Results for "piano"

Ted Brancato

Ted Brancato is a musician with four decades of experience in the music business. Since his early days, growing up in Seattle, WA, Ted has been actively performing, composing, arranging and recording music. Ted earned his bachelors degree in music from the University of Washington. While in Seattle Ted quickly became one of the most "in demand" pianists, both in the recording studio and in the jazz clubs. Ted was called on to accompany many jazz headliners that came through town—jazz greats such as Milt Jackson, Eddie Jefferson, Ernie Watts and Ernestine Anderson. In the almost 30 years that Ted has worked in and around NYC, he has honed his skills as an arranger, composer, performer, conductor, and accompanist

Bonginkosi Winston

Born: April 2, 1977

Bonginkosi’s Quartet JAZZ AND AFRICAN MUSIC NIGHTS VUSI KHUMALO AND BONGINKOSI MADONSELA The Jazz and African Music Nights hosted the 24th show of the series featuring the legendary Vusi Khumalo and the young and well-groomed jazz pianist Bonginkosi Mandonsela. The show started with the performance by Bonginkosi Mandonsela who with a four (4) piece band mesmerized the audience with scintillating performances on grand piano and keyboards, saxophone, Electric bass and Drums. The quartet played like seasoned professionals based on all the band’s experience of playing at highly acclaimed indoor and outdoor events as well as the acquired experiences as learners at different music institutions. Bonginkosi accompanied by the band played original compositions which gained favor and acclaim from the audience that gave them a standing ovation at the end of the 45 minutes set

Rabih Rihana

Rabih Rihana is a pianist and composer who is well respected by many fellow musicians around the globe and backed with a loyal fan base that stretches from California into eastern Europe.

He attended the prestigious Berklee College of Music which is known for having attendees such as Sting, Billy Joel, Phil Collins, Aerosmith, Sarah Mclaughlin, John Mayer, Prince, Dream Theater, Chick Corea , along with many more musical icons. It is at Berklee where Rabih discovered new dimensions in music composition and performance techniques, which helped him create his own unique style, not only as a composer but as a performer as well. While in the Boston, he played and recorded many fusion projects with some of the city's most explosive and exciting musicians .

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Jorge Pacheco

Nace el 26 de agosto en Juchitán de Zaragoza Oaxaca. Desde temprana edad mostró vocación por la música. Su primer acercamiento fue a la guitarra para posteriormente empezar sus estudios en forma al piano a los 12 años de edad. Estudió piano en la casa de la cultura de su ciudad natal y posteriormente de forma particular con el Profesor Héctor E. Carrasco. Tuvo la oportunidad de participar con grupos de música regional pero no como pianista sino tocando marimba, formo un grupo versátil con el que estuvo trabajando varios años y participo en bandas de covers y grupos de rock, participo muchos años en el grupo de alabanza de su congregación dando muestra de su gran versatilidad como instrumentista

Bob Wijnen

Born: August 3, 1971

Bob Wijnen is a pianist of great sensitivity and depth. Much in demand as an accompanist, he is known for having some of the best ears around, as well as being an elegant and adventurous soloist who has absorbed a great deal of the history of jazz piano. He has toured Indonesia (Java Jazz Festival), Michigan USA, and Iceland, and can be heard on CDs by Maygus (Double Moon Records), Sanna van Vliet – Insight (Munich Records), Klemens Marktl Quartet featuring Jasper Blom – The Challenge (Jazz’n’Arts), Triplicate featuring Eric Ineke and Equinox with Dutch jazz giants Sjoerd Dijkhuizen and Marcel Serierse. Wijnen continues to grow as a pianist

Dave Thomas

The music of David Bennett Thomas has been called "immediately engaging ...meticulously structured ... playful, soulful, technically dazzling, and acutely communicative" (Philadelphia Music Makers); "convincing on both structural and emotional levels ... music that speaks with no pretension" (The Classical Source); and "concise and comprehensible, though he doesn't talk down to the listener or subscribe to any isms ... this is a composer with an individual voice" (American Record Guide). He has written in many genres, including works for chorus, solo voice, orchestra, chamber groups, piano, and jazz ensembles

June Thomas

Born: October 31

June Thomas is a jazz vocalist/pianist who has played with regional jazz and r&b artists for over twenty years, including PF & the Flyers, Rissmiller/Thomas jazz group, Mike Dugan, Maria Woodford, Todd Wolfe and others. She has completed her MM in Jazz Studies degree at the University of the Arts as well as having completed Level I of Somatic Voicework training under instruction by Jeanette LoVetri . She is a student of Hindustani vocalist Arati Shah-Yukich and has studied Indian vocal mnemonics with Philadelphia percussionist Lenny Seidman. Her jazz studies include private piano lessons with Joanne Brackeen & John Scully

Tolga Bedir

Born: July 9, 1979

In the early years of his conservatory education Tolga Bedir’s success attracted the attention of his teachers and he gained their full support which later would play an important role in his future musical development. At age 14, he discovered his interest in jazz music and began to work on his own jazz projects. In the following years he discovered one of the world's leading jazz pianist’s, Aydın Esen's music, which would later be a guiding light for his own jazz works. In 2005 he was accepted to one of the world's leading schools for jazz music, the Berklee College of Music, with a 45% scholarship