Results for "composer/conductor"

Ingrid Gerstmann

Ingrid Gerstmann is a jazz vocalist and composer in New York City. She made her New York debut in the Spring of 2015 at Smalls with the New York Jazz Workshop, and later performed with them again at Smalls and Club Bonafide. She has performed at Symphony Space with the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program. Gerstmann played her first New York solo show at The West End on January 24, 2016.

Along with gigs around the city, she has returned regularly to the West End to curate her own shows. Gerstmann performs her own arrangements and original compositions, and sings a mixture of jazz standards and songs chosen from all musical genres, many overlooked or forgotten. Gerstmann has played with John Austria, Donald Nicks, Taru Alexander, Keith Jordan, Bruce Cox, Ben Rosenblum, Russell Carter II, Jesse Crawford, Andrea Venezianni, Andrew Schiller and Tony Mapp. Gerstmann is from San Francisco, where she studied classical voice and completed the American Conservatory Theatre’s Professional Actor Training Program.

Mario Layne Fabrizio

website: www.mario.international

MARIO LAYNE FABRIZIO is a visual artist, composer, drummer, percussionist, filmmaker and writer. has performed with notable musicians such as Cecil Mcbee, Claudio Roditi, Nilson Matta, Santi DeBriano, Roni Ben-Hur, Joe Morris, Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko, Jason Palmer and Volker Goetze. He premiered Arturo O'Farrill’s piece Little Tiny Walls, theater piece The Black Clown at the American Repertory Theatre and played for Jason Moran’s STAGED exhibition with Cecil McBee and also performed chamber works by Jacob Druckman, Anthony Coleman, Joe Morris to name a few. Mario has toured around the world and has been presented with various groups at the Salzburg Jazz Festival (Austria), Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC & Shanghai, China), Panama Jazz Festival, Birdland (NYC), The Whitney Museum (NYC), Kunming’s International Drum Festival (China) and The Kennedy Center (DC). London Jazz News describes him accurately as "ferocious but subtle," and Steve Smith of On The Record says that he “plays with assurance, charisma and infectious enthusiasm.” You can find interviews about him in SEATTLEREFINED as the artist of the week and his poetry is published in Ben Mazer’s Art and Letters and was featured in Boston’s Intercollegiate Poetry Festival. Compositions of his have been acknowledged by the NYTIMES, ALLMUSIC, FRANCEMUSIQUE and commissioned by National Sawdust, is a finalist fellow for EBCP. He has won two YoungArts awards, and grants to support my works, a National Sawdust composition commission, and has been supported by MassMOCA, Assets for Artists, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Mass Cultural Council, and the Foundation for Contemporary art.

Don Sebesky

Born: December 10, 1937

Don Sebesky is best known as house arranger for many of producer Creed Taylor's Verve, A&M, and CTI productions; the man whose orchestral backgrounds helped make artists like Wes Montgomery, Paul Desmond, Freddie Hubbard, and George Benson acceptable to audiences outside of jazz. He has taken critical heat for this, but Sebesky's arrangements have usually been among the classiest in his field, reflecting a solid knowledge of the orchestra, drawing variously from big band jazz, rock, ethnic music, classical music of all eras, and even the avant-garde for ideas. He once cited Bartok as his favorite composer, but one also hears lots of Stravinsky in his work.

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.

Roberto Bonati

Tobias Gebb

Tobias Gebb is a drummer, composer and educator based in New York City. Over the years he has shared the stage or recording studio with a wide variety of artists. From Blue Note jazz guitarist Peter Burnstein to Donald Fegan of Steely Dan. From the famed west coast jazz pianist Smith Dobson to the famed rocker Lenny Kravits. He has a BA in composition from Berklee College of Music, an MA from Manhattan School of Music and a dual MSE in general and special education from The Bank Street School. His album Free At Last was in the Top10 on American jazz radio charts and through his licensing business his group Trio West has been heard on shows such as Dexter, Madam Secretary, Key and Peele and others.

Eri Chichibu

Eri is an award-winning Japanese composer/arranger/pianist/keyboardist/bandleader. She graduated Berklee College of Music in Boston, dual majored in Jazz Composition and Film Scoring, and minored in Video Game Scoring. Before diving into music field, she has studied education and psychology at Tohoku University in Japan. Her unique sounding music may be created because of this unique background. After she started her path as a musician, her works have recognized by many organization such as ASCAP, ISJAC, JEN, and more. (e.g. 2020 ISJAC/USF Owen Prize, 2020 & 2019 ASCAP Foundation Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award.) While she writes and performs her jazz compositions as a bandleader, she also makes music for media (TV, radio, video games, theater, and more)

Tobias M. Hoffmann

Tobias Hoffmann was born in Göppingen (Germany) in 1988 and discovered his passion for music and the saxophone during his high school years. From 2008 until 2010 he studied at the University for Music, Drama and Media in Hannover and from 2010 at the Prins Claus Conservatorium Groningen (Netherlands), where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in June 2013. After that he started his studies of Jazz Composition and Arrangement at the Musik und Kunst Universität der Stadt Wien. At the same time he studied Jazz-Saxophone at the Musik und Kunst Universität Wien and graduated with a Master of Arts (MA) with distinction in 2015.

Miho Hazama

Born: November 13, 1986

Grammy-nominated composer, Miho Hazama is one of the most promising and talented composers/arrangers of her generation. Lauded in Downbeat as one of “25 for the Future”, Miho developed her signature jazz chamber orchestra “munit”. Now having three full length releases on Universal Music Japan/ Sunnyside Records, Miho has written for and expertly showcased the abilities of guest artists such as Joshua Redman, Lionel Loueke, Stefon Harris, and Gil Goldstein, to name a few. Her debut album received the Jazz JAPAN rising star award, and she has been featured in such influential publications as Downbeat, The New York Times, NPR, JazzTimes among others

Peter Knudsen

Born: March 22, 1980

Peter Knudsen started playing the piano and also began writing his own music at the age of 10, and discovered jazz and 20th century music as a teenager. Having worked for some years with adapting the music of Debussy and Ravel for jazz trio, Peter and his trio recorded "Impressions- a tribute to Debussy and Ravel" in 2008, released on Found You Recordings. During 2009-2010, the trio did two summer tours in France. The trio has also performed at Swedish jazz clubs, festivals and concert halls. In 2010, he launched the project "P-B revisited", a quartet featuring Joakim Milder on Saxophone performing new arrangements of Swedish composer Peterson-Berger's music