March 2, 2007, 7:30pm Moore Theatre
(School matinee March 2, 11 am)

View More Music @ The Moore 2007 Documentary

View Mashups from More Music @ The Moore 2007:
"Strings Mashup"
"Klezmer/Metal Mashup"

J'nai Bridges (opera) is a sophomore at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City where she majors in classical voice – Mezzo Soprano. This past summer J’nai was accepted to participate in the highly acclaimed Centro Studi Lyrica summer program in Noveltria, Italy where she performed scenes from various operas. She debuted in the chorus of her first professional opera, TOSCA, in her hometown of Tacoma, Washington in her senior year of high school at Charles Wright Academy. Past awards include gold medalist in classical voice and piano for ACT-SO of the Washington State NAACP. As a former participant in the Math Engineer Science Achievement  Girls in Science and Technology  Program, J’nai is  described  as, “perfectly at home in both the theoretical and practical realms of science and math as she is with the style, aesthetics, and philosophies of music.”  J’nai’s goal is to work hard developing her voice as she aspires to one day become a world class opera performer.

Nick Dumas (fiddler), 16, is a junior at Chrysalis High School in Woodinville and is an award winning bluegrass fiddler.  He has been playing the fiddle since the age of 12 and has an undeniable passion for bluegrass music.  He is very active in performing with his family bluegrass band, The Three Generations, who travel and perform all ver the state.  The band consists of his grandfather, Harold Christensen, his mom, Tammy Dumas, his aunt, Val Ranz and great friends, Austin McGregor, Chrisann Gray and Derek Gray. Nick doesn’t limit his musical talent to just the fiddle, he also plays the mandolin, flat pickin’ guitar, sings and composes. Upcoming festivals include The Darrington Bluegrass Festival and the Long Beach Bluegrass Festival. His influences are Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Mountain Heart, Rhonda Vincent and The Rage and Cadillac Sky. He hopes to be on the stage with these “big boys” of bluegrass someday!
www.myspace.com/fiddlinnick

Alexa Jarvis (vocalist), 17, attends Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences. Alexa began singing in choirs since the age of 7 when she started in the Northwest Girl Choir. At 13, she joined a selective high school vocal ensemble called Vocalpoint! Seattle. Now a featured soloist in the group, Alexa can be heard in several performances throughout the year.  Alexa studies classical voice but her preference is soul music.  Her musical icon is Aretha Franklin. “I am a driven, passionate, and dedicated singer/musician. I continue to grow as a singer and musician every day, and I feel blessed to obtain the love and gifts I have for music.”

Peter Johnson (composer/violin), 16, attends Bishop Blanchet High. When Peter was 3 years old he began to play jazz on the piano, by ear; at age 4, he began Suzuki violin classes. Over the past 12 years Peter has honed his skills as a classical violinist. He now plays with the Seattle Youth Symphony, the Blanchet Orchestra and Jazz Band, 2 different church bands and a professional Jazz Duet called “This Just In” that performs in restaurants, parties and corporate events. He is currently in production on a Blues Gospel CD with the James Jiles Band. Peter also plays other instruments (guitar, synthetic drums, harmonica) and in many other styles with various local bands (Blues, Rock, Jazz, Country and Blue Grass). Peter also enjoys computer music composition and DVD video production, camera work and sound editing.
http://krazifiddler.googlepages.com

Rob Lusk-Fauquet (laptop), 14, lives in Lake Forest Park Washington attends the Room Nine Community School in Shoreline. In his own words: “I am quite new to the world of electronic music but am getting into it really fast. I am very lucky to have had the training I had. One of my teachers at school is a computer genius and showed me some programs one day. That’s how I got started. I had past musical experience and he wanted me to try something new. After a while I really got into making techno and playing it for my class. Soon I started showing it to my saxophone teacher who is also a d.j. He showed me some new programs and I started taking lessons on mixing and arrangement. Now I put my music out on my myspace page. Look it up!”
www.myspace.com/rmll

