Jonathan Fournel - Chopin & Szymanowski - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Born in Sarrebourg in 1993, Jonathan Fournel started playing the piano at age 7. In 2000, he began studying with Marianne Henry at the Conservatory of Sarreguemines, continuing with Stéphane Seban the following year at the Conservatory of Strasbourg, while also taking private lessons with Patricia Pagny and Gisèle Magnan. He was admitted to the Musikhochschule of Saarbrüken, Germany in 2006, where he studied under Robert Leonardy and Jean Micault. In 2009, he continued his studies with Bruno Rigutto, Brigitte Engerer, Claire Désert and Michel Dalberto at the Conservatory of Paris (CNSMDP), where he also majored in collaborative piano under the tutelage of Jean-Frédéric Neuburger. Since 2016, Jonathan is an artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Chapel in Belgium, where he receives coaching from Louis Lortie and Avo Kouyoumdjian. He has participated in masterclasses given by many great pianists, including Laurent Cabasso, Aldo Ciccolini, and Jean Micault. On the present , he presents Brahms' Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, and the Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor.

Colasanti / Orch Verdi / Iorio - In-Canto [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/27/2011

Limited orange colored vinyl. Tucked away from the sprawl of Los Angeles, nestled off the 605 Freeway, lies one of Jazz music's best kept secrets. A composer, renegade, and wanderer whose musical journey is gaining a second wind. Garrett Saracho has lived many lives, from being a fresh-faced signee to Impulse Records in the early 1970s to working on blockbuster films to touring with his cousins' iconic rock group Redbone decades later. But while his stories have always been pushed to the background, this next chapter finds him standing tall at center stage. As a teenager, he befriended and began playing with luminaries of the Watts jazz scene, brought together by Horace Tapscott's legendary Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra, and would go on to bring the same musicians with him to Westwood and Laurel Canyon as a UCLA college student. When he finally emerged with a record deal, it was in proper fashion- he was Impulse Records' first debut signee in several years, praised by the New York Times as Inchthe Impulse West Coast ContingentInch.