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Name: Jeffrey Phillip Smith
Skills: Player, Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +1 (416) 927 1431
Address: 889 Bay St. apt. 806, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3K5, Canada
Links: E-mail
 
Pianist Jeffrey Phillip Smith has appeared before audiences in Rome, Sorrento, Paris, Biarritz, Salzburg, Vienna, Manchester and Palm Beach, as well as his native Toronto. He has been heard on radio, has appeared in Toronto's Massey Hall, and has been seen on TVO performing chamber music for the Korean Ambassador. At the invitation of General Motors of Canada, he presented a series of recitals at their annual European congresses in 1998, 1999, and 2000.

While a student at the Glenn Gould Professional School of the Royal Conservatory of Music, he was the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including the RCM award, the Frederick Harris Musical Sholarship, the Leslie De'Ath Memorial Sholarship and others. While at the RCM, he worked with pianists Leon Fleisher, John Perry and Boris Lysenko. After having spent four years at the Glenn Gould School, he now studies at the University of Toronto under the guidance of Professor Boris Lysenko, the former Chair of Piano and Vice President of the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Conservatory.

 

Name: Anna Maria Stanczyk
Skills: Player, Concert Pianist
Address: United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Anna Maria has performed in: Europe, Asia, and Central and North America. She has played in major concert halls including: the, “Philharmonic Hall” Warsaw”, Van Leer Hall”, Jerusalem, “Philharmonic Hall”, Odessa, St. Lawrence Centre”, Toronto, Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, London and Carnegie Recital Hall, New York where she received the following review: ”Miss Stańczyk is a pianist with a genuine feel for the Romantic repertory. Her tone although heroic, is capable of a myriad shading subtleties, and she has the intelligence and sense of narrative structure, that is crucial to any reading of this music.” New York Times

 

Name: Simone Stella
Skills: Composer, Conductor, Player, Teacher, Writer (organ, harpsichord)
Address: Firenze, Italy
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Born in Florence (Italy) in 1981, Simone Stella studied piano at the Conservatory "L. Cherubini" of Florence with Rosanita Racugno, and perfected his piano studies with Marco Vavolo. Studying organ with Alessandro Albenga, he is also a disciple of the harpsichordist Francesco Cera for ancient music, and studied organ improvisation in Cremona with Fausto Caporali and Stefano Rattini. He has attended many courses and seminars held by internationally acclaimed artists including Ton Koopman, Giancarlo Parodi, Edoardo Bellotti, Mariella Mochi, Montserrat Torrent, Michel Bouvard, Stefano Innocenti, Claudio Brizi, Klemens Schnorr, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Ludger Lohmann, Umberto Forni, Monika Henking, Guy Bovet, Matteo Imbruno and Luca Scandali.

First Prize Winner in the International Organ Competition "Agati-Tronci" in Pistoia in 2008, and in both the 2004 and 2005 editions of the "Alessandro Esposito" Organ Competition held in Lucca, Italy, Simone Stella maintains an active concert schedule, both as a soloist and in various chamber formations, in Italy, Spain, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands. His repertoire includes the vast majority of Johann Sebastian Bach's keyboard works, as well as organ music from every historical era up to and including the present day. He is an active composer of instrumental music, both for solo instruments and chamber groups, in addition to working on free urtext editions of keyboard works by italian renaissance and baroque composers.

He was titular organist at the historical Orsanmichele Church in Florence.

Also acclaimed as a poet and critic, having won prizes in several international competitions, Simone Stella was awarded at a very young age the titles of Academic Senator by the International Academy of the Micenei and Accademico di Merito by the Italian Academy of the Etruscans for his musical and literary talents.

 

Name: Nigel Conway Stephens
Skills: Arranger, Player, Music Typesetter using Neuratron PhotoScore & Sibelius (Violinist)
Phone: +44 20 8660 2473
Address: 63 Downlands Road, Purley, Surrey CR8 4JJ, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
COMPETITIVE RATES/FAST RESPONSE TIME. Nigel provides a comprehensive and very personal notation service utilising the latest software, with a fast response time at reasonable rates. He can transcribe from handwritten manuscripts to produce high quality scores of any size from piano and vocal to full symphony orchestra.

In addition, he is able to carry out rapid transpositions from handwritten or printed music, and arrange music for various ensembles. Nigel is regularly required to carry out such arrangements at short notice for local String Quartets and other groups from piano/vocal scores for example.