Shpilkes—(pronounced shpill–kiss klezmer) is a Yiddish word for that "ants in the pants" feeling when you must dance while listening to great klezmer music. Shpilkes also is the next generation of Northwest Jewish musicians, having been mentored by one of the area’s klezmer pioneers, Wendy Marcus, former band leader of The Mazeltones. Shpilkes draws its members from several Seattle high schools:  Sam Gray, tenor sax, Garfield High School; Aaron Kanter, bass, Garfield High School; Spencer Davenport, drummer, Roosevelt High School; Charles Wicklander, pianist, Nathan Hale High School; Eve Smason-Marcus, vocals and violin, Nathan Hale; Palma London, violinist, Lakeside School; and Aaron Calderon, trombone, Shorecrest High School. Members of Shpilkes have played Bar/Bat Mitzvahs and at numerous functions in the Jewish community. They will perform at Seattle's Folklife Festival in May. L'chayim! To
Life!

Sam Shrieve (singer/songwriter), 17, is a senior at Roosevelt High School, where he studies the arts such as music, drama, photography and poetry.  From an early age, music was a large part of Sam's life.  He was surrounded by a musical environment, which sparked his passion immediately.  By middle school he was an award winning drummer, who in high school picked up guitar, piano, bass, and vocals, and began songwriting.  In attempts to study all aspects of his craft, his music is influenced by not only contemporary music, but classical, latin, world, jazz, funk, and much more. Sam is also a member of the Poets Laureate society at his school, and is an active member of the theatre department.  He intends to continue the study of his crafts by attending colleges for the arts. Sam is a composer, vocalist, and plays drums, keyboard, guitar, and bass.

Theme For Murder: “We’re just a bunch of kids who are completely different but by the hand of fate we were brought together and we are like brothers now. We are influenced by several musicians, to name a few there's Yngwie Malmsteen, Tom Delonge, Corey Taylor, Skid Row, Judas Priest, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Trivium, As I Lay Dying, Tiger Army, Bullet For My Valentine and Bleeding Through. We try to be positive and influential to others whether they support us or not.”  Band members are Gordon McPherson from Auburn, doing vocals/throat and guitar; “Ozz” Adam Dickinson,  also from Auburn, doing guitar and screams; Andrew Kolas, from Federal Way, shredding up the lead guitar; Damien Ward, the killer 14 year old drummer, Thomas Jefferson High School in  Federal Way ; and “Zo” Lorenzo Jackson, who is also from Federal Way, beating on the bass guitar,”  www.myspace.com/themeformurder

Julia Winn (composer/piano), 17, is a senior at Holy Names Academy.  Her primary instrument is the piano.  She has been writing music since age 7 but it is only in the past two years that she has begun to study composition seriously.  She has been a participant of the Seattle Symphony’s Young Composers’ Workshop and took third place in the 2006 WSMTA Composition Competition.  In the summer of 2006 she studied under Peter Gilbert, Orianna Webb, and Dan Visconti at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Julia has taken film scoring classes with Hummie Mann and over the past year has composed and produced scores for seven original films through Reel Grrls, a local organization dedicated to providing professional training to teenage girls with an interest in filmmaking. Julia is currently studying with Tom Baker. www.myspace.com/juliawinn

Sarah Lovrien (student visual media artist)  Sarah is a filmmaker from Seattle who is currently enrolled at Seattle Central Community College.  Learning the basics of camera work, composition and editing through Reel Grrls in high school, she has jumped headfirst into the world of independent filmmaking and has worked as a  freelance editor, camera operator and producer. She has done projects with local groups such as Northwest Film Forum, The Now Device and Northwest Actor’s Studio. Sarah currently works with Reel Grrls as an intern, helping to bring other girls’ stories to the big screen.

