Results for "Woodwind"

Joe Higham

Born: August 26, 1960

Tenor, alto and soprano saxophones, B flat clarinet After studying sculpture at the Brighton College of Art & Design he went to the CAT in Newcastle (now the Newcastle University) where he graduated in Light Music (nowadays called jazz). Several years later, whilst visiting friends and playing concerts in Brussels (1988), he discovered that the Brussels Conservatory was opening a new jazz section and decided to follow the courses -4 years- given by Belgian musicians such as Steve Houben, Jean Louis Rassinfosse and Bruno Castellucci, ending up with a first prize in saxophone and a diploma in Jazz Studies. Whilst at the Brussels Conservatory, he naturally became involved in the Brussels jazz scene, playing with many of the local musicians who were heavily centered around two places 'Travers' and 'The Kaai'

Ken Robinson

Ken Robinson is a freelance woodwind player in the Philadelphia area. He can be seen in many venues throughout the region. With over twenty years of experience, he performs regularly on saxophone, clarinet, and flute. Ken has performed with broadway and television stars such as: Paige O'Hara, Jodi Benson, David Ogden Stiers, and Susan Egan to name a few. He has been teaching privately for over ten years and really enjoys working with students of all ages and abilities.

Matt Darria

Born: February 21, 1960

Matt Darriau was named one of the most influental jazz musicians of the last fifteen years by Jazziz Magazine for bringing balkan rhythms and melodies into jazz. Besides being a leading innovator in the "Jewish Alternative Movement" (with his own „Paradox Trio“) Matt Darriau is also active as composer and musician in the new celtic band „Whirligig“, the big band „Orange Then Blue“, his swing band „Ballin

Shabaka Hutchings

Shabaka Hutchings, a saxophonist, band leader and composer, part of London’s community of younger jazz musicians as well as the city’s thriving improvised music scene. For Hutchings, composition is a chronicle of the zeitgeist inhabited by a composer; an exposition of his or her search for meaning and the structuring of experiences in aid of recognising this meaning when it appears. As part of the Caribbean diaspora, he sees his role as that of pushing the boundaries of what musical elements are considered to be Caribbean. Constantly evaluating the nature of his relationship with musical material and tradition, he describes his attempts at composition as wrestling matches with questions of where and how the Caribbean can be encoded, and what happens when it is exposed to the western classical music cannon. Hutchings was born in 1984 in London

Klaus Lessmann

Born: April 20, 1961

Klaus Lessmann (Clarinetist, Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger, Conductor) Originally from Burghausen (Germany), he studied classical music and jazz at the Musikhochschule Graz (Austria) and has lived since 1986 near Siena in Italy. He teaches jazz (clarinet, saxophone, combo, big band, arrangement) at the school of the Siena Jazz association and in other schools and workshops, and is regional coordinator for Italy of the International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ). He also teaches music to kids in regular schools. He performs with all sorts of groups, from dixieland and gypsy jazz to contemporary stuff

Fredrik Lundin

Born: April 7, 1963

Saxophonist, flutist, composer and band leader Fredrik Lundin is one of the major jazz profiles of his generation in Scandinavia. Since arriving on the Danish Jazz scene in 1981 this elegant and explosive musician has been searching relentlessly into the realms of contemporary music, respecting no boundaries. A truly original and virtuoso voice, performing in bands around Europe and Scandinavia, such as his own Offpiste Gurus, 5 Go Adventuring Again, the 13 piece MaLuBa Orchestra, which he co-leads with Marilyn Mazur and Kasper Bai, and with Marilyn Mazur Group, Jon Balke Magnetic North Orchestra and Carsten Dahl. 

Hepa Halme

Hepa Halme is a composer and woodwind player, who has worked professionally for 30 years in the Helsinki area. His artistic range covers everything from punk rock to performance and beyond...

Paul Cutlan

Born: July 17, 1964

Paul’s uniquely expressive voice as a multi-instrumentalist and composer is informed by many styles, including contemporary classical music, world music and jazz. He graduated from the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music in 1987 with Honours in Composition. Orchestral performance experience includes the Tasmanian and Sydney Symphony Orchestras and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. Paul has performed with many jazz/improvising groups committed to presenting original Australian music. International acts with whom he has performed include Lou Reed, Bobby Previte, Jim McNeely, Ólafur Arnalds, Jerry Lewis and Michael Bublé

