Learn from Great Improvisation Teachers

Jeff Pifher is an award-winning instrumentalist, composer, and producer. Recently he has received wide recognition with the release of the self produced short documentary In the Same Direction: Jeff Pifher & Socrates' Trial (2020) which chronicles Jeff and his band's latest projects garnering 24 “Best Documentary” and “Best Music” awards from film festivals worldwide.

Cellist Hamilton Berry's eclectic taste has led him to pursue a variety of performing, arranging, and composing projects in the New York area and beyond. A member of the Grammy-nominated PUBLIQuartet, the Toomai String Quintet, Founders, Decoda, and The Con Brio Ensemble, Hamilton has also performed with Ensemble Connect, NOVUS NY, The Orchestra of St.

Andreas Grosskopf is a saxophonist, composer, sax-teacher and author of several method-books and his own blog. He sees himself as a kind of funnel where you put in all kinds of influences and musical styles and out of his saxophone’s bell comes his music: Jazz, Funk and Rock spiced with Worldmusic and ambient sounds.

I am a GRAMMY Nominated educator, trumpeter, guitarist, bassist, pianist, singer/songwriter, composer/arranger, drummer and recording artist. I graduated from University of Indianapolis with a Bachelor’s of Arts with a concentration in Jazz Studies and the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music with a Master’s in Jazz Studies, specifically in trumpet.

I'm a musician and teacher specialized in Pop/Rock Guitar, Classical Guitar, Rock/Pop Songwriting and Arranging Music. I graduated with a Trinity LTCL degree (level 6 QCF diploma) in Classical Guitar at the Giuseppe Verdi Music Academy (Venice), there I also achieved Rock & Pop Guitar Grade 8, Vocals Grade 8 and Music Theory Grade 8.

As a professional drummer, Maxime blends influences ranging from pop to Middle Eastern music, from jazz to rock, and Indian traditional music and electronica. His outlook on music and style were shaped by numerous experiences playing with Grammy Award Winners and renowned musicians such as Steve Vai, Tigran Hamasyan, Paul Winter, Mono Neon, Mayssa Karaa and many others.

Hello, I am a guitar player, composer and teacher. I´ve studied in ESMAE (Porto, Portugal) where i got a college degree in Jazz Guitar and master degree in Music Education (ESE-ESMAE). I´ve been an active musician and teacher since 2008, and these days I am composing and producing for the project SONO and teaching in Professional Jazz Course of Conservatório de Musica da Jobra.

Gina Benalcázar López is an Ecuadorian-Honduran-American composer and low brass specialist. Influenced by straight-ahead jazz, latin-jazz, and popular Latin American music, Gina has performed with and arranged/composed for various size bands ranging in style from Classical Chamber to Jazz Big Band and Salsa Bands.

Griffin Woodard is a composer, bass clarinetist, and bandleader who believes in the transformative power of music. Woodard’s pieces have been performed by a variety of esteemed ensembles and soloists, including the NEC Jazz Composers’ Workshop Orchestra, the Bach Festival Orchestra of Bethlehem, the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, concert pianist Michelle Cann, and organist Stephen…

World touring Tunisian/British Violinist, and composer Yasmine Azaiez studied classical music at the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School in the UK then went on to study Improvisation and Composition at the New England Conservatory in Boston.