THE NOW DEVICE ( visual media team) THE NOW DEVICE was founded in 2003 by visual media artists Scott K. James, Sean Frego and Rod Hatfield. THE NOW DEVICE is internationally known for transforming unique events into unforgettable experiences. Their dynamic real-time visual compositions effectively deliver messages, add immersive atmosphere and intensify experience. Clients include Xbox, Getty Images, MSN, The Learning Channel.  www.thenowdevice.com

Taylor Romar (dancer) Sixteen year old dancer Taylor Romar, a junior at Bellevue Christian High School, has been dancing since she was five years old studying ballet, jazz, tap and modern. Currently, Taylor studies ballet and modern at the Pacific Northwest Ballet School, where she is influenced by Sonia Dawkins, modern instructor/ choreographer for More Music @ The Moore.

Sonia Dawkins (choreographer)  Founder and Artistic director of SD Prism Dance Theater, Sonia holds a BFA from the University of the Arts in Pennsylvania and an MA from SUNY College at Brockport. Ms. Dawkins has studied at the Edna Manley Performing Arts and Visual Arts College and Jamaica School of Dance, developing her expertise in folk dances. Ms. Dawkins is presently on the faculty at Pacific Northwest Ballet School teaching modern dance. She has taught and choreographed for Seattle Theatre Group’s DANCE this… training and performance program since 2004.

Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), STG Artist-in-Residence & MM@M Music Director

Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) is a composer, performer, violinist, and bandleader who seamlessly blends funk, rock, hip-hop and classical music into a new sonic vision that is far out and creative in another world. He is a classical-urban ambassador for the next generation, and for a widening audience, on a growing national and international scene, he's simply Revolutionary.

Voted #3 Best Classical Moment of 2003 by the New York Times and raved by critics from classical and popular music fields alike, DBR has collaborated with Philip Glass, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vernon Reid, DJ's Radar, Spooky, and Scientific, Susan Sarandon, Cassandra Wilson, and an array of orchestras and chamber ensembles. His dramatic soul-inspiring pieces range from orchestral scores to energetic chamber works to rock songs and electronica, all embracing modern musical genres woven with a multicolored spectrum of popular music. His 9-piece band, DBR & THE MISSION, features an amplified string quartet, drum kit, keyboards, vocalist, DJ, and laptopist. The orchestras of Dallas, Memphis, San Antonio, and St. Louis have performed or commissioned his works, and Bill T. Jones and the Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL) regularly collaborate with him---DBR is the Music Director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Assistant Composer-in-Residence of the OSL.

DBR has performed his arrangements of Cassandra Wilson's Glamoured with the jazz vocalist and her quintet while conducting the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Buffalo Philharmonic; jammed with his band at the celebrated Joe's Pub in New York City; rocked with DJ Spooky at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival; and composed music for and performed in the European premiere of Bill T. Jones' Another Evening at the RomaEuropa Festival in Italy. As Artist-in-Residence at Arizona State University, DBR premiered ROCKESTRA: A Hip Hop Music and Dance Party featuring DJ Radar and returned to collaborate and perform with Philip Glass in SEEN AND HEARD: Philip Glass and Daniel Roumain Together on Screen, Stage and in Sound.

Hundreds of people at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center applauded the premiere of DBR's String Quartet No. 4, Angelou, a musical portrait of Maya Angelou composed for string quartet, turntables and laptop; it's the most recent addition to his on-going series of string quartets depicting leaders from the civil rights era (others include Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Adam Clayton Powell). Current projects include Vision Blinding (his fourth, evening-length solo show) for violin, video, and voice; 24 Bits: Hip Hop Studies and Etudes performed by DBR on piano and laptop; and Blind Date (the most recent Bill T. Jones/DBR collaboration), a large-scale work for multiple video installations, a classical violinist, two throat-singers, and the company.

DBR has been recognized as one of the Top 100 New Yorkers by New York Resident Magazine; appeared on the catwalk for Perry Ellis during fashion week; been interviewed by Tavis Smiley; featured on the pages of XXL magazine and The New York Times; and writes a column, DBR Pulse, for DRUM magazine in London. STRINGS magazine published one of his Hip Hop Studies and Etudes in February 2005.