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I am a pianist, arranger, producer, composer and bandleader, specializing the fields of Latin, Jazz, African & Reggae Music.

I have six albums out under my own name released between 1998 and 2008 - Salsa con Soul, Inglaterra, Aventuras, R&B Latino, Anglo-Cubano and Afro-Saxon. More details of these can be found at : http://www.alexwilson.ch/cds/

My current projects are : (click for audio link)

Salsa con Soul Orchestra - modern salsa - http://www.alexwilson.net/salsa.mp3

Uplifting Roots - reggae jazz - http://www.alexwilson.net/uplifting.mp3

Mali Latino - African/Latin collaboration - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FpJz2t6FvY

As a pianist I have worked for Marc Anthony, Toumani Diabaté, Madou Sidiki Diabaté Jocelyn Brown, Courtney Pine, Hugh Masakela, Tito Allen, Adalberto Santiago, Tito Gomez, Cheo Feliciano & Snowboy among others.

For a sample of my jazz/latin piano playing, visit : http://www.alexwilson.ch/piano-sampler/

I am a committed music educator, having delivered workshops and masterclasses for young people both internationally, for The British Council in Colombia, Cuba, Jordan and Israel, as well as in the UK for music colleges, such as the British Academy of New Music, The Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Nottingham University.

I am currently working on a new collaboration Mali Latino, which combines traditional music from the Latin American continent with the West-African Mandé tradition. A video about this can be seen at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCHCZ0C1Sas

I was born in the UK of mixed English/African parentage and was brought up in Sierra Leone, UK, Austria and Switzerland.

I can work in four languages - English, German, Spanish & French.

More info at www.alexwilson.net

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Kari Ikonen (b.1973) has studied piano and composition at the Sibelius-Academy Jazz Department, from where he got a Master of Music degree in 2001. He has also studied at the Jyväskylä Music Institute and the Rotterdam Conservatory in Holland. In addition to his own ensemble Karikko he plays the piano and/or other keyboards in the jazz/folk ensemble Ahava, the electro-acoustic improvisation trio Gnomus, the art-pop/world/jazz trio SLO Motive, and jazz groups Mr Fonebone and Markus Holkko Quartet, performing frequently in Finland and abroad. He has performed with many internationally known musicians, such as Ingrid Jensen, Henry Lowther, Stan Sultzman, Ron McClure, Vincent Courtois, Magnus Broo, André Fernandes, Gunnar Halle, Dayna Stephens, Poogie Bell, Eero Koivistoinen, Jukka Gustavsson, Otto Donner, Manuel Dunkel, Jukkis Uotila and Sonny Heinilä. Ikonen has performed in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Latvia, Iceland, The Faroe Islands, France, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Czech Republic and the USA. Ikonen’s playing and/or compositions can be heard on more than 20 records.

Ikonen has composed a lot of music for different small groups and larger ensembles, e.g. UMO Jazz Orchestra and The Norwegian Radio Orchestra. In 2000 he won the first prize at the International Julius Hemphill Composition Awards (Jazz Composers Alliance, USA). His debut-cd ”Karikko”, consisting of his compositions for different ensembles, was chosen as the best Finnish jazz-cd of 2001 by the ”Jazz-Emma” prize (Finland’s Grammy) and in 2002 he won the first prize in the ”Scrivere in Jazz” big band composition contest in Italy.

Ikonen works as a part-time teacher at the jazz departments of the Sibelius-Academy and at the Estonian Music Academy in Tallinn.

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Multi-percussion player and drummer Renzo Spiteri is a sought-after independent musician distinguished by his ability of adapting to a wide range of musical styles - jazz to classical, from solo percussion performances to fusion, contemporary, folk and world music. With a professional music career spanning more than 25 years, he has established himself as a leading percussionist, creative artiste and session musician renowned for staging outstanding live performances in concert halls, theatre productions as well as art exhibitions.

Based in Malta (Europe), Renzo’s concert schedules have taken him on a beautiful musical journey across the globe, from Greenwich Village (New York City) to South Korea. He has performed in major festivals (WOMAD, Festival of the Desert, Musica Viva, PASIC) and theatres, and has worked alongside exceptional musicians to the likes of Trilok Gurtu, N’faly Kouyate (Afrocelt Sound System), Guo Yue, Mercan Dede and Mousse Ndaiye (Youssou n’Dour). Through his ongoing World Music Projects, Renzo regularly engages musicians from various ethnic communities to collaborate and create unique musical dialogues. These cross-cultural exchanges and concerts have consistently mesmerised and intrigued audiences, and in 2008 Renzo was appointed Ambassador for the European Union’s campaign “Year for Intercultural Dialogue”.

