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Ben horne room arranger1/5/2024 ![]() ![]() She has composed & arranged over 20 works for film, various contemporary classical chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra, wind ensemble, as well as various jazz ensembles including octet, and big band. In May 2019, Davis became the first African-American woman to receive a Bachelor's Degree in Music Composition from Michigan State University as well as the first Michigan State student to receive a Bachelor's Degree in Music Composition and Jazz Studies concurrently. 1995) is a bassist, composer, songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist from Inkster, MI. Instagram, Facebook & Twitter Davis (b. They perform in clubs around the North East, as well as in Lansing Michigan, and are scheduled to record their first album in the Spring of 2021. Gina is now leading a quintet called “The BOUNCE” that was selected for a Chamber Music of America grant in 2019. She has also had the opportunity to play and record with artists and bands such as the Mica Bethea Big Band, The Becoming Quintet, Michael Dease, Rodney Whitaker, Etienne Charles, Ulysses Owens Jr., Christian McBride, David Gibson, Seneca Black, Dick Oatts, and more. She is one of the Administrative Faculty at the Brevard Jazz Institute, under the direction of Michael Dease. Phillips Center, Ulysses Owen’s Jr’s New Century Big Band, and the David Gibson Big Band. She is also a member of Rodney Whitaker’s Jazz Orchestra at Dr. As a low brass douber she subs in bands with Christian McBride, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, The Birdland Big Band, and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. ![]() ![]() Under the mentorship of artists like Michael Dease, Luis Bonilla, David Gibson, and Doug Purviance, she has become one of the most in-demand doublers on the scene. She completed her undergraduate at University of North Florida in Classical Bass Trombone Performance and her graduate studies at Michigan State University in Jazz Studies. Website: Facebook Instagram Benalcazar was born and raised in Queens New York. Simone is a Victoria Artist and plays a Poeta XB Accordion. Simone also serves as curation director for Boulanger Initiative, a DC based non profit advocacy that fights gender discrimination in concert programming. She divides her time leading and touring with her genre-fluid chamber jazz ensemble, Arco Belo, researching chimeric contamination and writing ruin manifestos with her multidisciplinary collectives decay//crystallization and strap on synesthesia. Her compositions have been commissioned and premiered by ensembles and orchestras of various configurations, and she looks forward to releasing and touring a new body of works in the coming season and leading a series of graphic score workshops for participants of all ages. Steeped in her Judeo-Roman roots, the pianist-accordionist was educated at Oberlin and Tel Aviv University and joyfully de-educated in festivals and performances across Europe and the Americas, including residencies at the Banff Centre, Avaloch Farm and Strathmore, gratefully receiving grants from Chamber Music America, the Maryland State Arts Council, and DC Commission for the Arts and Humanities. Her music is of struggle, looking both backwards and forwards, and fueled by self inquiry, dreamwork, and rhizomatic processes. Her work, declared “ego-less, genre agnostic and without expectations” (JazzTimes), is rooted in a deep curiosity about the creative process. a blossoming talent and inventive composer on the rise” (Downbeat Magazine), Simone Baron is an uncompromising genre-queer composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist whose art campaigns for communal deep listening and somatic empathy. Praised as a “bandleader of impressive agility.
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