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Lisanne Tremblay

Lisanne Tremblay is an absolutely unique violinist and composer. Her approach to melody, rhythm and improvising is striking and her music has a rare level of intensity and energy. Described as an imaginative and agile Quebecoise violinist by JazzTimes, she has shared the stage with gifted musicians such as Danilo Pérez, Greg Osby, Rafael Zaldivar, and John Korsrud. This artist’s daring music creates new possibilities for her instrument within contemporary jazz. Lisanne Tremblay’s debut album was created from a place of deep love for music and improvisation. It documents her relentless quest for a new language and incorporates elements from bebop to modern jazz in a way that has never been heard on the violin

Rick Shryock

Born: 1952

Marielle de Rocca-Serra

Born: March 15

Marielle de Rocca-Serra is a violinist, vocalist and actor born in France in the early eighties. After completing her classical education in conservatory programs in Nice, Paris and Rotterdam, she joined the hot jazz community in Paris where she learned the specific genre, enriched by her classical-infused sound and technique. In 2006 she moved to Chicago, where she became funding member of the gypsy jazz band "lePercolateur" alongside Sam Random and Stacy McMichael. She soon started to perform with other jazz bands in the city (Alfonso Ponticelli and Swing Gitan, Paul Marinaro, Paris La Nuit) at mythical clubs like the Green Mill, Katerina's, or the Jazz Showcase among others. She also regularly performed in NYC with Spiros Exaras, the Carte Blanche ensemble and the Avalon Jazz Band. As an actor, she stars in films like "American Slice" by Boris Wexler, "Viva La Libertà" by Roberto Ando, and performs the part of Alice Liddle on stage with the Chicago Opera Vanguard in the American Premiere of "Boojum: Truth, Lies and Lewis Caroll". In 2013, she moves to Paris where she funds "The Swing Factory", a vintage Hot Jazz Band alongside Romain Constant

Marcel de Oliveira Lima

Marcel d'Olive was born in São Paulo, Brazil and he began his musical adventures at age of eight, studying violin. Graduated in Music and Violin by UNESP — State University of São Paulo and by EMM — Municipal Music School of São Paulo, he has composed several songs and soundtracks for his troupe of storytellers called "Prana Teatro", since 2001. In 2012 he released the E.P. "Some disorder in the hall of mirrors", and in 2014 he released the album "Olive Mixture".

Daisy Castro

With roots firmly planted in the fiery passion of the Jazz Manouche tradition, Daisy Castro’s unique style refreshes and renews with a modern edge and global influence and instrumentation, bridging the distance between Django’s generation and her own in a very exciting way.

Daisy has been an active member of the “Gypsy Jazz” community both in the United States and in Europe since she was quite young. She has played on stages on both continents and beyond with all of the most revered players of this style, earning the respect of these luminaries and their discerning audiences.

With a repertoire encompassing everything from the Django songbook to Salsa to traditional Turkish music to original compositions, along with an occasional addition of effects pedals, a whole new world of musical exploration awaits all who attend a performance.

Adrian West

The Adrian West Trio delivers a full, diverse sound that spans acoustic rock, classical, Celtic, Cajun, West African and jazz styles. Combining vocal harmonies, electric violin, guitar, bass, drums and live “looping”, the Trio keeps audiences on the edge of their seats with a fun mix of originals, covers and instrumentals Adrian started playing violin at the age of four and in his teens studied classical violin at the McGill Conservatory of Music in Montreal. He later learned to play drums, guitar and developed his vocal technique. Adrian moved from Montreal to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1995

Emanuele Parrini

Emanuele Parrini is a prominent improviser in the Italian music scene, at eased with numerous genres, from ethnic music to jazz, Parrini. He has worked with the likes of the Italian Instabile Orchestra, the Dinamitri Jazz Folklore, Tiziano Tononi and Daniele Cavallanti and other prominent musicians of the Italian and foreign scene. He also collaborated with legendary figures including Tony Scott, Cecil Taylor, Amiri Baraka, John Tchicai, Anthony Braxton, and he played and recorded with William Parker Double Quartet, Butch Morris Orchestra, Marc Ribot, Cameron Brown, Keith Tippet, Ernst Reijseger, Ab Baars, Philippe Catherine, Nexus, Sadiq Bey, Ensemble Tartit, Louis Bacalov, Franco Cerri, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Enrico Rava, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Giovanni Maier, Simone Guiducci, Gianluigi Trovesi, Antonello Salis, Maurizio Giammarco, Roberto Gatto and many others.

Albrecht Maurer

Born: November 29, 1959

Albrecht Maurer studied violin and three semester viola at the Musikhochschule Köln. In addition, he pursued the study of non- European tonal systems and computer music with Johannes Fritsch und Klarenz Barlow. In the eighties Albrecht Maurer mainly played jazz fusion on synthesizers, violin and voice, while studying classical music. In the early nineties he began to focus on expanding and reinventing the violin‘s musical place: his works are characterized by sounds and loops, a broad timbral spectrum, percussive imitations and grooves all in combination with the energy of jazz and a classical technique

Sana Nagano

Born: September 21, 1984

Ever since she moved in New York City (2010), violinist and composer Sana Nagano has been performing actively in NY jazz, classical and underground music scenes. Her latest collaborations include with Karl Berger, Adam Rudolph, William Parker, Daniel Carter, the Manhattan Symphonie, Nioka Workman, John Ehlis, Federico Ughi, Harvey Valdes, Marius Duboule, Brittany Anjou, Jeffrey Shurdut and others. Nagano holds MA degree from Aaron Copland School of Music of Queens College, BA degree from Berklee College of Music, both in jazz performance/composition major.

Maciej Afanasjew

Maciej Afanasjew – violinist and composer Maciej has graduated from The Academy of Music in Katowice (jazz violin class and composition and arrangement class). He was studying at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz. Maciej is a Ph. D. student at The Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz in a class of prof. Paweł Radziński. He cooperated with such musicians as Erick Allen, Susan and Martin Weinert, Krzysztof Herdzin, Cezary Paciorek, Piotr Biskupski, Maciej Sikała, Piotr Baron, Janusz Skowron, Karol Szymanowski, Joachim Mencel, Grzegorz Nadolny, Jerzy Główczewski, Uli Rennert czy Matúš Jakabčic to name a few