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From the New York Philharmonic's David Geffen Hall to the DIY basements of Brooklyn, Lopez has worked beside many luminaries of jazz, classical, poetry, and experimental music, including Fred Moten, John Zorn, Okkyung Lee, Ingrid Laubrock, Tony Malaby, Tyshawn Sorey, Bill Nace, Chris Potter, Edwin Torres, Tom Rainey, Cecilia Lopez, Sun Ra Arkestra, Susan Alcorn, Mette Rasmussen, and many others.
Laura Cocks is a flutist who works in a wide array of environments as a performer of creative and experimental musics & “creates intricate, spellbinding works that have a visceral physicality to them” (Foxy Digitalis). Laura is the executive director and flutist of TAK ensemble, “one of the most prominent ensembles in the united States practicing truly experimental music” (I care if you listen), and performs regularly as a soloist and improvisor and in ensemble contexts with groups such as Talea Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, Wet Ink Ensemble, and many others in NYC and abroad.
Knoegel began playing his first gigs at the age of 15, starting off at small clubs and weddings. As his talent and capabilities began to grow, so did the size of the venues he played at. He began playing at concert halls, theaters, and exposition centers, most notably the Regattabar in Boston, Mass. and the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, Calif. Currently based in Brooklyn, Matt is establishing himself as an original and necessary voice on his instrument.
Bassist, James Robbins is an international bassist and composer currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. He has played with jazz giants past and present such as: Clark Terry, Billy Taylor, George Benson, James Moody, Freddie Hubbard, Eric Lewis, Johnny O’Neal, Gerald Clayton, Sullivan fortner, Nikolas Anadolis, Stephane Tremble, Joel Fram, and many more. He also played Columbian electro group 'Delsonido' and rock band 'Thank You Scientist'. James teaches part time at the American School of Modern Music in Paris.
NJ native/Brooklyn-based Jon Elbaz transfixes you with his craft, soul, and imagination at the piano. He headlines weekly at NY’s Smalls and performs sideman duties with others at Dizzy’s, Smoke, Fat Cat and elsewhere. With a repertoire of more than 800 songs, he recalls the great jazz pianists of the past with affection, swing, poignancy, and virtuosic control.
Ron Shalom is a bassist, producer, pop-star, and daxophonist
Daniel Fishkin is a luthier, composer, and daxophonist
Steve Long (he/him) is a queer composer, pianist, improviser and native Brooklynite. His work explores the relationship between composition and improvisation. Learn more at steve-long.com
Jess Tsang is a percussionist, researcher, and improviser based in Brooklyn, NY. She is endlessly examining how objects shape our lives, and how that might be translated into music. Learn more at jesstsang.net
Lately Akiva has been enjoying slowly writing songs by process of long walks and occasional journaling, as well as organizing weekly no-barrier-to-entry conduction sessions. They play upright bass and electric bass in a handful of rock and improvised-music bands that are all different combinations of the same six people who are mostly named Maya. Akiva is from Newton, MA and will graduate Princeton University mere days from now.
Matt Hull is a trumpet player and composer from Boston, MA, currently residing in Brooklyn, NY.
Mobéy Lola Irizarry (they/she) is a genderqueer composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, and transdisciplinary artist. Based in Brooklyn, they hail from the Puerto Rican diaspora in Hartford, CT, and are a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. They make within the lineages of decolonial uprisings, collections of tiny mirrors at queer clubs, and the precolonial languages of the drum and the braid.
Gladstone Butler is a New York based artist working with percussion and electronics. His work takes the form of recorded media, installations and performance. While percussion is often only tied to the act of striking an object, Gladstone sees percussion as an expressive manifestation of time architectures that binds humans, framed by the larger rhythmical walls of sun-rise and set. In Gladstone's work, musical rhythm becomes a unique tool for celebrating nonlinearity, asymmetry and difference in society.
Mat Muntz is a composer, bassist, and bagpiper based in New York and Croatia. Whether working as a composer and bandleader on projects like The Vex Collection and his own sextet Phantom Islands, as a longtime collaborator with vocalist Astrid Kuljanic, or as an in-demand sideman in New York's jazz and experimental music scenes, Mat brings his improvisational sensitivity and fiercely independent sound to every performance…
Raffi Boden is an innovative cellist and educator and a current graduate student at The Juilliard School. He has experience teaching cello, violin, music theory and improvisation. Raffi was the winner of the 2018 Oberlin Concerto Competition and performed as a soloist with both the Orchestra and the Contemporary Music Ensemble…
Simone Baron is a polyglot pianist, accordionist and composer who has performed and toured throughout western Europe, the Middle East, Canada, the US, and Brazil. Steeped in her Judeo-Roman roots, her work is at once vividly imaginative yet honestly lyrical, driven with relentless intensity yet colorful and engaging, uncompromising and complex yet playful, wondrous and irreverent; often emotionally intense adventures inspired by unlikely and disparate muses…
Wendy Eisenberg is an improviser and songwriter who uses guitar, pedals, the tenor banjo, the computer, the synthesizer and the voice. Their work spans genres, from jazz to noise to avant-rock to delicate songs; their performances span venues, from international festivals to intimate basements…
Kayvon Gordon was born and raised in Detroit. At a young age, he was taken under the mentorship of legendary trumpeter Marcus Belgrave. Later, he went on to the University of Michigan where he studied with Robert Hurst and Benny Green. Gordon has performed In Europe, Africa, South Asia, The United Arab Emirates, and North America…
Miles Okazaki is a NYC-based guitarist originally from Port Townsend, a small seaside town in Washington State. His approach to the guitar is described by the New York Times as “utterly contemporary, free from the expectations of what it means to play a guitar in a group setting — not just in jazz, but any kind.”…
Maya Keren is a pianist, vocalist, composer, and songwriter from Philadelphia. They are interested in the process of environing people, voices, instruments, and sounds in ways that invite connection with one’s erotic instinct, embody compassionate and queer relations with the self and the collective, and destabilize learned systems of domination…