Nigel's background is as a violinist. In earlier years he travelled extensively and absorbed influences of many ethnic styles from Scottish reels to Czechoslovakian dance in addition to the Classical repertoire. He currently plays with a number of London ensembles/orchestral groups and has begun a series of his own compositions.

 

Name: Peter Vukmirovic Stevens
Skills: Accompanist, Composer, Player
Phone: +1 (206) 226 8776
Fax: +1 (206) 226 8776
Address: 1222 Summit ave. #301, Seattle 98101, United States
Links: E-mail
 
eter Stevens is a composer and pianist living in Seattle, Washington. His works include music for two pianos and percussion, choral music, mixed chamber, string quartet, percussion ensemble and solo piano. Peter graduated magna cum laude from Cornish College of the Arts. He currently studies composition with Samuel Jones, Composer-in-Residence at the Seattle Symphony. His other teachers have included Bern Herbolsheimer, David Mahler, Jarrad Powell, David Mesler and Bodhan Bubak in the Czech Republic. He performs in Seattle as a solo pianist, accompanist, and with Chamber Music Seattle. He has debuted his works with the New Prague Theater and at the Soros Contemporary Arts Center in Prague, Czech Republic.

 

Name: Charles (Chuck) Floyd Stevenson
Skills: Arranger, Player, Singer, Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +1 310 457 6520
Fax: +1 310 919 3545
Address: 29500 Heathercliff #195, Malibu 90265, United States
Links: E-mail
 
young looking 50 year old electric bass player.studing for 30+years.Jaco P's first bass student Ft Laud 1968-69.brought to LA by Captain Beyond's B.Caldwell (drummer)..numerous rock acts prefer jazz funk/free (groove master)pro tool literate..last touring act was with Axe out of texas..

have been running construction bussiness and now retired going back to playing full time (kids are raised.."a lot of right hand facility" of Cuban anscestry..grew up in South Florida..have toured europe 75-76 available for gigs,teaching etc..

 

Name: Alastair Stout
Skills: Composer, Player
Phone: +1 412 269 3431
Address: 1439 1/2 Ridge Avenue, Coraopolis PA 15108, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Alastair Stout was born in 1975. He Studied Composition and Organ at the Royal College of Music (1993 - 1997) with Joseph Horovitz, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (1997 - 1998) with Dr. Rober Saxton and is currently working for a PhD in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London with Simon Holt (due for completion in 2001).

His portfolio comprises a range of works from solo to multi-media dramatic pieces including ensemble,vocal and orchestral music. He has collaborated with choreographers at the London Contemporary Dance School, writing for the Internet (www.longtales.com) and for the theatre (GSMD production of The Cherry Orchard).

His works have been performed by ensembles including the Brunel Ensemble, Composer's Ensemble, Ixion, Chroma, St. Paul's Cathedral and Waltham Abbey Choirs, and solo artists such as Rolf Hind, Sarah Walker and Melinda Maxwell. The music has been played in in venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, Sir Henry Wood Hall, Reid Concert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, and festivals such as the Spitalfields Festival, Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Gregynog Festival and the Hoxton New Music Days. His music has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Radio Shetland.

Alastair is also an organist specialising in 20th century repertoire. He has played in St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Ely Cathedral and in churches throughout Britain. Organ works have been written for him by Arthur Wills, Stephen Wilcocks and Gordon Lawson. He was assistant organist at Wesley's Chapel, London from 1993 - 2001.

 

Name: Christopher Adam Stripp
Skills: Player, Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +44 (0)7973 654 412
Address: United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Born in 1984, Christopher began playing the clarinet at the age of eleven. In 2000 he gained a Music Scholarship to study with Patrick Shelley at Sherborne School in Dorset for the duration of his sixth form studies. In 2001 Christopher was appointed principal Bass Clarinettist with the National Youth Orchestra where he received coaching from John Bradbury, amongst others, who subsequently became his teacher at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2002. Christopher was a student on the ‘Joint Course’ with the University of Manchester and in July 2005 graduated with honours, being placed in the first class. He has just completed his fourth and final year of study at the RNCM taught by Nicholas Cox.

