Music

Lilith Liu

is a jazz vocalist, graduated from renowned Tianjin Conservatory. She was given a full scholarship to pursue her studies of Musical Theatre Performance at Oklahoma City University, She started to Perform at Jazz clubs worldwide ever since. Lilith was invited to perform on the Chinese premire and press conference of Oscar wining movie LALA LAND by its music department. As one of the youngest Chinese jazz diva,her collaborated with top musicians from New York,shanghai and Beijing, her already extensive stage experience has let her develop aunique repertoire. Through her careful selection of songs, she pays tribute to not only her main vocal influences like Nina Simone, Betty Carter, Anita O’Day or Ella Fitzgerald, but also to her inspiring musical heroes like Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Chet Baker or Art Blakey.Her vocal performance combines delicacy and technical mastery for soulful renditions of classics without neglecting improvisation essential to this art form.

Michał Ciesielski

Composer, arranger and jazz pianist. He completed his studies in the Academy of Music in Gdańsk, where he received his master’s degree as a jazz composer and jazz pianist. He also studied for a year in the Institut of Jazz in Katowice.

He has composed almost one hundred compositions (contemporary music, film and theatre music, chamber and symphonic music as well as pop songs and many more). He was awarded in several international and national music competitions such as: the International Krzysztof Komeda Composition Competition, Big Sky Jazz Festival, RCK Pro Jazz Festival, School & Jazz Festival and more.

Apart from being the leader in Confusion Project, with which he recorded 3 albums and played over 100 concerts, Michał performs in many other bands, such as: Ad Shave, Alicja Serowik Quartet, Visegrad Quintet, Tribute To Turnau, Gaba Janusz Quintet. He also performs with his solo project “Between Black & White”

As a pianist Michał toured all around Poland as well as Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Nederlands, Russia, China and Kazakhstan.

Singer, host in both Chinese and English. Sue is an experienced singer who pays attention to musical technique as well as cultural and social significance. Her timbre is full and rich, and her sound processing is agile and changeable. Her understanding and presentation of music is also integrated into the world's feelings and styles. The delicacy of the East and the power of the West. Sue has been studying traditional vocal soprano/sub-soprano in the city choir since he was 10 years old, and obtained a vocal seven-level certificate. The university began to perform frequently on stage to win awards. In 2014, he began to cooperate with musicians from various countries to perform jazz-based, pop, soul music, R&B and other styles of music, showing the flexibility of melody and the flow of feelings in singing improvisation. Sue can sing in Chinese, English, Korean and Cantonese. Leading duets, quartets, quintets, and also participating in big jazz bands.

Rich experience in performance/awarding:

Perform solo performances in well-known Beijing live houses such as Jianghu, The Bricks, DDC, etc.; perform a special fusion jazz performance with the quartet at BlueNote Beijing in November 2020; and perform a special fusion jazz performance with the quintet at the Jinyu Intelligent Manufacturing Factory in October 2020. "Do live performances; In 2019, he was invited to be a guest performer at the "Peking University Stanford Center" U.S. National Day celebration; in 2019, he was the resident singer of the Sunday Swing Ball "Balboa night" Quartet at The Bricks, and in Hong Kong in 2018 as "The Italian Sea Group’s first Asian VIP dinner event as a bilingual host and singer; invited to perform at the NGCC 2017 annual ceremony of the Chinese youth elite community; in 2016 at the Sofitel Wanda hotel in residence; Poly Group’s 2015 time museum auction VIP Guest performance at the appreciation party; in 2014, he participated in the adaptation of the Broadway musical "The Wild Party" by the American director Andrew Delo (founder of the "Future Dance Company" under the Peking University Film School), and sang "Buenos Aires" from the classic opera "Evita". He used to be the designated publicity singer of "Coca-Cola" in Jiangsu area from 2005 to 2007; as a guest singer, he participated in the recording of the evening show of China Education TV, and participated in the recording of various variety shows of Jiangsu TV, etc.

