Horn player, arranger, and composer, John Clark has performed all over the world with a wide diversity of musicians in a variety of musical arenas: jazz, pop, Broadway, classical, and studio work. Clark was awarded the M.M. degree from New...
Sarah Manning is a saxophonist and composer who draws inspiration from surrealist painter Remedios Varo and works to challenge and transmute music theory and history from jazz, experimental, and chamber music into a surreal landscape that activates the subconscious mind...
Award-winning multi-instrumentalist and composer, Anabel Gil Díaz was born in 1994 in Havana, Cuba where she graduated from the Superior Institute of Art. She has developed professionally as a flutist, professor, and producer with the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra under...
In his 22 years as a trombonist, Ben Barnett has made a name for himself in NYC's jazz scene as a consummate trombonist, educator, and musician. Ben is a Grammy-nominated musician who has performed at some of NYC's premier venues...
Described as "a polyrhythmic force… New York City gritty yet still somehow capable of evoking the delicacy of a summer breeze…” (JazzTimes), multidisciplinary drummer, percussionist and composer Brian Shankar Adler transcends the terrain between genre and geographic region, asking: how...
Drummer/composer/educator Claire Arenius has been performing jazz and improvisational music for more than thirty years. Her formative years were spent studying music at the University of Massachusetts, where faculty members Archie Shepp and Max Roach encouraged her commitment to jazz....
Bassist, composer and educator Cameron Brown began his career in the mid-1960s, recording in Europe with George Russell and Don Cherry. These important innovators remain life-long inspirations and influences, along with early mentors and band leaders Sheila Jordan, Roswell Rudd,...
Freddie Bryant has been called “one of the most gifted and versatile guitarists on the scene today” by jazz author Bill Milkowski and “a brilliant young guitarist and composer” by legendary guitarist Kenny Burrell. A versatile musician skilled both in jazz...
Harvey Diamond has been described as "one of the unsung heroes of the Boston jazz scene since the mid-1960s." In the 1970 he was one of Lennie Tristano's last students, and has frequently accompanied celebrated jazz singer Sheila Jordan and...
Stacy Dillard teaches saxophone and ensembles at the VJC Summer Workshop. Stacy attended college at Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. A fortunate encounter with Wynton Marsalis in Dayton, Ohio would turn Dillard's attention to the New York scene. Since...