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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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ISTÉPHANE CASALTA... Former member of A Filetta, Stéphane Casalta, a talented singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, grew up in Balagne (Corsica), in the cradle of the cultural revival (Riacquistu) of the 1970's and 80's. He was 11 years old when he began singing with A Filetta and spent his teenage years under the precious influence of this legendary Corsican band. From village to village, and album to album, the road was long and full of beautiful encounters.
Founder of the band Giramondu in 1993, the act became the reference in Mediterranean music and Casalta revealed his creative potential by writing and composing the titles of the band's first two albums. They enjoyed great success with their second album "Mediterraniu" (1999). A year later, having already built a musical catalogue of an astonishing audacity and personality, looking to explore his affinity for poetry and pursue more inspiring eclectic sounds, Stéphane chose to move on to a solo career. Stéphane began a new career with "Una Preghera" (A Prayer) (2001): Subtle arrangements mixing traditional instruments (with the help of Jean-Paul Poletti and Patrizia Guataceca from Soledonna ), Mediterranean inspiration and electronic atmospheres . "He sings with his deep voice, poetic lyrics on which he reveals a very personal musical world" said Marco Lamioni, the album producer. "The words and the poetry are the keys of his world, his conscience and his art". Casalta came back with a new release in 2003 named "Sumenta d'Ideale". In 2006, Stéphane began writing new songs which eventually evolved into " terra è celu ", his forthcoming release. With his very own vision of the music in mind for his new album, he delivers a unique mix of Corsican music with various world music influences. 2008 and 2009 : geminas with the Sardinian singer: Franca Masu and other projets: polyphonic band (terranova) …

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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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Ayman Massoud (born in Alexandria in 1978) is an Egyptian multi-instrumental musician and composer. He mainly plays keyboards in his band Massar Egbari (www.myspace.com/massaregbari) , in addition to other instruments like guitar, bass, drums, darabuka, ,melodica, oud.

He started his professional musical career in the mid 90's, and played various genres with different bands. He played Egyptian music, Rock, Blues, accoustic, world music and fusion.

In 2006, Ayman was awarded as the best keyboards player in the first international music competition organized by Bibliotheca Alexandrina. And in 2008 he got a certificate in "Music theories" from the Associated board of the Royal schools of music.

During his career Ayman played in many countries such as Egypt, Turkey, Malta, Italy, Macedonia and Tanzania. He participated in lots of workshops and had the chance to play along with notable musicians such as the Egyptian Grammy award and BBC award winner Fathy Salama, The German Blues guitarist Jurgen Schubert, the Italian trumpet player Giovani Falzone, the Italian saxophone player Francesco Berzatti, the Turkish percussionist Izzet Kizil and many more.

He also works as a sound engineer in the music field as well as a sound designer for movies, theatre plays and video installations.

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Samir Fejzic, composer and pianist, born in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), studied composition at Music Academy in Sarajevo, where he graduated in 1998. Currently he teaches renaissance and baroque counterpoint at Secondary Music School in Sarajevo. His work is characterized by different influences, variety of styles and the constant try of assimilation of classical vocal styles, traditional folk music and contemporary techniques into his compositions under the personal perspective. His interest for vocal music resulted in writing of a book Vokalni kontrapunkt, which he finished in September 2003. and was published by Svjetlost in Sarajevo. He is also co-author of the book Bosnian Songs for Voice and Piano. Simultaneously with composing and lecturing Samir performs as a jazz pianist and till the moment he recorded couple of TV shows (“Jazz in action” for Bosnia and Herzegovina TV), three CDs, he would accentuate the album Vintage, performed with Swedish singer Karolina Ollinen. Remarkable part of his energy is focused on preserving traditional Bosnian musical inheritance: he arranged and stylized numerous amount of traditional Bosnian tunes. For his work he got recognition of wide audience at home and abroad and received several awards, the most important Charter, in 2001, attributed by Association of Music Educators Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina for his arrangements in the project Bosnian songs for voice and piano.
In 2008 he founds "Samir Fejzic band”, with whom, in year 2009th, published a new album called "Bosnian Songs For Voice And Trio” (traditional Bosnian songs called sevdalinka, stylized in the manner of jazz and modern classics). Currently performs at events such as the Sarajevo Film Festival, Novogradski dani, the International Festival Sarajevo Winter etc.

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Vladimir Vysotski (b. 1982) pianist, composer, electronic musician. Studied classical and jazz piano at Helsinki Pop & Jazz Konservatorio, Polytechnics Stadia and Estonian Music Academy. His music style can best be described as eclectic – getting inspiration from many sources and freely bringing different music styles together to create a fresh new sound.

Vysotski plays in several jazz, funk and experimental bands in the Estonian music scene. The music of his band Xpress Quartet www.myspace.com/xpressquartet incorporates elements of jazz, fusion and pop, creating extremely energetic and positive vibe.
The band Eclectic Stories founded in collaboration with Brian Melvin (perc) and Kristjan Mazurtchak (sax) mixes together Indian music rhythms with Nordic jazz sounds. The band Club Eclectic, featuring brilliant jazz, soul and house music singer Sofia Rubina, actively uses live electronica on stage, blending together acoustic samples and electronic beats with live performance. Both bands' music samples are available at www.myspace.com/wysotski.