Christopher has been a recipient of the RNCM’s ‘Winfield/Grayam’ prize for solo woodwind and devotes much of his time to chamber music. He has recently been awarded first place in the RNCM's most prestigious chamber music prize, the Granada Prize, for his performance of Penderecki's Quartet for Clarinet and String Trio. He was also a finalist in the same competition with the Coupland Ensemble playing Brahms' Clarinet Trio.

Christopher has made numerous other appearances at the RNCM as a chamber musician, including performances of Malcom Arnold's Divertimetno for Wind Octet, Schumann's 'Fairy Tale pieces', Khachaturian's Clarinet Trio and Ravel's 'Introduction and Allegro' for flute, clarinet, string quartet and solo harp.

Last summer he toured the Yorkshire Dales with the Vacation Chamber Orchestra playing Schubert’s Octet in F and an arrangement of Richard Strauss’ 'Till Eulenspiegel' for five instruments. With the same ensemble he recently gave performances of Nonets by Martinu and Novak together with Nielsen’s 'Serenata In vano', opening the Ripon Cathedral Concerts Society 2005 season. At the end of July Christopher is due to perform as a concerto soloist with the European Vacation Chamber Orchestra on their tour of Italy and Switzerland. He will then revisit Italy in August to appear with the Orchestra dell'Accademia of the 2006 Stresa Conducting Competition.

 

Name: William Thomas Strong
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Player, Teacher (Bassoon, Woodwind Quintet, I can teach all of the woodwinds.)
Phone: +1 (904) 573 9064
Address: 6170 George Wood LN W, Jacksonville/Duval/Florida 32244, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
I am a professional Bassoonist in the Jacksonville, FL area. I perform with 2 local area Orchestras and also a Woodwind Quintet.

I arrange and compose music for Woodwind Quintet. If you are interested in purchasing some of my music please contact me for a list of available pieces.

 

Name: Brandon Daryl Sturiale
Skills: Accompanist, Arranger, Composer, Player, Soloist, Writer (In addition to composing and performing solo piano works, I have also scored works for small and large orchestra, stage plays, and children. )
Fax: +1 775-855-7904
Address: New York, NY , United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Brandon is a composer and pianist currently living in New York City. His contemporary piano solos have touched many hearts with their tenderness and ability to evoke images and emotion. Please take the time to find out about upcoming events and appearances, learn more about Brandon's background and career, sample audio clips from his solo CD entitled "Midnight Story", and purchase the album at www.brandonsturiale.com

 

Name: Haitham Yasin Sukkarieh
Skills: Composer, Conductor, Player, Teacher
Phone: +962 5063432
Fax: +962 5063432
Address: Al - Aqsa , Amman 962127, Jordan
Links: Website     E-mail
 
composer & maestro of jordan orchestra the teacher of composetion $ orchestration & Harmony in Jordan Academy of Music

I play piano and Keybaord , my composetions is a modern oriental style

a had meny songs & theater music

 

Name: Sunwrae
Skills: Accompanist, Arranger, Composer, Manager, Player, Soloist, Teacher, Writer (Piano, Vibraphone, Trumpet, Mellophone, Glcokenspeil, Melodica, Guitar, Vocals.)
Address: PO Box 1317, North Fitzroy, Victoria 3068, Australia
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Rae Howell is a freelance musician, working as a composer and performer in Melbourne Australia, currently under the name of 'sunwrae'. Rae’s writings present an original, all-instrumental contemporary classical music program, stemming from the piano and vibraphone, extending to instrumental ensembles as large as the orchestra. She works regularly as a session multi-instrumentalist, in both studio and live performance areas, on piano and vibraphone, trumpet, mellophone, glockenspiel, melodica, guitar, vocals and percussion.

The Sunwrae Ensemble consists, in various combinations, of piano, vibraphone, harp, clarinet, lap-steel guitar, double bass, strings and percussion, artistically implementing improvisation, creating eclectic textures and rhythmical intricacy. Written by Rae Howell and performed live and semi-improvised by the Sunwrae Ensemble, Sunwrae Muisc welcomes proposals for production and collaborations.

 

Name: Filippo Tampieri
Skills: player, soloist, CELLIST
Phone: +39 (0)95 317133
Fax: +39 (0)95 317133
Address: via di sangiuliano, 182, catania 95131, Italy
Links: Website     E-mail
 
CELLIST RESUME F.T. was born in Cesena (Forlì) on June 9, 1968. When he was ten he began his Studies with Professor L.Malusi then he has been accepted by Professor R.Filippini. As a pupil and he completed his master of music degree at "Verdi" Conservatory In Milan on 1989 with full marks.

