Results for "violin"

Todd Reynolds

TODD REYNOLDS (NYC, NY), composer, conductor, arranger and violinist, is a longtime member of Bang On A Can, Steve Reich and Musicians and Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project . His commitment to genre-bending and technology-driven innovation in music has produced innumerable collaborations with artists that regularly cross musical and disciplinary boundaries, regularly placing him in venues from clubs to concert halls around the world. A forerunner in the expansion of the violin beyond its classical and 'wood-bound' tradition, Reynolds electrifies in concert, weaves together composed and improvised segments, and makes use of computer technology and digital loops to sculpt his sounds in real time, seamlessly integrating minimalist, pop, Jazz, Indian, African, Celtic and indigenous folk musics into his own sonic blend

Bill Stokes

Born: September 3, 1954

Bill Stokes has worked as a professional musician for 30 years. He was a violinist with the Florida West Coast Symphony from 1976-2000. During this time he was also concertmaster of the Sarasota Pops for 3 years, played with the Vermont Symphony for their summer seasons 1987-1988, and maintained a busy free-lance schedule. He was hired by touring shows, and performed with such artists as Sammy Davis Jr., Judy Collins, Steve Allen, Ray Price, and George Shearing. He played in dozens of musicals, for hundreds of performances. He also contracted ensembles for events, weddings, and gigs of all kinds. In 2000 Bill relocated to Keene, NY and devoted two years to the study of jazz guitar, with the phenomenal Joe Gitto

Lissette Torres

Bachelor of Arts in Music-University of Puerto Rico Master of Music Education-Florida State University Master of Violin Performance-University of Akron Participant at the Texas Tech University Advanced Orchestral Conducting Summer Workshop Have freelanced and performed with the following artists: Gilberto Santa Rosa, The Moody Blues, Ray Price Performed solo recitals in colleges and universities and performed with numerous symphonies as a classical violinist.

Csaba Deseö

Born: February 15, 1939

Violinist Csaba Deseo (1939) studied at Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, got his diploma in 1961. His jazz-career started in the middle of the 1960s, beside 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. Between 1967-1999 he was also member of the Hungarian State Philharmonic Orchestra, with them he toured the world from Japan to the US and of course whole Europe. In the last years he is playing with the best musicians of the young generation from the Budapest jazz-scene

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