Laptop improviser, noise player. By processing meaningless and fragmented sounds in a nonlinear-time approach, she explores the theme of ”time and existence” especially in various environmental contexts. Besides solo project, she is also the member of the psychedelic noise group “VagusNerve” and free improvised duo “Mind Fiber”.

Kyle was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up in Bloomington. He currently lives between Verona, Italy and Beijing, China, teaching and performing Jazz all over the world. He studied music performance and education at Berklee College of Music, Indiana University, and the University of Northern Colorado, completing his doctorate in 1995. In 1991 he received the prestigious Fulbright Grant for a year of pedagogical research in Hungary, exploring new methods of teaching improvisation.

Sue Wang Wang Yisu (China)

Singer, host in both Chinese and English. Sue is an experienced singer who pays attention to musical technique as well as cultural and social significance. Her timbre is full and rich, and her sound processing is agile and changeable. Her understanding and presentation of music is also integrated into the world's feelings and styles. The delicacy of the East and the power of the West. Sue has been studying traditional vocal soprano/sub-soprano in the city choir since he was 10 years old, and obtained a vocal seven-level certificate. The university began to perform frequently on stage to win awards. In 2014, he began to cooperate with musicians from various countries to perform jazz-based, pop, soul music, R&B and other styles of music, showing the flexibility of melody and the flow of feelings in singing improvisation. Sue can sing in Chinese, English, Korean and Cantonese. Leading duets, quartets, quintets, and also participating in big jazz bands.

New York BFA, Jazz Department 同樣主修爵士，並在當地從事演出，和一些世界級爵士樂手合作，如Jerome Harris(Sonny Rollins Band), Tex Allen(Gil Evans Orchestra), Andy Mackee(Elvin Jones Quartet), Jason Marshall(Charles Mingus Bigband),Tony Suggs (Pf, ex Count Basie Orchestra ), Koichi Osamu (納浩一,japanese bassist), Giuseppe Bassi ,Gaetano Partipilo, etc.

Classically trained pianist who taught himself jazz piano out of passion, the accomplished pop and jazz musician from Beijing also never fails to stun audiences with his deep baritone voice on the American songbook, an immediate reminder of vocal greats such as Nat King Cole and Dick Haymes.

Huang Sijia (Yiyi) is a young jazz pianist and singer. Born into a family of music in 2001, he is currently studying jazz piano performance at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He studied under Professor Cui Honggen of the Central Conservatory of Music and Professor Zhang Fang of Yamaha artist during the domestic high school. In 2015, he won the third place in the University of Utah Piano Competition, the first place in the Youth Group A of the Brandenburg International Piano Competition, and the third place in the 2016 National Yamaha Scholarship Concerto Competition. In 2017, he was admitted to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music for the classical piano major and was under the guidance of classical musician Awadagin Pratt. I was deeply influenced by jazz music in school, and transferred to the Department of Jazz Studies (Jazz Piano Performance) in 2019 to study with jazz musicians Steve Allee, Sergio Pamies, Christian Li (李谭林) and Michael Clement. Cooperated with a number of jazz musicians-Aaron Jacobs, Phil DeGreg, Craig Bailey, Scott Belck, and was selected as the blue note combo in the school. In 2021, he was admitted to the jazz piano major of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. While studying in the United States, I constantly explored my own music style. Her performance and singing are full of her cute and casual attitude. Someone once commented on her singing: in her, I saw the shadow of Sarah Vaughan and Julie London, but her own characteristics are even more vivid in the performance.

Reload is a party dedicated to one of the UK's most influential genres: UK Garage, and its related genres such as Grime, UK Funky, Jungle, and Dubstep. UK Garage is a genre-straddling bouncy happy melody and dark, intimidating bass, all against the backdrop of infectious skippy drums. It has been influenced by and has influenced, a plethora of iconic UK music genres.

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