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Accordionist Tuur Florizoone (°1978) hasvery quickly grown into the most adored musician in Flanders. With anirresistibly stylish stage presence, the Belgian accordionist Tuur Florizoone(°1978) set out to prove that his unusual instrument is capable of a lot morethan your regular street corner shenanigans. Jazz is only one of the many typesof music this musical world citizen has in his kit bag. The fact that he iscomfortable in pop as well as in world music is obvious from the endless listof names with whom he has shared the stage or the recording studio: PhilipCatherine, Carlos Nunez, Alfredo Marcucci, Zahava Seewald, Chris Joris, RoccoGranata, Jo Lemaire, … In 2008, during the prestigious World Soundtrack Awards(Ghent), the public were completely enamoured with his passionate score for theFlemish movie Aanrijding in Moscou (directed by Christophe Van Rompaey). Thesoundtrack's international success leads us to believe that Tuur is well on hisway to becoming our own Yann Tiersen. Melancholic and simple melodies that leadinto an all-embracing palette of emotions and colours are Tuur's forte. Makingas much music as possible with as few resources as possible. No wonder heprefers the intimacy of a trio. To name a few of Florizoone’s bands: hebewitched the public with Tricycle (alongside Vincent Noiret and PhilippeLaloy. (Check www.tricycle.be ), he is setto seduce once more with his somewhat curious, but energetic trio,‘Massot/Florizoone/Horbaczewski’. Or, how the opulence of a symphony orchestracan hide within the reduced combination of an accordion, a cello and a tuba. www.myspace.com/massotflorizoonehorbaczewski.

He plays solo concerts all over Europe andbeyond and he plays in different other bands like ‘José’, with Nic Thys,Laurent Blondiau, Tutu Puoane, Chris Joris. Or aNoo, with the Finish singer AnuJunnonen.

www.tuurflorizoone.be

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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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ARMANDO ILLARIO

Diploma in harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano at the Conservatory of Milano, and degree in piano at the Conservatory of Novara (Italy). About to take an MA at the faculty of Musicology, University of Cremona (Italy).

As a soloist has given concerts in Italy, and with “Sebes Trio” (violin, clarinet and piano) has performed in Italy and abroad, winning a scholarship in 2002 from Novara Conservatory for the execution of Bartok’s “Contrasts”.

Was active member (as a pianist, composer and arranger) of the band “Juba Lane”, research and contamination project of the ethno-jazz scene, which won the 1st prize at the Italian jazz contest “Fiesole jazz” in 1999 and was selected as one of the finalist bands for the 1999 edition of the “Biennial of Mediterranean Young Artists”. With the band performed in many Italian and European festivals, such as “Pistoia Blues”, “Three jazz festival” (Firenze), “Etnosuoni” (Roma), “Sarajevska Zima” (Sarajevo)…

Has collaborated as accordionist and arranger in several traditional music bands, such as Eyal Lerner’s “Shlomot” (Klezmer and Jewish music), “Il Paese delle Mille Danze” (European traditional dances), “Le Bal Masqué” (world traditional songs), and “Marsa Project” (European traditional music). Has performed in Italy, France, Malta, Palestine, Greece, Spain…

At the moment is active as accordionist, composer and arranger, in world music band “Tri Muzike”, which has recorded three albums, and “Canto Antico”, which promotes and performs Southern Italian traditional dance and music, winning 1st prize both at “Val Tidone International Contest” in 2006 and at “Italian Folkontest” in 2008. Performs both in Italy and abroad.

Is also part of the project “Suditalia”, which promotes Southern Italian traditional music in Greece, giving workshops and concerts, and since 2009 has started researching Italian and European medieval and Renaissance music in a project with Viva Biancaluna Biffi and Simone Mongelli.

Has worked as a piano accompanist both in schools and in auditions, has composed music for theatre and movies, and has taken part in two urban performances by Simone Mongelli: “Dimensioni” and “Tipota”, performed at “Sarajevska Zima” festival in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Played piano in the musical “Gianburrasca”, touring many important Italian theatres

As a teacher has also been active in piano and accordion lessons, as well as a Musical Education teacher in Secondary schools and in several workshops about traditional music and dance in Primary schools.

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Mohamed-Ali Kammoun. Pianiste, compositeur & arrangeur de musiques de maqâm-s d'influence jazz et de jazz contemporain. Enseigne l'harmonie moderne et l'analyse musicale à l'Université de Tunis 1 (Institut Supérieur de Musique de Tunis). Titulaire d'un master en jazz de l'université Strasbourg, d'un doctorat en musique et musicologie du 20è siècle de l'université de Paris Sorbonne, Paris IV (champ d'analyse : les nouvelles formes instrumentales d'influence jazz en Tunisie), certificat FNEIJMA (diplôme de compétence professionnelles en jazz - France). Auteur de plusieurs musiques composées pour la scène musicale, le théâtre et le cinéma.

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Michal Zak, musician (wooden flutes, shawms, clarinet)
"After several years of traveling around the world, playing concerts all over the Europe, Asia, North Africa and the United States, talking to people as well as learning their tunes I have finally got to Polish village where I discovered my new-old language. At the moment I work for preserving cultural heritage of the Polish village by learning and recording tunes of fiddlers, pipers and singers.
Meanwhile I compose, perform and record music for silent films, theatre plays, I carry on flute workshops, play concerts and dance events. I'm a prizewinner of several Polish contests for best ethno album (Lautari "Azaran" ; Janusz Prusinowski Trio "Mazurki"), best group or creation (Niedzwiecki/Zak/Kierzkowski/Pulcyn ; Duo Zak/Szyszkowski). I contibute to Polish National Radio as well as Polish National Theatre.
Music is my first language. I'm looking for perfect dialogue by playing traditional, improvised, minimal, jazz and classical music. It can be either rough dance music with aged men in a village or Chopin's works in duet with my wife's piano...."

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