Results for "violin"

Eric Clark

Born: February 4, 1981

Canadian violinist and composer Eric Kenneth Malcolm Clark is a prolific performer of new and experimental music, as well as an accomplished free improviser. A recent addition to New York, he spent the past two years in LA studying composition with the musical maverick James Tenney. Mr. Clark has performed throughout Canada, the US, Europe, and Australia, recently completing a tour of Belgium and Oslo with his high octane group Skakk Trio. He also enjoyed a series of performances as violinist with the legendary west coast new music group California EAR Unit last spring 2006. Other notable recent appearances include the 2007 neither/nor festival in Toronto, the 2006 Minimalist Jukebox in Walt Disney Concert Hall, Michael Gordon’s new opera What to Wear and his Symphony Decasia, and the Creative Music Festival at RedCat.

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Loren Leventer

Born: April 5, 1985

Currently a freelance musician and student at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Loren studied with top violin professors at the University of Michigan before coming to New York three years ago. Loren plays jazz, classical, hip-hop, and world music. He is currently playing in String Theory, a unique string group featuring several of his compositions. In the past, Loren has played with Butch Morris, Dave Schroeder, Gil Goldstein, and Lenny Picket among others. He has also been teaching private lessons for several years as well as small music classes. He recorded Bach's D minor Violin Partita last May as his first extensive solo recording project

John Ettinger

With three well-received recordings under his name featuring Tony Malaby, Todd Sickafoose, Scott Amendola, Devin Hoff, Art Hirahara, and Pete Forbes, John has also performed and recorded with an array of noteworthy artists over the years, including Honeycut (on DJ Shadow's Quannum Records); composer/clarinetist Beth Custer (on her CD Vinculum Symphony and the Hans Wendl-produced soundtrack to the 1929 Russian silent film My Grandmother); and vocalist Percy Howard (Incidental Seductions with Living Colour's Vernon Reid, King Crimson's Trey Gunn and This Heat's Charles Hayward)

Lukasz Czekala

Born: 1979

Lukasz Czekala(1979) - violin/electric violin player. A graduate (2006) of Jazz Institute at the Academy of Music in Katowice.

Trina Basu

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paul Anastasio

Born: April 12, 1953

Paul Anastasio began playing the violin at age nine and he was soon drawn to the sounds of fiddle tunes, bluegrass music and hot swing. In his early 20s Paul began studying jazz violin with the great Joe Venuti. His first job on the road was with Merle Haggard's backup band, 'The Strangers'. Following six months with Merle, Paul went to work with the western swing band 'Asleep at the Wheel' and jobs with Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers and Loretta Lynn followed. In 1992 a chance encounter with Mexican violinist Juan Reynoso turned his life upside down ‹ Paul began to travel to southwestern Mexico to study Juan's remarkable regional fiddling style

Jason Kao Hwang

Born: 1957

The music of Jason Kao Hwang (composer/violin/viola) explores the vibrations and language of his history. His compositions are often narrative landscapes through which sonic beings embark upon extemporaneous, transformational journeys. His most recent releases, The Human Rites Trio (w/Andrew Drury and Ken FiLIANO), Conjure (duo with Karl Berger), and Blood, performed by Burning Bridge (octet of Chinese and Western instruments), are receiving critical acclaim. In 2019, 2018, 2013 and 2012, the El Intruso International Critics Poll voted him #1 for Violin/Viola. In 2017 Downbeat Magazine named his quintet recording Sing House (Eunoymus) as one of the Best CDs of the Year

Ken Ford

Electric. A word that describes not only Ken Ford’s violin but aptly describes the man himself, with electrifying and deeply physical live performances that have audiences up on their feet and into the aisles, feeling the music as much as he does, jumping and dancing around on stage. Far from being any quiet instrument, Ken’s infectious energy takes the violin center stage with amazing artistry and creativity, rocking out on the violin with a passion and fervor that rivals the biggest and baddest guitar solos. A wonder to behold on stage, Ken’s evocative playing and passion for strings on the electric violin have enthralled fans of all ages, as well as peers from diverse genres, from jazz to blues, R&B to hip-hop and more

Hugh Marsh

Born: June 5, 1955

Electric violinist Hugh Marsh is widely recognized as Canada's leading improvising violinist. He has toured, recorded or played with Bruce Cockburn, Loreena Mckennitt, Peter Murphy, Robert Palmer, Bonnie Raitt, Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Flea, Miho, Mercan Dede, Jon Hassell, Don Byron, James Blood Ulmer, Ursula Rucker, Andy Milne, Dafnis Prieto, Roberto Occhipinti, Michael Occhipinti, Tagaq, Soul Asylum, Goksel Baktagir, Mary Margaret O'hara, The Henry's, Daniel Lanois, Gregoire Maret, Sinead O'Connor and Random Access among many others. Marsh is also quite active in Los Angeles in the film score world through his longstanding working relationship with the composer Harry Gregson Williams

Csaba Deseo

Born: February 15, 1939

Violinist Csaba Deseo (1939) studied at Béla Bartok Conservatory in Budapest obtaining his diploma in 1961. His jazz-career started in the middle of the 1960s, playing concerts in Hungary. He soon appeared at international jazz festivals in Prague, Warsaw, Berlin, Zagreb, Bled and Ljubljana. His first LP entitled “Four String Tschaba” was recorded 1974 in West Germany by MPS-BASF with German, Swedish and English musicians. Deseo played in different formations with top Hungarian performers - Gabor Szabo, Aladar Pege, Tony Lakatos, Laszlo Gardony, Tommy Vig etc. - and also played with Jean-Luc Ponty, John Lewis, Martin Drew, Dusko Goykovic, Bosko Petrovic and many others. In the period of 1967-1999 Deseo was also member of the Hungarian State Philharmonic Orchestra, with them he toured the world from Europe to Japan to the US. In the last years he has been playing with the best musicians of the young generation from the Budapest jazz-scene