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Andy Akiho - Composer, Percussionist
Andy Akiho is an award winning composer and performer with a broad range of interests that stretch from steel pan to western classical music. Akiho was recently featured as a composer on PBS’s “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” and as a percussionist at Carnegie Hall in New York City. His compositions have been recognized by such organizations as Bang On a Can, The Syracuse Society for New Music, The World Steelband Music Festival and as a finalist in the 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards. He has studied formally at the University of South Carolina and the University of North Texas, and is a currently a graduate student in the Manhattan School of Music’s Contemporary Performance Program, where he receives a full scholarship. Also at the Manhattan School, Akiho is an active member of The Claremont Ensemble and TACTUS, groups that recently commissioned and premiered his works Subconscious Inconsistency and I falleN TwO. Akiho’s works have been performed in a variety of venues including John Zorn’s The Stone (NYC), MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, Mass MOCA, and the St. James Theater (Port of Spain, Trinidad). His current commissions include a duet for violin and viola from Katherine Fong and Dov Scheindlin (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra), a duet for cello, pan and electronics from Mariel Roberts (Eastman School Student), a concerto for steel pan and orchestra, and a consortium commission for a prepared piano solo from Vicki Ray (CalArts Piano Faculty) and Vicky Chow (MSM Student). Akiho currently studies composition with Julia Wolfe, co-founder of Bang On a Can.
As a percussionist Akiho has performed with numerous professional ensembles, and his immersion in various genres has given him a unique approach to his primary instrument, the steel pan. Recent engagements include the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra, Ethos Percussion Group (NYC), Djoliba Don West African Drum and Dance Ensemble, Gamelan Lila Muni (Eastman School of Music), Island Close By Steel Band, and many chamber ensembles throughout New York City. After completing his bachelor’s degree in percussion, he made four extensive performance visits to Trinidad, where he performed at the world’s premier steel pan event, Panorama, with the PCS Starlift Steel Orchestra and the Petrotrin Phase II Pan Groove Orchestra. Akiho also won Second Prize in the 2002 World Steelband Music Festival solo competition, where he premiered his own composition, Macqueripe. Since 2003, he has performed and taught steel pan extensively in New York City and has successfully taught his arrangements to many groups including the Sesame Flyers International Steel Orchestra. He has also had the opportunity to perform for former President Bill Clinton, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Donald Trump, Billy Crystal, and baseball greats Yogi Bera and Joe Torre. As an educator, he serves as a lead teaching artist for ArtsConnection, New York’s most comprehensive arts-in-education non-profit organization. Akiho plans to continue his career as a performer while placing an emphasis on his chamber and orchestral compositions.
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Soren Moller - pianist/composer
pianist/composer Soren Moller was raised in a small town in Denmark. He began playing piano at the age of 8, learning both classical and jazz piano from local public school teachers in the community. At the age of 16 Soren Moller was making a living as a piano teacher as well as an accompanist and had started taking lessons in jazz piano from some of Denmark most well known pianists. At 19 he was admitted to the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, Denmark. After graduation Soren Moller continued his studies at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. Here he studied with piano great Kenny Barron as well as Garry Dial and Fred Hersch as a Fulbright Scholarship recipient.
After moving to New York in 2002 Soren Moller quickly earned a reputation as a formidable piano talent. As a leader he was accepted to host an ensemble of the most distinguished musicians from the Manhattan School of Music to a performance at the Carnegie Hall as part of the Carnegie Hall Workshop for Jazz Ensembles.
Together with trombone player Chris Washburne and saxophonist Ole Mathisen, Soren Moller has founded the NYNDK Jazz Collective. An ensemble consisting of established musicians from the Scandinavian and the New York jazz scene. The NYNDK Jazz Collective has toured extensively in Scandinavia and performed at Jazz At Lincoln Center. New York Times Nate Chinen has recognized the NYNDK Jazz Collective as a
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