Results for "violin"

Gregor Huebner

Born: May 23, 1967

Gregor Huebner is an award-winning composer and violinist, celebrated by audiences and critics alike for his visionary work across genres. His music has been described by The New York City Jazz Record as "challenging and vivid... seamlessly incorporat[ing] chamber elements with avant garde jazz," while All About Jazz describes him as "a virtuoso with broad experience in large and small classical ensembles." Huebner's recent El Violin Latino, an album exploring the role of the violin in traditional Latin American music, was praised by The Wall Street Journal as "by turns sexy and sly, impassioned and dreamy, his collection of well-known tunes, unexpected arrangements and original compositions brings together far-flung members of the fiddle diaspora." 
As a composer, Huebner's unique musical voice variously integrates improvisation, experimental notation, traditional counterpoint, pop song structures, post-tonal gestures and innovative performance techniques within formal compositional frameworks

Matt Holborn

Born: August 21, 1998

“Amongst other young jazz violinists in the UK, Matt stands out with his instantly recognisable sound, a good use of violin techniques and intelligent musicality.” Tim Kliphuis -Internationally renowned jazz violinist and educator. Matt Holborn is a violinist based in Leeds,UK. Matt’s main focus is jazz but he is well versed in many forms of improvised, contemporary and world music. Matt began playing the violin in 1996 with a brief stint of lessons through the schools music service. Matt soon found salvation with Diana Catherine ARCM (Hons), LRAM and began learning classical violin and technique

Tobias Preisig

Tobias Preisig, born in 1981 in Zurich, was admitted as the first violin student at the “Swiss Jazz School” in Berne at the age of seventeen. In 1998, soloist awards from several festivals in Switzerland. Performances with the Swiss Youth Jazz Orchestra and in 1999 he represents the Swiss Jazz School at the IASJ (International Association of Schools of Jazz) in Paris. Music study at the New- School University, Jazz Department in New York City, completed his degree with “Bachelor of Fine Arts” in 2002. In 2000, he was invited to join the Masterclass at the Ravinia Jazz Festival in Chicago

Cecile Broche

Cécile Broché studied classical music, contemporary music, improvisation, and jazz. She graduated at the Conservatory of Liège and Brussels (Belgium), where she got a First Prize of Violin and a First Prize of Chamber music and from Didier Lockwood's Jazz School in Paris. Collaborations with Barre Philips, Garrett List, Frederic Rzewski, Russ Lossing, Satoshi Takeishi,… As a violinist, Cécile Broché has been involved in many different projects, including contemporary music ensembles, free music, jazz, working with dancers, with actors, and solo performances. Her work as a composer includes the use of electronics, and an extensive research on the possibilities of electric violin with effects. As a teacher, she has developed a pedagogical concept nourished by her various experiences , where one encounters improvisation , creativity , and composed music (workshops). She participated in the albums “From this day forward” with Diederik Wissels, “Worlds” with Erwin Vann (featuring Kenny Wheeler) and appears on 2 albums of the Garrett List Ensemble : “Voyage” and The “The unbearably Light”.

David Schulman

Born: May 13

By turns nocturnal, reflective, funky, and cinematic, the music of electric violinist and composer David Schulman is a weave of jazz harmonies, shimmering orchestral textures, and frolicsome grooves. His sound has been called “mysterious and beautiful” by the Washington Post. Selections from David’s debut album, “Quiet Life Motel,” have been heard nationally on NPR and frequently licensed by choreographers and podcasters. The Washington City Paper has described his music as “spontaneous and completely unique.” An avid collaborator with modern dance companies, David has created, performed and recorded original dance scores heard at venues including The Kennedy Center, PS21, Dance Place, The Alden Theater, Dance Exchange, Kunst-Stoff Arts, The Clarice Smith Center, and The Paul Taylor Studios

Dominique Pifarély

Dominique Pifarély modernized jazz violin, combining extraordinary technical skills with an inclusive idea of music-making. He has been soon very in-demand as a straight jazz player, but was soon in some of the more adventurous groups in Europe, too, including Mike Westbrook’s band (On Dukes’ Birthday, hatART) and the Vienna Art Orchestra. In 1979, he began touring with bassist Didier Levallet and guitarist Gérard Marais as a trio. In the 1980s he began leading his own bands, as can be heard on 2 records, Insula Dulcamara (1988) et Oblique (1992). In 1985, Pifarély started to work with reedist Louis Sclavis and in 1992, they formed the Sclavis/Pifarély Acoustic Quartet, featuring guitarist Marc Ducret and bassist Bruno Chevillon, and recorded for ECM

Jennifer Choi

Hailed by The New York Times as an “excellent violinist...soulful, compelling,” Jennifer Choi has performed internationally in venues like the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., the RAI National Radio in Rome, Hong Kong National Radio, the Mozartsalle in Vienna since giving her Carnegie Hall debut in 2000. A prominent chamber musician, she has performed for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan and Guggenheim Museums series, Ravinia Festival, Caramoor Festival, and has championed over 100 new music works including premieres written for her by some of today's most prolific composers like John Zorn, Vijay Iyer, and Randall Woolf

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Rayna Gellert

Born: December 15, 1975

Rayna Gellert plays her great-grandfather’s fiddle—the same one he was playing in 1917 when, as a Hungarian orchestral musician aboard an ocean liner, he wowed the U.S. Ambassador with a rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and earned an invitation to America.
Rayna’s father played that fiddle too. The honest inheritor of his family’s musical legacy, Dan Gellert took a job as a meter reader, immersed himself in the old, weird music of America, and became the greatest fiddler you’ve never heard of. Then it was Rayna’s turn. She picked up the instrument when she was 10, recorded her first album of fiddle tunes at 24, joined the celebrated string band Uncle Earl, and played her great-grandfather’s fiddle on recordings she made with John Paul Jones, Robyn Hitchcock, and Loudon Wainwright III. With all the weight of history attached to that fiddle, it’s no wonder Rayna needed to lay it down to find her own voice. “I was raised in a household where traditional music was an obsession

Teresa Broadwell

Born: August 19, 1956

Vocalist and jazz violinist Teresa Broadwell is formally trained, holding a BM from the Crane School of Music, and an MA in Jazz Studies from the College of St. Rose. Her vocal influences include: Lambert, Hendricks and Ross; Eddie Jefferson; King Pleasure; Sarah Vaughan; Betty Carter; Ella Fitzgerald; and Anita O'Day. On fiddle, she draws from Stuff Smith, Joe Venuti, Matt Glaser, and Stephan Grappelli. Other past recordings include: "Sunny Side of the Street," with the "New Moon Swing Band," (a group that performed on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show) and "Everything's Jake," featuring her swing band “Thrivin' on A Riff." Broadwell moved to the Capital Region in the early ’80’s , where she formed her own groups, performing at concerts, festivals, radio and television shows, and jazz clubs in the greater Northeast