Áron Tálas, Danny Ziemann, Jorge Rossy
Biography Áron Tálas, Danny Ziemann, Jorge Rossy
Áron Tálas
The versatile musician Áron Tálas, is winner of the Junior Prima, Gramofon and Artisjus awards, Montreux Jazz Competition finalist, voted multiple times as the best Hungarian keyboard player by the readers of jazzma.hu and jazz.hu. He has played drums with Lionel Loueke, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and played the piano with Jorge Rossy and Ben Monder. He is a permanent or occasional contributor to the Mihály Borbély Quartet, Bacsó Kristóf Triad, and many other Hungarian bands. He participated in one of Europe’s most prestigious scholarship programs, the Focusyear. His main band Aron Talas Trio released 3 albums only with Talas’ compositions, which earned critical acclaim. Their second album „Little Beggar” became the „Jazz Album of the Year” in Gramofon magazine. He recorded two solo albums, „Beats From My Heart” and „Blue Enough”. His latest project „Sitmob”, an unusual keys-drums duo which shows multiple dimensions of street music, playing and improvising beats on the spot. He worked with the Danubia Orchestra, playing Mozart with his own jazz arrangement of a piano concerto, and also did other trio revisions of Bernstein, Handel and other composer’s works. Aron Talas is a member of the Jazz Faculty of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest. He also teaches improvisation at the Semmelweis University, and he visited the Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem as guest teacher.
Danny Ziemann
For five-time author and internationally-touring jazz bassist Danny Ziemann, being a musician was inevitable. He began learning music at age nine and discovered jazz bass a few years later. Love of music paved the way for Danny to earn two degrees from Eastman School of Music. In 2017, he was the first bassist with the Focusyear Artist Diploma Band in Switzerland, and in the Fall of 2018, he was the interim professor of Jazz Bass at the Eastman School of Music. In addition to performing and teaching, he also records, produces educational video courses for the website Discover Double Bass, and founded Low Down Publishing, a company producing music education books. Danny is a lifelong educator, dedicated to advancing opportunities for jazz bassists.
Jorge Rossy
is internationally recognised as one of the most influential drummers of his generation. His sideman work includes over 180 recordings with renowned jazz musicians such as Brad Mehldau, Ethan Iverson, Kevin Hays, Albert Sanz, Mark Turner, Chris Cheek, Seamus Blake, Joshua Redman, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jakob Bro, Enrico Pieranunzi and Steve Swallow, among many others. Jorge has also toured with some jazz greats including Charlie Haden, Wayne Shorter, Lee Konitz, Carla Bley, and Joe Lovano. Besides his work as a drummer, Jorge has a distinctive voice on the vibes, marimba and piano, and a unique sound as a composer and band leader. Since his first CD under his own name, Jorge Rossy Trio Wicca (Fresh Sound), recorded in 2006, Jorge has recorded over 30 albums as a band leader or co-leader, to critical acclaim from publications such as Jazz Times, Downbeat, Jazz Around, and All About Jazz.