His creative and inventive approach to challenging projects has earned him high-profile assignments from local entities, foreign diplomatic bodies and international arts councils. He has scored music for the visitors’ audio guide of Hal-Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), performed the contemporary “Sounds Unlimited” during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2005 (presented by The National Arts Council of Northern Ireland and The British Council), presented installation performance “Re:Public” as closing event celebrating Cork (Ireland) as European Cultural Capital, and “Sketches from Home” performed during the Festival of Cultures in Viareggio (Italy) (by invitation of the Italian Ministry of Culture). Locally, Renzo leads his own Latin Jazz Quintet and works very closely with the contemporary Contact Dance Company (Malta), writing music and performing live on stage with the company in Malta and across Europe. He was also featured on a national level in adverts and campaigns to help raise awareness about social issues (Fairtrade, Iniziamed, Inspire – Foundation for Inclusion) and environmental themes (commissioned by the Ministry for the Environment, Malta).

As an educator, Renzo has collaborated with the music departments at Queen’s University (Belfast), University of Iowa (USA) and China Conservatory of Music (Beijing). His residency/research period at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) in Belfast (N. Ireland) highlighted his enthusiasm for more contemporary and experimental presentations of percussive music, merging the resonance of “found objects” and more conventional percussion instruments with live-electronic manipulation.

His solo album entitled “This is my language” (2005) is a collection of “sketches” using traditional as well as unconventional percussive instruments, and is described by the artiste as “a personal statement, an inner voyage … like an abstract painting, there to be perceived by every individual”.
Renzo is an internationally endorsed artiste for world leading companies Toca Percussion, Paiste Cymbals and Gibraltar Hardware, and is supported by Yamaha Drums and Olimpus Music (Malta). www.renzospiteri.com

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Pianiste compositeur, Geoffroy Colson a étudié le piano et l’orgue classique avant de découvrir le jazz et les musiques improvisées. Pratiquant également le saxophone en autodidacte, il a ensuite suivi les cursus professionnels de l’IACP (Paris) et de la NAMM (Milan) tout en travaillant avec Katy Roberts. Il est également titulaire d’une Licence de Musicologie.

Sa démarche artistique est depuis longtemps caractérisée par une recherche personnelle sur le métissage des musiques (il a notamment autoproduit en 2001 un CD de compositions originalesbaséessurlejazzetles musiques d’Amérique Latine), par le désir d’abolir les frontières stylistiques, et par la surprise,sans cesse renouvelée, créée par l’improvisation. Ses pérégrinations musicales l'ont conduit en 20 ans du Languedoc à la région PACA en passant par la Bretagne, l'Ile-de-France, l'Italie et la Polynésie Française, où à chaque fois il a pu développer et enrichir son jeu grâce de fructueuses rencontres musicales. Il a eu l’occasion de se produire dans des styles aussi variés que le jazz, le classique, la variété, la chanson à texte, le rock, le reggae.

Il développe actuellement deux projets musicaux :

« Pacific Vibrations », un projet international réunissant des musiciens d'origines très diverses autour de compositions originales d'influence jazz et intégrant les traditions musicales du Pacifique (Australie, Mélanésie, Polynésie...).

« Prana », un quintet de jazz contemporain dans l'esprit de McCoy Tyner, Jacky Terrasson, John Abercrombie.

Depuis 1995 il enseigne également le piano, la formation musicale, l’harmonie et l’arrangement, et dirige des ateliers de pratique collective. Il a créé dans ce but Aremiti Musiques en 2004, entreprise de services autour de la musique, ainsi que les Ateliers Musique de l’Argens, espace de pratique collective autour du Jazz et des Musiques Actuelles.

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Tahirovic Irfan , born on 07/02/1983 in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a musician and a composer who entered the music world at the time of the war in Bosnia, during which he was a refugee in several countries (Former Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Turkey, Sweden and Germany).

He mainly plays percussion instruments (Darbuka, Djembe, Congas, Bongos, Repenique, Caicha, Surdo, Cajon and Udu) and combines them at the same time.

