborn, Zane Musa, Von Freeman, Med Flory Guitar: Doug McDonald, Barry Zweig, Ron Anthony, Skip Heller Groups/Bands: Four Lads, Mills Bros., H B Barnum, Ray McKinley (Glenn Miller Band), Ralph Marterie Dancers: Chester Whitmore, Arthur Duncan, Gene Bell, Donald O’Connor, Suzanne Verdal (Pop): Ink Spots, Coasters, Drifters, Olympics, Little Eva, 'Wolfman' Jack

Stefan Rusconi

Born: February 14, 1979

Jawanza Kobie

Born: March 4, 1955

Jawanza Kobie would simply like to be known as a composer in the truest sense of the word. Ever since he was young boy he idolized the music of Beethoven, George Gershwin, Aaron Copeland and began learning to notate his compositions at nine years of age. Born and raised in West Philadelphia, he started taking piano lessons in his neighborhood at age six after his mother discovered that he could replicate on his own what his older brother had been taught in his piano lessons right after his brother had finished practicing.

As a teenager, he continued his education in music at the famed Settlement Music School in Philadelphia where he was first introduced to structure and the rules of composition. At this time the musical influences that he heard on the radio and records of the day were impossible to ignore. Jazz music had always been a dominant force in his development ever since his father first introduced him to it at a very young age. However, funk, soul, pop, rock, and even folk made a major and indelible impact on this musical young man. His early influences began with Oscar Peterson, Ramsey Lewis, and Bobby Timmons in jazz piano and later he discovered Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, the great Art Tatum and others. The Beatles, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Motown, Atlantic, and Stax recording artist, Sly and the Family Stone as well as Elmer Bernstein, Quincy Jones and other film composers were and still are an inspiration. His current influences have grown to include Hip-Hop beats. He has written music for the “Freedom Theatre” (in Philadelphia) plays and musicals and toured briefly with their productions.

Sebastian Lexer

Sebastian Lexer’s musical life is focused on free improvisation and the experimental. The role of technology has become an increasingly integral part in his music best reflected in his creation of and performances with the Piano+, an electroacoustic extension to the acoustic piano. His solo CD Dazwischen and various projects with various musicians show the exciting sound-worlds explored ‘in between’ the acoustic piano and the electroacoustic modification thereof. Sebastian's works freelance as a musician, audio engineer and producer, interactive software developer and lecturer. A regular performance schedule has included concerts and radio broadcast in Europe and the US. The computerised augmentation of the acoustic piano, the piano+, has developed from a combination of conventional and extended playing techniques, prepared piano and electronic real-time modifications of its sounds

Sebastian Spanache

Born: November 24, 1984

Romanian jazz pianist and composer Sebastian Spanache started his musical journey in his home town Timisoara, where he began playing the piano at age 5, and then took up the study of jazz in ninth grade while attending the National College of Arts ‘Ion Vidu’. While still studying classical piano in high-school, Sebastian founded his first jazz/funk ensemble at age 14, later to have toured all over Romania and win numerous prizes at student competitions. 

After college, Sebastian shifted his playing and compositional directions towards a more modern edge- leading and composing for several student latin-jazz and funk ensembles