Rob Hall

Born: January 22, 1969

Biography Rob currently plays sopranino, soprano, alto and tenor saxes plus clarinet. After gaining a degree and diplomas at Manchester University and the Royal Northern College of Music, Rob Hall won a scholarship (worth half fees) to study at the U.S.A. Berklee College of Music under the tuition of Billy Pierce (Art Blakey etc.), Phil Wilson and others, specialising on both soprano saxophone and clarinet. Since then he has completed numerous tours with his own groups and projects. Performances and tours, along wth recordings and broadcasts for radio and television, have taken him throughout the UK, and to Germany, Italy, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic and USA. He has performed/recorded with Mike Stern, Danny Gottlieb, Kenny Wheeler, Jim Mullen, Julian Arguelles, Dave O'Higgins, Anne Martin Ingrid Henderson, Simon Thoumire Orchestra Matthew Herbert Big Band, Tam White, Chick Lyall , Brian Kellock, John Rae, Philipp van Endert , Petre Dvorsky and many others

Alfred Harth

Alfred 23 Harth is a German multimedia artist, band leader, musician and composer who is mixing the genres in a polystylistic manner. As a person with synesthesia he uses numerology inspired by mystical sources as well as by Alban Berg and his music magazine 23, William Burroughs and Robert Anton Wilson. His short name is A23H. He was born in 1+9+4+9 = 23 in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany and artistically initiated by visiting a dada exhibition in 1+9+5+8 in Frankfurt/Main since then he started with drawing.

In 1+9+6+7 he founded the synaesthetical pools centrum freier cunst and Just Music. In 1970 he started photography, yoga and judo in a search of mystical extension and founded the group E.M.T., 1972-1974, with his then partner artist and pianist Nicole Van den Plas from Belgium and Sven-Ake Johansson from Sweden and worked with the New Yorker magician, numerologist and musician Perry Robinson and studied The Fourth Way by Ouspensky. In 1+9+7+6 he joined the loft jazz scene in New York and recorded the first LP of the Duo Goebbels/Harth and started with video.

Later in 1982 he co-founded the music group Cassiber and initiated the music group Duck and Cover and its composition in 1983 and co-organized the Marry the World By Conference Call in 1984 at the waschSalon gallery in Frankfurt/Main which he maintained with his then wife Karin Jedermann-Harth during the years 1984 to 1991.In 1+9+8+5 he adapted the number 23 in his name,recorded the LP Nouvelle Cuisine with the group Gestalt et Jive and composed a minimalist video installation Sam Lang.He contributed an Amphibian Match to the under water concert initiated by Micky Remann in Frankfurt/Main in 1986. The same year he produced a remix album Anything goes.In a stream of subcultural fake art he was inspired by Stockhausen’s concepted origin from Sirius and the paradise now movement by the Living Theatre.

He wrote a manifest Paradigmenwechsel in 1988 in which he proclaims the Instant City Happiness I-culture. The same year he founded the post modern group Vladimir Estragon comprising Einstürzende Neubauten drummer FM Einheit. In 1989 he created the performance Wenn Gott tot ist,dann ist er im Himmel with a sound collage of original interviews with Jean Baudrillard, Christina von Braun, Villem Flusser, Friedrich Kittler and a performance with Russian poet Dmitri Prigov at the Documenta Archive in Kassel in 1990. The same year he exhibited William Burrough's Paintings On Paper in Frankfurt/Main and had a retrospective called 2324 FU at the Dominikanerkloster, Frankfurt,and with Heinz Sauer he founded the duo Parcours Bleu a Deux which used pedal steered electronics.

In 1992 he met his wife Korean artist Yi Soonjoo and was portrayed by the Moscow TV in the short film Balance Action which was shown at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and the Filmfest Frankfurt.In 1+9+9+4 he changed his artist name A23H back into his original name Alfred Harth and was a member in the artist group Delicatesy Avantgarde with exhibitions in Gdansk. He also created Timezoneyes with cine-pictures of his musical tours and made a street installation "Wilhelm Leuschner zum Gedenken" in context with his art micro system project Gedankenhotel, 1993-1995, and had a retrospective Tensides at the Deutsches Filmmuseum and made a videoperformance Talisman of Karl V with video artist Ginteras Seputis at Schloss Solitude.

He made a remix album with out-of-print Alfred Harth Lps in 1996 and in 1997-8 he re-arranged,conducted and performed the West Side Story at the main theatre in Frankfurt/M. In 2001-2 he had a grant at Samzie Space in Seoul and created the LaubhuetteStudio Seoul. Since 20+0+3 he keeps open if being called "Alfred 23 Harth" or "Alfred Harth" and performed a solo video/electronic event 625 in 2004 in Seoul.In 2005 he produced a DVD T_error.