His professional music career started in Munich with the band Trilogie der Lust“
After his return to Sarajevo in 2006 he joined the “Sarajevo Drum Orchestra“ (www.sdo.ba) with which he played, until May 2007, Samba, African, Latino-American and Oriental rhythms.
In May 2007 he joined the cover band “Lana & Exhale“ (www.lanahamza.com) and performed with them in Sarajevo's and Bosnia's most popular clubs turning some world hits into Afro-Cuban, reggae or Latino-house rhythms.
At the same time he started to study the Balkan music and devoted himself in understanding and feeling the music he was playing. He attended many workshops in Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia and had the honour to play and create music with remarkable musicians such as:
Izzet Kizil (percussion, Turkey), Giovani Falzone (trumpet, Italy), Francesco Berzatti (saxophone, Italy), Toni Kitanovski (guitar, Macedonia)

Soon after, he started to play with one of the most popular folk-singers in the Former Yugoslavia, Halid Beslic. After the 2009/10 winter tour with Halid Beslic (Zenica 10.000 people, Zagreb - 2 nights in a row - 50.000 people, Banja Luka 7.000 and Karlovac 6.000) he was called as a guest percussionist by one of the greatest Pop-Rock bands in the Former Yugoslavia, “Crvena Jabuka“ and played with them in Sarajevo's Olympic Hall “Zetra“ in front of 20.000 people.

At the moment he is recording an album with his Sevdah band “Divanhana“ and works with his Irfan Tahirovic Trio (www.irfantahirovictrio.tk) that was founded in November 2009.

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Yossi Yifrach is a guitar player and composer that investigate the instrument in many styles like Jazz, Classical Music ,Gipsy Jazz, rock, blues, indian music, electronic music and more. His main interest is guitar solo, influenced by guitar players like Joe Pass, Martin Taylor, Pierre Bensusan, Ted Greene, Egberto Gismonti, Ralph Towner and meny more. Through the years he played with many musicians in many different projects. In these days, he is performing mainly in a guitar solo concert. He is also a member in a jazz trio Ritual (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, nylon string guitar - Yossi Yifrach , saxophone-Hadas Goldshmit, piano-Tamir Miler). He is also playing World Music with Yatziv Caspi on percussion, and also in a solo concerts. In all these projects he is the main composer. Beside performing, he teaches guitar for more then 20 years. Yossi have a B.A. in philosophy and education, M.A in philosophy and he is writing his P.hd in philosophy of mind at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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Compositor, arreglista, bajista y cantante. Músico de diferentes orígenes (Brasil, Angola,Mozambique, Portugal), su estilo fusiona todas estas influencias dando lugar a experimentaciones diversas en el ámbito de la fusión.

Jazz fusión, bossa-jazz, jazz-pop, que presenta en varios formatos.

Apasionado del bajo eléctrico desde su infancia en Mozambique, donde descubrió el ritmo y las percusiones del Africa Oriental. Profesional desde 1985, sus influencias principales han sido el funky y la fusión, que le llevaron al descubrimiento del jazz.

Su experiencia como músico engloba diversos géneros: el teatro musical, el cabaret, las bandas de jazz, fusión-étnica.

Como compositor, su formación musical clásica y moderna le ha permitido crear un estilo propio en sus composiciones que se acercan a la música contemporánea.

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Ayman Mabrouk was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1983. right in the deepness of the Arabic culture, He grew up listening and exploring many different oriental music styles, Egyptian, Turkish, Caucasian, North African, Azerbaijani and gulf Arabian, which formed the basis of his musical work today. He began to work professionally as a percussionist with some of the most respected bands of the traditional oriental music scene like the Alexandria Opera House Band and he soon established himself as a sought-after musician, well known for his authentic grasp of Arabic, Jazz, Flamenco, African and Latin American music styles. A few years later he has been featured on many television shows as well as at Jazz & World Music festivals in Egypt, Malta and Lebanon. Mastering a large variety of percussion instruments such as the Darbuka, Riq, Cajon, frame drums, congas, Azerbaijani naghara, bongos, Djembe and many others, he mixes those different cultural percussion instruments with some western ones like the snare drum, hi-hat, cymbals and other soft percussions for making a wonderful fusion of sound between all different cultures and identities, his musical influences today are derived from a combination of traditional Arabic and North African rhythms, gulf Arabian, flamenco, Latin American styles, Blues, Rock and jazz. Ayman Mabrouk has been appearing and sharing the stage with several famous artists like the “Grammy and BBC award winner” Fathy Salama and his band “Sharkiat” and the “Emmy award winner” German pianist Matthias Frey and the German Saxophonist Büdi Siebert and the “JPF U.S.A award winner” Spanish guitarist Fernando Perez and famous French rock singer Rodolphe Burger. Also he has been performing with many respected artists like the winner of the best Oud player in the world 2002 & 2004 “Hazem Chaheen”, world famous qanoun player “Hossam Shaker”, well-known Egyptian German Oud player “Basem Darwisch” and the member of international orchestra of Nay the Nay player “Mohamed Antar”. Also he had made many workshops with different artists like Lebanese saxophonist Toufic Farroukh and Lebanese Oud player and composer Charbel Rouhana and the German electronic music composer Tomath Brinkman. Mr. Mabrouk percussions are now featured on Fernando Perez and Mohamed Antar three new upcoming albums.

