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Paolo Corsini

Born: September 11, 1982

James Collins

James Collins is a young up-and-coming jazz pianist and composer in the Philadelphia area. Born into a musical family, James was exposed to great music of all genres from a very early age. At five years old, James started taking piano lessons. By age 7, he was ear training and refining his perfect pitch. Before leaving elementary school, James had already begun to build his repertoire in jazz and classical music. In 2010, James began pursuing his Bachelor Degree in music studies at Temple University. During his stay at Temple University, James had the honor of studying with jazz greats including Terell Stafford, Bruce Barth, Dick Oatts, Elio Villafranca and others

Harold Lopez-Nussa

Born: July 13, 1983

Was born in Havana, Cuba, on July 13, 1983. At the age of 8, he began his piano studies at the Manuel Saumell Conservatory. In 1995, he goes to study at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory. Some years later he finishes the specialty in Classic Piano and graduates at theHigher Institute of Arts (ISA). During his young career he has performed as solist at Cuba’s most important theatres. He has performed with Cuban National Symphony Orchestra, Holguín Symphony Orchestra, Matanzas Symphony Orchestra and Havana Lyceum Mozartiano. He has played together with outstanding figures of Cuban traditional music and popular music, as well as with known jazz musicians such as Chucho Valdés, David Sánchez, Horacio “El Negro” Hernández, Christian Scott, Stefon Harris, Bobby Carcassés, Elmer Ferrer and Alexander Brown

Metzler

Born: April 7, 1976

Bill Peterson

Dorian May

Born: April 28, 1957

Dorian May’s piano artistry shapes together classic, modern and Latin jazz with Bach harmony, world and poly rhythms and he is equally at home in world music and classical music as he is with hard-swinging bebop, Cuban Salsa and down-home blues. At his shows you may hear anything from classical to TV/movie themes, children’s tunes, traditional jazz, folk songs to Cuban boleros. His diverse collection of influences include a degree in classical piano performance, keyboardist in a touring Emerson, Lake & Palmer tribute band, high-school band director, world percussionist/accompanist at world music and jazz festivals and currently leader & arranger for several Mendocino and Sonoma-county based jazz and Latin bands. When not performing, practicing or teaching he is working on his own unique improvisational system based on George Russell’s Lydian chromatic concept, which he hopes to publish in the near future. The Dorian May Trio includes Dorothea, his wife, on upright bass and veteran coastal drummer Tom Rickard.

Hyuna Park

Born: October 4, 1984

Hyuna Park “Hyuna Park has amazing facility, a beautiful sound and great musical ideas.” — Bruce Barth “Hyuna Park is a beautiful new voice on the piano. She plays with a feeling and maturity that is rare.” — Vincent Herring An award-winning jazz pianist, Hyuna Park deeply connects to New York’s vibrant jazz tradition while simultaneously embracing her Korean and classical roots. She was the 2018 winner of the International Women in Jazz festival as well as the Jimmy Heath Award. She has graced the stage with Grammy award-winners such as Luis Bonilla, Michael Mossman and Vincent Herring and performed at notable venues such as the Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington D.C., the Dizzy Gillespie Auditorium, the United Nations in New York City

Roland Schalken

Born: May 25, 1991

Born in 1991 in Baden/Austria, Roland Schalken began studying classical piano at the age of 9. At the age of 13 he was introduced to blues and jazz by his older brother and his interest for this kind of music was awakened. From this stage on he began to study jazz self-taught. With 18, he began his jazz piano studies at the Joseph Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt/Austria with Prof. Johann Hausl. At the moment he is studying at ArtEZ hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem / Netherlands with Jeroen van Vliet. He attended workshops with Jerry Bergonzi, Gregory Hutchinson, Steve Kirby and Antonio Ciacca.

Mark de Clive-Lowe

Born: August 16, 1974

Musical maverick Mark de Clive-Lowe seems an impossibility at first sight—juggling piano, synths, live sampling and beat making all on-the-fly, brought to life with a casual ease that’s mind-boggling. The Japanese-New Zealander was raised primarily in New Zealand where he learnt piano from a young age developing an avid passion for jazz through his father’s record collection. In high school, he fell in love with Native Tongues hip hop and early UK jungle – laying the foundation for what was to come next… During his hugely formative decade at the epicenter of London’s underground music scene, MdCL helped evolve broken beat alongside some of the UK’s most forward-thinking trailblazers, establishing himself as a new voice in progressive electronic music and leading global tastemaker DJ Gilles Peterson to designate him “the main behind a million great tunes”

Tom Luther

Tom Luther is an improvising composer and pianist working in acoustic and electronic media. He has performed throughout the state of Maine with his modern jazz group TLQ(Tom Luther Quintet), an ambient music trio called Algorithm, and as a soloist. In his work, Luther crosses multiple genres and draws freely from his experiences in numerous musical forms. The messages and stories are universal, and genre is simply a cultural idiom appropriate to a certain group at a certain time. Luther explores these notions through adapting techniques from difference genres to create hybrid works that straddle the worlds of jazz, classical, and ambient music, bending genre and blurring the boundaries that define them. The TLQ has performed live on Maine Public Radio's "Friday Night Jazz", and appeared at the inaugural Free Range Music Festival in Belfast, Maine