Results for "violin"

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

Michelle May

Born: November 22

Ingrid Hagel

Born: January 3

Ingrid, a jazz violinist, singer and songwriter, was born in Tallinn, Estonia, where her musical journey began at a young age. At just six years old, she picked up the violin at Nõmme Music School, and over the years, music became an essential part of her identity. However, her true passion for jazz wasn’t ignited until she attended to Charles Lloyd concert at the Jazzkaar Festival when she was sixteen. That experience shifted her focus from classical music to jazz, marking the beginning of her deep exploration into the world of improvisation and rhythm. Ingrid pursued her formal musical education at the Estonian Academy of Music, but her creative journey soon took her beyond Estonia's borders

Isaias Lubo

Born: December 2, 1980

Diane Monroe

Violinist Diane Monroe bridges the traditions of classical composition and jazz improvisation. Monroe’s traditional recital “infused with the blues”, presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society in the fall of 2005, was received with a standing ovation. Her recital venues also include New York City’s Merkin Hall and Town Hall, Los Angeles’ Schoenberg Hall, and Cleveland’s Severance Recital Hall. Monroe is a Pro Musicis Foundation Recital Sponsorship Award recipient. Monroe is a Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour roster artist. She performs her own solo, duo, trio, and quartet projects, and appears as a guest artist with classical & contemporary chamber ensembles, orchestras, and jazz ensembles throughout the United States