He won a lot of national and international competitions: "Concorso Nazionale di Vittorio Veneto"(1986), "Concorso Nazionale Città di Genova" (1985), "Concorso Internazionale città di Stresa"(1984), "Premio Internazionale Calpurnia in Città di Castello" (1989)ecc.

He attended specialization courses with teachers: Rocco Filippini, M.Brunello and M.Flaksman; "W.Stauffer Foundation" in Cremona, "R.Romanini Foundation" in Brescia and in "Music Association of Villa Contarini" in Padova (1986/7,1994/5 And 1990/3) He was Flaksman's assistant professor in summer specialization courses "Castel del Monte" in Andria and at Staatliche Musik Hochschule in Heidelberg Mannheim.(Germany 1994/5) He was cello Professor at "Refice" Conservatorio in Frosinone on 1996.

He played as 2° solo cello in a movie produced by RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana),with conductor W.Delmann.. ("The wonderful six of Tchaikovskij" -1990) He served for several years (1987/1992) in RAI of Milan and in "I Pomeriggi Musicali"Orchestra of Milan as tutti-cello; then he played as Principal Solo cello at "Bellini"Theatre in Catania (1993/94), Symphonic Orchestra "Toscanini" in Parma (1995), S.O.Of Sanremo Theatre, (1997/98) and "International Orchestra of Italy" in Fermo. He record pieces as soloist for RAI of Trieste. He played in a concert for S.S. Giovanni Paolo 2° as tutti-cello with the Orchestra "I Virtuosi di S.Cecilia" on August 1995 and he played chamber music with soloist of Teatro "La Scala" di Milan in Festival "Sadurano Serenade" in Forlì. He Played as 2° solo- cello at "Teatro Comunale in Ferrara" and by S.O. "Haydn" In Bozen (1995/7). During his cello-studies he has studied composition and chorus direction and composition

 

Name: Guillaume Tardif
Skills: Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Manager, Player, Publisher, Soloist, Teacher (Violin, Chamber Music, Conducting, Masterclass, Lecturing)
Phone: +1 (780) 435 9569
Fax: +1 (780) 435 9569
Address: 3-82 Fine Arts Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Canadian violinist, mostly active as soloist with orchestra, in recital, and as chamber musician. Associate Professor, University of Alberta. Author of virtuoso arrangements for solo violin, CD productions, and pedagogical material for the violinist. More information at www.guillaume.tardif.com

 

Name: Styliani Tartsinis
Skills: Player,Soloist,Teacher (saxophone virtuoso)
Phone: +1 (212) 569 7480
Fax: +1 (212) 569 7480
Address: 12 Seaman Ave. 5C, New york, NY 10034, United States
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Styliani, Greek-born and American-trained, performed as a soloist with orchestra, recitalist and chamber musician. She studied with the legendary saxophonist, Sigurd Rascher, the most important artist in the history of the classical saxophone, following studies at the Manhattan School of Music. Heard on International and National Radio including the National Public Radio in Israel, Dutch Radio, NYC’s WQXR and WKCR, live on both the National Public Radio and the Greek-American Broadcasts.

New York City performances at Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall), Merkin Concert Hall, Riverside Church, Trinity Church, St. Paul's Chapel, in Washington DC at the Kennedy Center and other performances throughout the US. She has performed new music in New York City at the Greenwich House Music School, DCTV, LaMama featured soloist in Festa Primavera: A Night at Olde Turne Hall. Recordings include composer Lior Navok’s CD Hidden Reflections as well as her own CDs, Remembering Sigurd Rascher and Americas. She has performed for Army Generals, His Eminence Archbiship Demetrios, ambassadors of Israel, China, Greece and Cyrus.

She is constantly challenging and expanding the perceived limits of her instrument, as a performer of new music, world music, styles from other performance periods, and collaborations with composers resulting in premiere performances of works specifically written for her. She is credited for the US East Coast premiere performance of Dimitri Terzakis’ Der Holle Nachklang. Her concerts have received numerous standing ovations. Styliani is also featured in the International Biographical Centre's Who's Who in the 21st Century.

