Emilio Del Monte Jr. (Born on November 15, 1974 in Lawton, Havana, Cuba). Cuban percussionist & composer. "Emilito" began his musical studies in Guillermo Tomas Middle School of Art in Guanabacoa. Later he continued his studies at Amadeo Rold?n Conservatory in Havana.
Musician (guitar, contrabass, bass guitar, composer and arranger). Born on July 12, 1966, Havana, Cuba. Graduated from Amadeo Roldan Conservatory in 1985. He has worked with different Cuban groups like Emiliano Salvador & Quintet, Bobby Carcass?s & Afrojazz, Grupo “Afrocuba", and Alexis Bosch & Proyecto Jazz Cubano among others.
Roberto Garcia is a world-class Cuban trumpeter and musical director of The Academy band. He has shared the stage with Chucho Valdes, Emiliano Salvador, Omara Portuondo, Alexis Bosch, Pablo Milanes, Silvio Rodr?guez and Ern?n L?pez-Nussa among other musicians.
Yissy was born on May 29th, 1987, in Havana, bearing great musical heritage from her father and main inspiration, drummer Bernardo Garcia. As a young child, she had inclinations toward percussion, starting her elementary studies in music at the Manuel Saumell School and continuing on to high school at the Amadeo Roldan Music Conservatory.
Andriy finished Odessa musical academy named after A. V. Nezhdanova as a saxophonist. He works at the orchestra on the base of Military Institute of Kiev national university named after Taras Shevchenko. He plays in clubs and sings perfectly. He works under his own album creation.
"I'm a 21 years old jazz/impro guitar player from Latvia, currently living/studying in Amsterdam. Recently I've released my debut album “Melancholia”, which you can listen online here: matisscudars.bandcamp.com While living in The Netherlands, I've won a couple of prizes: in 2010 I won the Grand Prix at the young jazz talent competition “Prinses Christina Concours”
Dmitriy Bondarev is a jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, bright representative of Ukrainian and Russian jazz stages. He participated in numerous jazz festivals of Ukraine (Za-Jazz, Jazz in Kiev, Alfajazz etc.), Russia (Usadba.jazz, MuzEnergo etc.) and Poland (Ukrainian culture festival in). The winner of the Grand Prix of young jazz trumpeters contest named after Yevgeniy Savin [...]
“Anton Tkachov (born in 1980) is a Ukrainian saxophonist, composer and arranger. Anton Tkachov is one of the most promising saxophonists on the contemporary Ukrainian stage, who feel himself comfortable in groups of both young and experienced performers. Tkachov special performing manner always could be distinguished by individual sound, competent phrasing; he can be a [...]
I am fond of drums, like to romp with electronic: Roland SPD30, Roland TF15like. Styles, it isn’t important when you have interesting musicians next to you, though I like mainstream (jazz), bebop, progressive, funky, cool jazz. Favorite drum performers are Maxwell Roach, Buddy Rich, Rufus Jones, Havi Mason, Dave Weckl, Dennis Chambers, Steve Gadd, John [...]
"My name is Anton Zubarev and I'm a jazz pianist from Yekaterinburg (Russia). I've been playing piano since childhood. I finished Ural Musical College on the base of Ural State Conservatory named after Musorgsky, and then Musical department of Ural Pedagogical Institute (class of Natalya Srodnych). My musical preferences are mainstream jazz and be-bop, contemporary [...]
"Master musician and guitar virtuoso Doug Munro is an established veteran of the New York music scene. Since 1987 he has released eleven albums as a leader and has appeared on over 50 recordings as a sideman, producer, and arranger working with a diverse array of artists including Dr. John, Michael Brecker, and Dr. Lonnie [...]
Jerry Bergonzi mentioned once, that instead of the guitarists Mick Goodrick and John Abercrombie he would like to see Stepan Eritsyan in his compositions. Stepan is invited to the USA for participating in concerts together with Jerry and other stars such as Ron Carter and others.
"Hello! My name is Anton Kotikov and I am a representative of young jazz generation of Moscow. I’m an alumnus of State Classical Academy named after Maimonides, I finished postgraduate studies there either. The leader of an open project “JAZZ LAB”. The most important things in my life are certainly music, jazz, improvisation. Regular participation [...]