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Born in the town of Ejea de los Caballeros, Zaragoza, Fernando’s interest in music begun at the age of seven.
His first contact with classical music was throughout the conservatory of Spain. After these came numerous private instructors and music centers such as ’L’Aula de Musica’ in Barcelona, ‘Escuela de Musica Creativa’ in Madrid, ‘Musicians Institute’ in Hollywood, California, Maharaja Sawai Mansingh Sangeet Mahavidyalaya in Jaipur,India and Arabic Conservatoire du Musique d’Alexandria, Egypt.
In these centers he studied traditional, classical and contemporary music styles, as well as harmony, composition, arrangements, orchestration, sound engineering, and other special courses such as Film Scoring, Ethnic music, etc.

But his interest took him to learn more directly from artists and their cultures, traveling to different places to not only learn but to experience the spirit of the different musical styles.
Nowadays you can realize this experience throughout the talent of this artist who has performed with
artists from such exotic places as Hawai’i, Cuba, Jamaica, West Africa, Japan, South, Central and North America, Spain, France, Ireland, India, Egypt, etc.

The guitar has always been his passion, an instrument which he explores in its many forms, starting by the spanish classical guitar, acoustic, electric, Dobros or resophonic guitars and continuing with other
interesting ones such as african, hawaiian ki Ho'alu (Slack Key) and Kika Kila (Steel Guitar), the ‘slide’ style from Mississippi, Flamenco, or even the curious way of playing guitar in hindustani music found in India. He also explores new horizons reflected throughout his arrangements and compositions based on
instruments of different cultures; examples are the japanese Koto, chinese Pipa, or african Ngoni and Kora.

In his performances Fernando has been a musical ambassador supported by the Embassy of Spain and Cervantes Institute representing the music of his native Spain.
He has collaborated with artists such as Shye Bent-Zur (Middle East-India), grammy winner Fathy Salama (Jazz/Arabic, Egypt) or his work with George Kahumoku (Hawaiian) in a Grammy Winning concert series called “Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key”. He has several published works representing the music of the major cultures in our planet performed on guitar and has presented them in renowned Theaters, Opera Houses as well as International Music Festivals in the five continents. Examples are: EarthSync Festival, India, Universal Expo 2009, Spain, Mediterranean Countries Dialogue Night, Egypt, Festival of Sufi Music 2009, El Cairo, Roxy Theater, Hollywood, U.S.A. Ritz Carlton Great Hall, Hawaii.

Official Website: www.mojorootsmusic.com
Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/user/mojorootsmusic

