Focus Area: Jazz Piano
Theo Walentiny
Name: Theo Walentiny From: Maplewood, New Jersey Education: The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music I play and teach: Piano Biography: Pianist, composer and improviser Theo Walentiny was born in 1996 and raised in New Jersey, growing up in an artistic home, his father an abstract painter and his mother an art therapist. He…
Haeun Joo
From: Busan, South Korea Education: Berklee College of Music; SUNY Purchase – M.M. I play and teach: Piano Biography: Haeun Joo is a jazz pianist from South Korea. She started playing the piano when she was five years old. While she was studying classical piano, she also played classical and gospel as an accompanist in…
Maya Keren
From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania My inspiration: Some inspirations include Thelonious Monk, Olivier Messiaen, Erykah Badu, Adrienne Lenker, Geri Allen, Nicole Mitchell, Mary Lou Williams, Kris Davis, Angelica Sanchez, Pinegrove, Raavi, Scriabin, Bach, John Coltrane. Gwendolyn Brooks, adrienne maree brown, Octavia Butler, Grace Lee Boggs have to make the list as well. Few people know that I……
Lafayette Harris
From: Baltimore, Maryland My inspiration: Scott Joplin and Bud Powell Education: BM Piano, Oberlin Conservatory (1985); MM, Rutger’s University (1990) I play and teach: Piano My other artistic/musical endeavors: Regularly performs with Houston Person and Archie Shepp Personal Teaching Statement: I believe that everyone can make progress as a musician. It all depends on how…
Roger Lent
From: I grew up in Houston, Texas but have lived in NYC for my adult life I started teaching music in…1997 I started teaching at the Conservatory in… 2005 My inspiration: In no specific order… J.S. Bach, Charlie Parker, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Frederic Chopin, Wynton Marsalis, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Erroll Garner,…