Results for "piano"

Michelle Pollace

Born: August 3, 1968

Whether performing her own compositions or her arrangements of standards, Bay Area native Michelle Pollace [poh-LAH-chi] honors the roots of jazz, Brazilian, and Afro-Cuban music while adding a new voice. Her performance highlights creative arrangements of jazz melodies set to alluring Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythms, as well as original compositions from Michelle’s critically acclaimed CD “New Beginning.” Michelle’s love of melody and affinity for well-structured compositions creates a classic sound, of which critic Mark Tucker of Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange writes, “I’m highly reminded of Ahmad Jamal’s ..

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Elias Stemeseder

Born: 1990

Born in Salzburg, Austria in 1990, Elias lived in Berlin from 2010 and moved to New York in 2015. Besides his main instrument, the acoustic piano, he also plays synthesizers. He performs in a variety of musical idioms ranging from the song-oriented music of Jim Black's trio to contemporary classical pieces by John Zorn to the electric music of Eyebone.

Current projects include collaborations with John Zorn (John Zorn's Bagatelles), the Greg Cohen Quintet, Philipp Gropper's "Philm", Jim Black's "Malamute" Anna Webber's "Percussive Mechanics", Robert Landfermann Quintet and "OTIS+WEDDING".

Joseph L Cartwright

Born: December 29, 1954

Pianist Joe Cartwright makes his home in Mission, Kansas and is recognized as a proponent of ‘Kansas City Jazz.’ He is a graduate of the UMKC Conservatory of Music and is currently the musical director for the critically acclaimed NPR radio show '12th Street Jump.' Joe has performed on and produced numerous recordings. Some of his credits include work with jazz luminaries Eddie Harris, Christian McBride, Jeff Hamilton, John Clayton, Karrin Allyson, Jimmy Witherspoon, Kevin Mahogany and Mel Torme. Cartwright has performed for audiences in Africa, the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia as part of the USIA/Kennedy Center Jazz Ambassador Touring Program

Alexandra Ravald

”Honey, you don´t seem to know me that well. I’ll give you lots of time to learn.” Så inleder Alexandra Ravald sitt debutalbum. - Låten handlar om att ha tid att lära känna någon, man behöver ge saker tid i början av relationen. Frasen kändes som en bra titel på min första skiva. Allt jag någonsin har lärt mig om musik ligger i grunden. Time to learn är äntligen här. Ett debutalbum som flirtar med både jazz- och poppubliken, en sorts populärjazz som de flesta kan lyssna på. Musiken präglas av tankar om livet i ett kallt och mörkt Sverige och med ett jazzvridet tonspråk som har en lättsam och lekfull känsla

Fabrizio Puglisi

Fabrizio Puglisi is a pianist and composer. In 1987 he began studying at DAMS (Department of Art, Music and Performing Arts) in Bologna, where he currently lives. In 1995 he graduated with honors, writing a thesis about Cecil Taylor. From 1997 to 2003 he spent long periods of time in Amsterdam, where he collaborated with such musicians as Tristan Honsinger, Han Bennink, Ernst Glerum, Ab Baars, Sean Bergin, Ernst Reijseger, Tobias Delius, and the Tetzepi big band. He has collaborated with, among others, Steve Lacy, Louis Sclavis, Lester Bowie, Don Moye, David Murray, Hamid Drake, John Zorn, Don Byron, William Parker, Butch Morris, Kenny Wheeler, Enrico Rava, George Russell, Dave Liebman, Ronnie Cuber, Michel Godard, Deus Ex Machina, Roy Paci, Alvin Curran, Mark Dresser, Paolo Fresu, Steve Grossman, Flavio Boltro, Cristina Zavalloni, Gianluca Petrella, Italian Instabile Orchestra, Keith Tippett, Gunter Sommer, Mattias Schubert, Alfio Antico

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Mircea Tiberian

Born: May 4, 1955

Mircea Tiberian is a jazz musician and professor of music at the National University of Music in Bucharest. He coordinates the Jazz Department, which he set up in 1991. Tiberian spent his childhood and adolescence in Sibiu, Transylvania where he made his debut at the International Jazz Festival in 1974. He holds a doctorate in music. He currently lives in Bucharest. He has performed the world over with such musicians as Larry Coryell, Tomasz Stanko, Herb Robertson, John Betsch, Ed Shuller, Nicholas Simion, Adam Pieronczyk, Maurice de Martin, Theo Jörgensmann and the Romanians Johnny Raducanu, Aura Urziceanu, Anca Parghel and Dan Mandrila.

Rob Stringer

Rob Stringer started playing on the North West Jazz scene around 2004, after studying music at University in Liverpool. He took lessons with highly regarded UK jazz pianist Les Chisnall and also studied piano technique in New York with Eleanor Hancock of the Taubman Institute. Rob currently tours extensively across Europe and North America, with ‘Brit Floyd’, a Pink Floyd stage production. He also has his own jazz group, the Bobby Swing Band, in which he sings and plays piano, and in which the other members of The Weave have performed. He has done much session studio and live work and appearances include Later with Jools Holland, BBC Radio 2 Jonathan Ross and Mark Lamarr shows. A real highlight for Rob was performing at Stella McCartney’s 08 Fashion Show to an audience including Sir Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison and Sir George Martin all seated in the front row!

Wulf Winkelmüller

Born: January 7, 1976

geb am 7.1.1976 in Wilhelmshaven Unterricht in Jever bei Gundolf Semrau bis 1995 erste Aufführungen: Musical „Hair“ u. Songs der Drei-Groschen-Oper,... Umzug nach Göttingen 1995 dort Biologie studiert und nebenbei musikalische Projekte gesucht, Gründung der überregional erfolgreichen Band „Soulcake & the Horns deelite“ mit Sascha Münnich Durch einen initiatischen Paris-Trip dann das Herz entscheiden lassen für Musik. Infolge begonnen, als Klavierlehrer zu arbeiten und Gründung der eigenen Jazz-Performance Band "gut feeling" (Visuals Arts, Lesungen und Improvisation mit eigenen Souljazz-Kompositionen) und Engagements als Korrepetitor am Deutschen Theater Göttingen (Für „Die Fledermaus“) 2004 Umzug nach Berlin, um die Hauptstadt zu erproben. Viele neue Projekte u.a