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Trumpet Player

Born on the 30th October 1973 in Guasila, a village in Sardinia like many others, situated in Trexenta a small region in the province of Cagliari. At the age of 9 learns the first rudimentals of the trumpet studying with the musical band, in the nearby village of Sanluri, directed by his uncle (his family, on his fathers side, boasts three generations of musicians.) Some years later he joins the academy of music and, parallel to his studies, applies himself to concert activities both classical (orchestral and soloist) and rock groups, jazz etc…
He transfers to Bologna where he became an active part of the musical scene, which is going through a fervid period of creativity. Plays in a wide variety of contexts, from experimental jazz to traditional, from Caribbean salsa to rom music of the Balkans etc. His concert activity is integrated with teaching both in private and with the famous Ivan Illich s popular school. After eight years in Bologna, aware of the declining phase the city was passing through in the artistic and cultural sphere, decides to return to his home town, to share with those who remained in Sardinia, the experience acquired outside the island…. Establishes bonds with some ”launeddas” players (holders of one of the most antique and complex musical traditions) learning himself this instrument and above all the practise of extempory traditional poetry of the Campidano, the southern part of Sardinia. Many years after his return to Sardinia he collaborates closely with local artists and emigrants with similar ideas (musicians, poets and writers) with whom he forms a sort of “congregation”. Actually collaborated with the Enzo Favata Tentet: "The New Made in Sardinia" and the project Voyage en Sardaigne. He played also with: Misha Mengelberg, Roswell Rudd, Lester Bowie, Tristan Honsinger, Lukas Ligeti, Steve Lacy, Elliot Sharp, Dragan Nikolic, Marko Markovic, Ivo Iliev, Sid Amhed Benbali, Miriam Palma, Saadet Turkoz, Michael Riessler, Gianni Gebbia, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Tiziano Tononi, Vinicio Capossela, Roy Paci, Paolo Angeli, Antonello Salis, Tanaka Yumiko, Andy Moor, Phillip Greenlief, Chris Cutler, Phil Minton, Francesco Cusa, poetries Alberto Masala, Serge Pey, Lance Henson, Jack Hirshmann; dancers Katleen Delaney, Carla Onni, Rita Spadola, Hisako Horikawa; the artist Anton Roca; the actress Antonella Puddu.

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After a heavy hand injury, as a form of therapy began playing percussion.Influenced by Frank Zappa entered the world of experimental music.At the end of the nineties played with most famous singers of serbian folk scene.Made music for the movie "Aporia" with a group Arhai.Currently working on the project "Bizar Bazar", as well as the pop group "Svi Na Pod".In the last two years, released an album and was touring with the famous group KAL, with whom he has played throughout the world.During the tour the United States he had more lectures on Balkan music at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, UC Davis (California), La Villita in San Antonio...

ANNA JAGIELSKA-RIVEIRO

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Anna Jagielska-Riveiro, singer, performs music of various epoques and sings in many styles, but in her musical creation she gives a special meaning to Sephardic music. She is an outstanding specialist in this field and the only singer in Poland who deals with Sephardic themes so deeply. She experiments all the time with different instruments to her projects, but she always performs Sephardic songs in the original language ladino following ancient vocal practices in style and in the use of ornaments.

She has been closely cooperating with the Cervantes Institute in Warsaw for a few years, which gave its patronage to her newest CD with Sephardic songs: LUNAS OLVIDADAS – Forgotten Moons. Songs presented on the CD refer to the tradition of Medieval Spain as well as to the way of performing Sephardic music in the Arabic part of the Mediterranean Sea Basin. At the same time, the arrangements of the pieces correspond with the worldwide tendency of joining forms and styles: on one hand presenting the originality of separate musical trends and on the other including them in the international cultural heritage.

The interests of Anna Jagielska-Riveiro are connected with widely understood Jewish culture as well. Apart from Sephardic songs, she has included in her repertoire Hebrew and Yiddish songs. She is also a prize winner of Jewish Song Contest organized by Warsaw’s Jewish Theatre. Jewish music is the topic of her newest programme: MAAYAN – Colours of Jewish Music.

Although her artistic creation has so far dealt mainly with ancient music (especially from Spain) as well as with traditional, folk and world music she also performs songs in other genres. In her repertoire we can find for example music of Latin American countries, including Argentinian tango and Brazilian bossa nova (in this program she cooperates also with jazz musicians).

Anna Jagielska-Riveiro constantly gives concerts and takes part in international festivals. She has performed in many countries like: Spain, France, England, Italy, Germany, Lithuania and others. She cooperates with outstanding soloists and chamber musicians in Poland and abroad. She is the initiator and director of „Comtessa” music consort, which specializes in ancient, particularly Medieval and ethnic music. She also runs vocal courses and workshops in the country and abroad.

She has been recording for the radio and television and she has made several records, including solo CDs, among others: “Almond trees – Sephardic songs” together with the singer of Sephardic origin Jerardo Ojeda, „Cantos de la Espana Antigua” (Songs of Ancient Spain); „Noche Latina – Latin Night” (Songs from Latin America), Cantigas de Amigo - Songs to a lover” and : „Lunas olvidadas” (Forgotten Moons – Sephardic Songs).
The artist’s concerts and recordings have been given the patronage of the Polish Radio 2.

Anna Jagielska-Riveiro speaks spanish, english and french.

More information on the website: www.music.annajagielska.art.pl/ and
www.myspace.com/anyaannajagielska

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