Andrey Sacheva – violin. I participate in electro-acoustic duo ELVioDuo, as well as in projects ViolinDj, French Connection Jazz Quartet, performed as a member of electro-acoustic projects of Alla Zagaykevich. I studied with the violinist Henryk Gembalskiy in the jazz academy of Katowice (Poland). I am fond of composition. I like travelling.
I love my family and jazz, classic and rock music. And piano: I love B. Mehldau, G. Rubalcaba, Sv. Richter, A. B. Michelangeli and others.
I'm a music teacher in a university and I'm also a PhD student. I'm a composer/arranger/trumpeter and I have one album out (Bobby Rice “Sandunga”) and I have a Latin jazz big band which regularly features the great Cuban pianist Hilario Duran, among numerous other great Canadian jazz players.
I am fond of instrumental music and play the trumpet and flugelhorn everything from classical music to jazz! I finished the mainstream department of musical college named after P. I. Chaykovskiy.
Marsel Barannik won the first prize for composition on the contest “Samal” in Astana city, Kazakhstan. He finished Musical College named after Chaykovskiy in Pavlodar city as a pianist. He got a diploma for the best performing of piano ensembles – the first prize in the conservatory named after Kurmangazy in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Marsel studied [...]
Alexey was born and lived for many years in Siberia. He finished the conductor-choir department of musical college, and also the academy of culture as “Director of Public Events”. He is a unique performer, who plays the two-row chromatic harmonica. He has been playing this instrument since 2005, accompanying himself with guitar and use this [...]
I am a musician. I play since my 10 years. I finished musical school as a drummer. I finished mainstream department of Donetsk college of culture as a drummer. Take part in Donetsk jazz projects, as well as in Musical college, where I studied but now in role on session musician on the mainstream department. [...]
Bass and double-bass player, composer. Experienced flexible musician with sense of ensemble. He had an experience of playing with the best musicians of Ukraine and other countries while being a student of the Kiev University named after Gli?re and composed his own pieces of music. Since 2004 he has been a student of professor Wane [...]
JAMIE BAUM, NYC jazz flutist/composer/recording artist/clinician has toured the US and over 30 countries working with renowned musicians ranging from George Russell, Randy Brecker, Donald Brown, Kenny Werner, Mick Goodrick, Tom Harrell and Fred Hersch to Dave Douglas, Uri Caine, Karaikudi Mani, Wadada Leo Smith and V. M. Bhatt. Ms. Baum has received critical praise [...]
Более сотни импровизаторов из 22 стран мира уже стали участниками отборочного онлайн этапа конкурса МАСТЕР-ДЖЕМ ФЕСТА! Поздравляем! И напоминаем, что ПРИЕМ ЗАЯВОК на участие в конкурсе ПРОДОЛЖАЕТСЯ до 31 декабря 2012! И предлагаем взглянуть на статистику принятых заявок.
My name is Elias Habib. I'm a percussionist since an early age. I studied at the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, in Tel Aviv. I love to play many kinds of music and I hope to meet a lot of colleagues at the festival. See you all soon!!!
My name is Roni Zadik. I am a musician, drummer and percussion player. I got my musical education in the USA. Last year I moved into Israel. I own a music center, teaching, playing and recording with artists from my country and from all over the world.
Eygeniy Kitayev is a Transnistrian bass-guitarist, arranger and composer, who performs music of different genres. Accompanied to such musicians as Alexey Kuznetsov (Russia), Vladidmir Danilin (Russia), Yuriy Kuznetsov (Ukraine), Lee Andrew Davidson (USA), John Daniel Walter (USA), Giovanni Falzone (Italy), Edith Steyer (Germany) etc. on Jazz sessions. He took part in the international project “Trigon(Moldova) [...]
“I am a violinist by education, but became interested in the guitar a long time ago. I play in different styles, worked in different ensembles including numerous stars of Russian pop-scene such as Alexander Serov, Lev Leschenko, Irina Ponarovskaya, Valentina Legkostupova etc.. I have an experience of work in studio. At the moment I am [...]