Besides performing as a concert saxophonist, Styliani is a woodwind player in the Broadway pits of New York City and in other shows and venues. Her saxophone clinics emphasize the Rascher Saxophone Method, and her own method that includes other woodwinds. Her systematic method outlines how to master tone, rhythm and the developement of effortless technique through song.

 

Name: Krassimir Draganov Taskov
Skills: Accompanist, Arranger, Composer, Player, Soloist, Teacher
Phone: +359/0882 33 50 40
Address: Complex "Yavorov" bl.20,A, Sofia 1104, Bulgaria
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Krassimir TASKOV (born 1955) is among the most active Bulgarian composers, pianists, and pedagogues of his generation. He graduated with honors from the Sofia State Music Academy "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov." Krassimir Taskov has written compositions for a variety of performance mediums. His works have been singled out for prizes in prestigious international and national competitionsMore than twenty of his compositions have been printed by various publishing houses in Sofia (Music, Elm, and UBC), Moscow (Musica), Paris (J. Billoudot), and in Canada (Vox Bulgarica). He carry out very activity as solo and chamber music performer.During the period 1985-9, Taskov was the chairman of the young composers' section of the Union of Bulgarian Composers. He has over twenty years of teaching experience at the Music Academy, where he has chaired the composition department since 1999 and has been a full Professor of Composition since 2002.

 

Name: Benedict Taylor
Skills: Administrator, Player, Teacher, Writer
Phone: +44 (0)7969 486966
Address: United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
I am Violist trained at the Royal Northern College of Music, under the tuition of Roger Bigley. Professional performing experience, includes work with orchestras in Britain, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Solo experience in the UK and performances in the international festival of music in Montepulciano, Italy Chamber music with many different groups, including work string quartets, new music ensembles, free style improvisation, hip-hop, drum and bass and pop artists. performances with many theatre and modern dance companies and live perfomance in collaboration with silent film.

I have had extensive recording experience in both a classical and popular setting, including work for Sony/BMG, work in recording departments of the RNCM - Manchester, and LIPA -liverpool, and various independent studios. I have also had experience of filming for BBC Television.

I have taught privately and for the RNCM Junior Strings Project. Workshop experience includes work for Action Space UK, In The Boat and Imprint Theatre companies, and musical coaching and directing for shows with these companies.

Administrative experience includes, the Founding and Directing of The Great Northern Recitals -Trinity Chuch leeds. Co-founding progressive music groups, including a freestyle string quartet and an experimental classical/pop fusion group. Assisting in operatic productions in Manchester. I have also had behind the scenes work experience with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Glasgow.

 

Name: Paul Taylor
Skills: Composer, Player, Soloist, Teacher, Writer
Address: London, United Kingdom
Links: Website     E-mail
 
Trombone poetry is a solo performance project that interweaves music and poetry by Paul Taylor in a kind of poetry slalom. Music frames poems; poems shape music.

The music of trombone poetry is mostly improvised, in free-wheeling versions of jazz classics or original compositions. Depending on the occasion, the repertoire may also include folk and classical music.

For more information, please see: http://www.trombonepoetry.com http://www.myspace.com/trombonepoetry

 

Name: Helen Temperley
Skills: Composer, Player, Singer, Teacher (viola player)
Phone: +44 (0)7816 529 815
Address: Willesden Avenue, Manchester M13 0ZN, United Kingdom
Links: E-mail
 
I am a recent graduate of the University of Manchester. I gained a first class BMus degree before going on to receive a masters in composition, studying with Philip Grange. I also specialised in contemporary performance on the viola, studying with Louise Lansdown at the Royal Northern college of music.

I am now teching creative curriculum in primary schools (thats a mixture of drama, music and movement) and also teach music theory and viola privately. I also gig with my string quartet and am involved in numerous projects as a writer, singer and viola player. I am listen to all kinds of music from contemporary classical, to jungle, to rock, to jazz!

 

Name: Mark Stephen Thomas
Skills: Player (Violinist)
Phone: +44 (0)1273 558627
Address: 32 Graham Avenue, Brighton BN1 8HA, United Kingdom
Links:
 
I am a violinist (21) new to the Brighton area looking for any work playing, paid or unpaid. I attended the Royal College of Music junior department between 1995 and 2000, and have recently completed a BMus degree in music at Goldsmiths College, London. I have much experience of ensemble and orchestral playing, and this is the kind of work I am mainly seeking. I also have some experience of session work both in the worlds of Classical and Popular music.

 

 


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