Results for "Voice"

Theresa Wong

Born: March 31, 1976

Theresa Wong is a composer, cellist, and vocalist actively exploring the intersection of music, creative experimentation, and the synergy of multiple disciplines. Raised in upstate New York and the San Francisco Bay Area, Wong studied classical piano and cello from an early age. Her interests expanded into design, leading her to Stanford University’s product design program, as well as the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and Fabrica, an experimental research center in Northern Italy. While living in Venice, Wong realized her vision to unite music with the inquisitive process of design, with the primary intention of finding transformation through performance. Upon returning to the United States, she completed an MFA at Mills College where her teachers included Fred Frith, Joan Jeanrenaud, Joëlle Léandre, Annie Gosfield, Alvin Curran and June Watanabe.

Brent Charles

Born: August 19

From inspiring concerts to joy-filled society weddings and fund-raising galas, Brent Charles may be found providing live entertainment locally and internationally.

This unique vocalist, originally from Long Island, New York with Trinidadian roots, sprouts from a large musical family that spans the globe. Demonstrating deep warm tones to a vibrant whistle register with a vocal range of more than four octaves, Brent Charles sings in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Hebrew and has a musical range from Pavarotti, Sinatra and Barry White to Ne-Yo, Prince, Phillip Bailey, and Bruno Mars.

Heather Ward

Born: March 29, 1963

Heather hails from the Great White North (Toronto area), but has lived in Seattle since 1998. She’s been an artist and singer literally her whole life, and went to college for each discipline. She maintains a painting studio, performs in jazz venues, cabarets, theatre, and with the Dickens Carolers since 2005. She also teaches private voice lessons, does some film acting and voiceover, and sings professionally for an Episcopalian church.

Adam Beaudoin

Born: October 26, 1988

After classical training at Oberlin Conservatory, Adam moved to New York, where he studied with acclaimed jazz vocalists Sara Serpa and Theo Bleckmann. He currently works in operations at The Jazz Gallery and is a graduate student at The City College of NY, where he is set to receive his Masters in Jazz Performance in June 2023. He lives and teaches in Brooklyn, NY.

Lina Nyberg

Born: February 27, 1970

Lina Nyberg is one of Sweden’s most creative and innovative jazz singers and contemporary composers. For more than 20 years she has been attracting consistent and widespread attention, mainly in Scandinavia, but also in many other parts of the world.
Lina Nyberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1970 and raised in an artistic home, both parents being artists/illustrators. After gratuating from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 1993 she released her first CD Close (Prophone records). A duo recording with late jazz pianist Esbjörn Svensson. An instant success and Swedish jazz classic.

Davide Cerreta

Davide Cerreta is an Italian-German jazz singer, pianist, composer, arranger, lyricist, and educator. His repertoire consists of traditional jazz standards, hard bop melodies, contemporary original compositions and rearranged Pop-R&B tunes. Cerreta has been described as an old, romantic soul with a modern twist. He has performed in various festivals, TV shows, theaters, and jazz clubs throughout Europe, North America, South America, and Central America for the past 13 years. He is currently based in New York, New York, performing, composing, and arranging for an upcoming project. Cerreta also teaches as an assistant professor for the Voice Department at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts

Sophie Dunér

Born: October 28

“It’s not fusion – it’s Dúneresque – a newly created genre!” Grammy Award winning recording producer Michael Haas.

Sophie Dunér is a singer & composer with her roots in jazz. Originally from Sweden, she travels and performs internationally as her blend of jazz, world and contemporary classical writing receives demand worldwide – from the infamous CBGB´s in NYC to Buenos Aires Festival de Música Contemporánea La Plata to Festival O/Modernt in Sweden. Her new solo CD ‘Strictly Business’ (produced/recorded in London by the renown producer Darren Allison) was released in July 2022. 

Scotty Wright

Born: November 5, 1954

Jazz vocalist Scotty Wright is a veteran musician with over 30 years experience. One can hear the entire spectrum of jazz singing in his performances.  With a warm, rich-toned voice and tremendous range, Scotty possesses a unique sound that is deeply rooted in the jazz tradition. His style reflects his harmonic sophistication, playful rhythmic approach and his insightful phrasing of the lyric. His first recording, 'Too Much Fun!', was listed among the best jazz albums of the year in USA Today and the New York Daily News, earning Scotty a place in the DownBeat magazine's critics' poll, as a Talent Deserving Wider Recognition

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Gelsey Bell

Gelsey Bell is a Brooklyn-based vocalist, songwriter, sound artist, and scholar. She has been described by the New York Times as “one of New York’s most adventurous musicians” and “a charismatic and fiercely intelligent performer.” She is a core member of thingNY, Varispeed, and the Chutneys. She also plays the daxophone and other instruments. Her works include Cairns, a soundwalk for Green-Wood Cemetery (included on the New York Times Best Theater of 2020 list); shuffleyamamba, a dance piece created with Yasuko Yokoshi; Meander, a soundwalk created with Joseph White for Brooklyn Botanic Garden; SubtacTTTTTTTTT, an early pandemic online performance created with thingNY; Bathroom Songs, Scaling, Our Defensive Measurements, Skylighght (with Erin Rogers), Prisoner’s Song (with Erik Ruin), This Takes Place Close By (with thingNY), and the acclaimed adaptation of Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives (with Varispeed)