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Guitarist and Composer born in 1973.

Start to play at 16 years old with one and only goal: "to play during the summer nights around the fire on the south Italy beach...."

DEGREE in Jazz Music First Level Academy Cours, at the Conservatoire in Cosenza with Thesis  on  Wayne Shorter's  Composition  from 1964 to 1968.

Grant at the BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC, Boston (MA – USA) to make a careful study of Improvisation, Ear Training, Harmony Structural Functions,  Horns Arrangement,  Music Ensemble and  Instrumental Technique for the 1996 year.

Composer for silent movies (Nosferatu&Aurora by Murnau, City Lights, The kiss of Mary Pickford), word spoken readings and poetry, ballet.

Live and Studio collaborations with: Dave Murray, Agricantus, Lutte Berg, Nicola Pisani, Felice Mezzina, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Tonino Dambrosio, Carlo Cimino, Mark Bernstein. David Burrell. Jeaninne Pommy-Vega, Anne Waldman, Carlos Mestre.

TEACHING: 

Teaching experiences to any aged people. Subject: guitar, harmony, musical theory and improvisation. 

Collaborator at the "S. Giacomantonio" Conservatoire of Music In Cosenza for the Jazz Guitar Classes from 2006.
MANA The Art of Guitar and ElectroAcoustic Research (Electric Guitar Courses) from 2005. (Cosenza).
Music Academy of Calabria "F.S.Salfi" (Electric Guitar and Acoustic Guitars Courses) from 2000 to 2004 (Rende, CS).
Music School "Giuseppe Verdi " (Electric Guitar and Acoustic Courses) from 2002 to 2007. (Montalto Uff., CS).
Music School "Progetto Musica" (Electric Guitar Courses and Ensemble Course) from 2003 to 2006. (Castrovillari, CS).
He's a Qualified Teacher at the Yamaha Music School in Milano from 2005.

PROFESSOR-ASSISTANT at the following seminars:

"GUITAR AND IMPROVISATION" keeped by Cristiane Escoudè  in 2004;
"The Brasilian Music and Improvisation"  keeped by  Roberto Taufic and Giancarlo Maurino in 2004;
"Forms and Structures in Jazz Music" keeped Alessio Menconi, Riccardo Fioravanti and Stefano Bagnoli  in 2006;
 "Harmony and Improvisation" keeped by  David Reed  during the INTERNATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ FESTIVAL 2006. 
PAOLA IN JAZZ 2008 and 2009, first level jazz guitar classes.




CONCERTS & FESTIVALS (among the others):


Cosenza Jazz Fest, Verso Sud "International festival of Poetry", Radio Vaticana, Settembre Rendese 2009, Dvorak Jazz Meeting 2009, Festival di Villa Celimontana, Paola in Jazz 2009, FestivArt 2009, Le Arti del Gesto IV edition, PAOLA IN JAZZ 2008, SETTEMBRE RENDESE 2007, MUSIC IN FEST 2007, INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FESTIVAL 2006, PRIZE OF ARTS 2005, PEPERONCINO JAZZ FEST 2005, CATANZARO JAZZ FEST 2005.

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Jaak Sooäär (b. 1972) was born in Tallinn, Estonia. In 1994, he graduated from the Music College in Tallinn and, in 2001, from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. Since 2001, he has taught guitar at the Jazz Music Department of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and, since 2004, acted as the head of the department.

Sooäär’s first concerts (all over the Soviet Union) took place as a member of the Estonian Boys’ Choir in which he started singing at the age of seven. Since 1989, he has been active on the Estonian jazz and pop scene, playing guitar literally with everybody of note.

Since the late 1990s, Sooäär has performed with many internationally known jazz musicians, including Ray Anderson, Conny Bauer, Han Bennink, Raoul Björkenheim, Eric Brochard, Gavin Bryars, Kent Carter, Will Calhoun, Pierre Dørge, Anders Jormin, Dave Kikoski, Joelle Léandre,  Joe Lovano, Ramon Lopez, Ron McClure, Karlheinz Miklin, John Schröder, Harri Sjöström and Petras Vyshniauskas, and has been active in several international bands, including The Dynamite Vikings, Erdmann/Sooäär Dessert Time (1st prize at international Peer Gynt Improvisation Contest in Pärnu, Estonia, in 2001),  Mockunas-Pasborg Project and Almost Zebra (3rd place at the 5th European Improvisation Tournament in Poitiers, France, in 2001). In May 2006 Sooäär performed as guest soloist with WDR Big Band (Germany).

