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Liam Marchant

Kevin — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 15:53:06 +0000

Liam is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who plays piano, saxophone, guitar, and electric bass. He has been teaching for over 9 years and works to help students reach their creative potential by focusing on material that they want to learn. From Bach to Katy Perry, or Oscar Peterson to Charlie Puth; Liam wants to integrate what you love about music into being a rounded and creative person. Coming from a variety of musical backgrounds in blues, rock, jazz, and classical, Liam works to curate and compose exercises to help students reach their goals. Liam holds two degrees from the University of Idaho in saxophone performance and music composition and is currently pursuing a masters in composition at DePaul University. If you are wanting to get better at reading chord progressions, work on a Bach invention, dive into improvisation, or learn how to write your own songs, Liam would be an excellent fit for you or your student!

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Ben Jossi

Kevin — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:25:46 +0000

Ben Jossi is an up and coming composer, performer, and educator based on Chicago’s North Side. Originally from Saint Paul, Minnesota, Ben moved to the city in 2019 to pursue a Bachelors of Music in Composition and Production at Columbia
College Chicago where he recently graduated this past spring. As a composer, Ben is active in media projects nationally and his work has been used in Gut Dreams, a five play mashup of new student writers at Columbia, a summer long interview series called Stuck in Your Stereo on WCRX, and recently a short film debut with Red Rectangle. This spring, he worked with the graduate students in Columbia’s theater department on incidental music for a live reading of poetry called
Neutral Grounds. As well as a movement performance accompanied by a concerto for
flute and chamber ensemble entitled rinding Gleam As a performer, Ben has a strong background as a jazz saxophonist holding soloist recognitions from Elmhurst University, University of Notre Dame, and University of Wisconsin: Eau Claire and being a recipient of the Louis Armstrong Award. He has been featured alongside Vulfpeck member Woody Goss, Hippocampus’ Decarlo Jackson, and Tia Fuller of Beyonce. He also has played keys as a musical theater accompanist and has been an on-call piano sub for recording engineer Nick Eipers’
course on jazz production at Columbia. He now runs his own band called Retrospect. This is a group where jazz improvisation dances with Latin rhythms, hip hop grooves, with a dash of Americana. They have been featured as a headliner at Manifest Urban
Arts Fest, WCRX’s Sessions@33, and the Epiphany Center for the Arts. As an educator, Ben is both a learner and a teacher. As a student, he has worked with GRAMMY nominated Ilya Levison, Emmy winning Brandon Campbell, Sharel Cassity, saxophonist for the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Groups and Dan White, currently on tour with Kurt Elling. As an educator, Ben has worked with all ages from four years old to late teens mainly at day camps teaching social skills and the arts. This past summer he worked as a unit head for apachi camps with JCC Chicago and worked for six years in
the ‘Twin Cities with the Minnesota JCC. Ben is based on the north side, he works in Lincoln Park, Lakeview, North
Center, Roscoe Village, Lincoln Square, Ravenswood, Edgewater and Rogers Park.

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Michael Hudson-Cassanova

Kevin — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:23:34 +0000

Michael Hudson-Casanova is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music educator currently residing in Chicago. He is originally from Sterling Heights, MI and he began his music career playing saxophone in the Detroit Civic Jazz Band under the direction of that city’s most in-demand working jazz musicians. He holds degrees in music education and jazz studies from Western Michigan University and Temple University.

Michael has been teaching privately and in classroom settings for over 10 years. He has created many of his own lesson materials for beginners and advanced players alike. Michael loves helping his students learn the music they are most invested in, and has experience in jazz, classical, pop/rock, and everything in between.

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Jack Smith

Kevin — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 16:57:13 +0000

Jack Smith is a Saxophonist, Composer and Educator from Madison, Wisconsin. Since moving to Chicago in 2017 he has had the privilege of studying with Chicago’s premiere Jazz Artists including Dana Hall, Dennis Carroll, Scott Burns, Sharel Cassity, Mike Allemana, and Jim Trompeter. He has performed with artists such as Nicholas Payton, Ingrid Jenson, and Bob Sheppard. Jack earned his BFA in Jazz Studies from DePaul University in 2021.

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