Donna Khalife

Donna Khalifé is a singer, double bass player, composer, arranger born in Lebanon.

She starts her first piano lessons at an early age. In 2003, she moves to Paris to continue her music studies: piano, orchestration, harmony … Her conducting classes and her jazz and improvisation classes contribute a lot in shaping her musical sensibilities. Through the years, she improves her singing, composing, arranging and improvisation, as well as her piano and double bass playing.

Her eclecticism leads her to take part in different projects, in Lebanon and abroad both as leader and side woman as she multiplies also her collaborations with other art forms like theatre, dance, cinema.

Ben Jones

Born: July 27, 1982

Ben Jones is an award-winning singer, comedian, storyteller and actor who has appeared in front of audiences worldwide. He's shared the spotlight with the likes of Rita Moreno, Michael Tilson Thomas, Frederica von Stade, Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard, Helmuth Rilling, Michael Morgan, Val Diamond and the Bang on a Can All-Stars.

Ben’s versatile voice has been featured on recordings on the Albany, Naxos and Delos labels, on A Prairie Home Companion, on the soundtracks for the best-selling video game franchises Halo and Civilization, and on commercials for Coors Light and Meow Mix.

Ilario Ferrari

Gerry Wall

Born: July 26

Gerry Wall is a contemporary singer/songwriter in the style of Paul Simon, Ron Sexsmith and Marc Jordan.  Wall has just released his eighth album (Back Seat Fame), to follow up on his previous releases: The Early Dreams (2019), Mind Alone (2014), World (2010), ex Patriot’s Day (2007), Winter Grass (2006), Returning Fire (2004) and Tobermory (2000).  Reflective, accessible, with a touch of jazz/roots charm, some of the music that you might most treasure is by artists you don’t yet know; so please give a listen!

Gabriel Amadeus Hahn

The French-German artist's musical endeavors span an impressive breadth of genres, projects, and collaborations. For over a decade, Hahn has toured and performed with the vocal jazz legends The New York Voices. He has also served as the drummer for the Lorenz Kellhuber Trio, the Tobias Meinhart Quartet, and the French-German septet Das Rote Gras. Additionally, Hahn has sung and recorded contemporary vocal music with the Brussels Vocal Project and worked with the award-winning Taiwanese a cappella groups Voco Novo and O-kai Singers

Christopher Boscole

Born: March 9

Composer and arranger Christopher Boscole plays piano, keyboards, and soprano saxophone.  He has produced 14 albums that cross over in a variety of genres and formats - original piano solos in improvisational, new age , folk, pop, and classical styles, jazz piano trio and sextet, contemporary instrumental jazz ensembles with synthesizers and vocals, and latest upcoming release “Time for Love” - classic love songs featuring vocals, sax, and guitar.

Boscole's music has seen years of long term charting in top 10 airplay on new age radio, Sirius, Pandora, Spotify, Musak, I tunes, You tube, and other formats. He grew up in a musical household as his mother was a singer and piano teacher. After learning music basics from his mother, he studied classical piano for years with Mikiko Miyamoto, winning honors at adjudications. Christopher studied saxophone with Bill Wicker and played sax and piano in school jazz groups and later pop music and rock n roll as he worked for years as a pianist and keyboardist with a variety of artists/bands in Seattle including Diane Schuur, Phil Sheeran, Michael Powers, Jay Thomas, Top 40 Bands - Modern Dance, Yankee, and Impala USO Air Force show tour.

Teodora Brody

Born: September 30, 1967

Born in Romania, and now based in Switzerland, Teodora Brody initially trained in classical jazz and rose to prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s singing with legendary jazz pianist Johnny Răducanu.

Acclaimed for her extraordinary vocal power and creative vision, Teodora pioneered the fusion of jazz with Doina – Romania’s improvisatory folk singing tradition – and is widely credited with introducing international audiences to this extraordinary, deeply emotive music.

Always searching for new musical territories to explore, Teodora has performed alongside musicians including Stanley Jordan, Theodosii Spassov, Lars Danielsson, Johnny Răducanu, Les Paul, Curtis Fuller, Eric Legnini, Phillippe Duchemin, Guido Manusardi, Benny Rietveld, Daniele di Bonaventura, Ion Baciu and Al Copley. On the world stage, Teodora has regularly appeared at prestigious European jazz festivals including Montreux, Lugano and Marciac, and across the Atlantic she has performed at the US Library of Congress and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and at legendary clubs including Iridium New York and Blues Alley in Washington D.C.

Achim Gaetjen | Les Rabiates

Active since: September 5, 2006

city-trash-jazz rock'n'roll & polka-beat

Les Rabiates have been around for quite some time. In 2009, the CD “Ein Kiosk mit elf Millionen Nachten” was released as a collaboration between Les Rabiates and the German-Polish poet Artur Becker, whose absurdly twisted and complex poetry the band congenially painted with a kind of ruffian jazz to Becker’s recitation. The next coup followed in the same year with the CD single “Bastard”, in which the quartet worked for the first time with the Spanish singer CaLi, but also operated with German lyrics, which the band’s founder Achim Gätjen, actually a saxophonist, sings and speaks with a deep, growling bass. Singer CaLi is also present on the current album “Destination Unknown”, now as a permanent band member.

Kate DeL

KATE DEL is a highly versatile and accomplished vocalist and recording artist based in the North East Ohio area, where she has built a distinguished career in the music industry. A cornerstone of her local music scene, Kate performs regularly with Backbeat, a premier wedding and event band, and has earned acclaim for her exceptional talent and diverse musical expertise. Her journey as a professional musician is deeply rooted in a rich family heritage of musicianship.

Kate’s musical education began at the age of eight, and from an early stage, her passion for music became evident. Her formative years were shaped by her involvement in a Grammy Award-winning high school music program, which ignited her desire to pursue music professionally. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Findlay. At Youngstown State, she studied classical voice performance, music education, and minored in French horn, further broadening her musical proficiency.

Harold Widerik

Born: February 18, 1965

Harold Widerik, pseudonym for Wim Frederik Harold Pauwels, is a Belgian author, composer and musician. Although he received the highest award for four-part classical music writing, he has a strong preference for contemporary jazz. By combining aspects from different genres, he created his own jazzy style. Since early 2024, there has been a steady release of new songs.