In 1999, Sooäär toured with The European Jazz Youth Orchestra and, in 2003, took part in the EBU Big Band in Istanbul, Turkey. One of his Estonian groups,Eesti Keeled, was given the Estonian Music Award as the best etno/folk artist both in 2003 and in 2005. In 2007 Sooäär was the first jazz musician to get Estonian Annual Jazz Prize and the same year he also recieved annual prize of Estonian Culture Endownment (Eesti Kultuurkapital). Jaak Sooäär appears on around 20 jazz CD-s.
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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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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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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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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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Cheng-Ying Chuang - Countertenor/Chinese lutenist. Taiwanese Cheng-Ying Chuang is a musician in both Chinese and Western classical music. The fact that he has won numerous awards in both Classical voice and Chinese lute music in both East and Western makes him hard to be defined. He was awarded BS in Horticulture from National Taiwan University in 1997, Master of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003, and Master of Vocal Music Performance from Birmingham Conservatoire in 2007. The major music awards he won are the 1st prizes of Taiwan Music Competition of Liuqin solo in 1991 and of Chinese Orchestra in 1996 conducting the National Taiwan University Chinese Orchestra, winner in Taipei Philharmonic Foundation’s the 4th Voice Competition 2004, the 2nd prize in Cecil Drew Oratorio Prize 2006 at Birmingham Conservatoire, and the New Star 2008 in the National Concert Hall in Taiwan.Owing to his background in science, art, landscape, architecture, and music, he performs music not only with the refined Chinese/Western classical music elements but also with the opened mind and historical knowledge towards world cultures in order to communicate with world audience of diverse backgrounds. Currently residing in London, he plays/sings as a soloist, with his group Musitonik Ensemble, or with diverse world musicians/music groups/performing artists in the UK and Taiwan. He worked with artists of different styles, which include Jazz, Chinese folk/classical, Beijing Opera, Scottish folk, Indian Light Classical (singer and tabla player), British Pop, Electronics, Jewish folk, Western Early and Classical Music. The artists in other art forms he has worked with include Indian Kathah dancer, Chinese folk dancer, Contemporary/ballet dancer, animator, film maker…etc. He is a member of London Symphony Chorus and Crouch End Festival Chorus. Future project includes “Piccadilly Revisited”, a silent film which will be recreated on music with Western classical/opera, Chinese folk/classical, and Western Pop features in the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House in March 2010; a solo recital in Asian Music Circuit, London in May 2010.The music groups/ musicians he works with include: Scottish Philharmonic Orchestra, Asian Music Circuit in London, Taipei Philharmonic Chorus/Youth Orchestra, London Chamber Music Company and its director Mark Troop, Edinburgh iMAP Ensemble (Intercultural Music and Arts Projects) and its artistic director/composer Kimho Ip, Glasgow Harmony Ensemble and its director/composer Eddie McGuire, Blur singer Damon Albarn, South African violinist Willem Mathlener, composer Mark Lockett, Indian light classical singer Sanchita Pal, guitarist Liz Larner, organist Sam Austin, London Symphony Chorus, Crouch End Festival Chorus, Silk String Quartet, Silk & Bamboo Ensemble…etc.The venues and festivals he performed recently include: Roundhouse in London, Barbican Centre, Taiwanese National Concert Hall, The Forge in London, British Museum, British National Portrait Gallery, Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland, The Confucius Institute for ScotlandEdinburgh Mela Fesitval, Glasgow Oran Mor, Bielefeld University in Germany, Recital Hall in Birmingham, Birmingham IKON Gallery, Birmingham ArtsFest, St Martin in the Bullring, Birmingham Cathedral, Buxton Festival, Gwyl Pontardawe Festival…etc.
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A great exponent of bansuri music, Guillaume spent many years in intensive training under the living legend Hariprasad Chaurasia at the Vrindaban Gurukul in Mumbai (India) and recently under Pt Rajendra Prasanna from New-Delhi. With great dedication towards the bamboo flute and indian classical music, he was able to absorb the essence and authenticity of the tradition. Apart from his knowledge of the traditional repertoire and technical skills, Guillaume's lyrical and intense style leaves no-one untouched. His warm, rich tone and soulfull expression mesmerize. He has performed with various musicians in India such as Arnab Chakrabarty (sarod), Babulal Gandharva (inventor of the unique string instrument called "belabahar"), Rakesh Chaurasia (flute), Sri Nandakumar (mridangam), Ustad Rafat Khan & Zuber Shaikh (sitar), Anirban Roy Chowdhury & Naveen Gandharva (tabla)... and has accompagnied Hariprasad Chaurasia several times during "Krishna Janmashtami". In the west/Europe, he performed with Ustad Misirli Ahmet (darbuka) & Erkan Ogür (guitar/saaz) on "The Search" Tour in Turkey (2005), Levent Yildirim (darbuka), Saïd Chraibi (oud), Manu Eveno (from french pop band TRYO) at Quebec Summer Festival (2006), film-director Tony Gatlif on "Vertiges" Tour throughout Europe (2007), and many others... Now based in Paris, Guillaume performs on a local and international scale and often returns to India... He is a performer of north-indian traditional music recital as well as a full-time member of various world music ensembles such as FOULA (pop-world), ARBOLS with an album "La Danse du Papillon"(2006), MELODITERRANEE and MARC LIEBESKIND TRIO (ethno-jazz)... In solo-recital, he renders the three main styles of hindustani music known as dhrupad, khayal & thumri. He is a teacher of Indian Flute in France with an organization named Yaman. “Guillaume ushers in a potent challenge to the prevalent negative notions about the competence of non-native performers of Indian classical music. He belongs to an elite minority of foreign musicians who have absorbed the essence of this music and are able to reflect this in performance.” – Arnab Chakrabarty (sarod)  
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