https://www.martinspitznagel.com/ PHOTOS | VIDEOS Whether performing the masterworks of Scott Joplin or the score to Star Wars, Martin Spitznagel is truly at home on the piano bench. A sought-after performer and decorated composer, he found success early, winning a Yamaha Disklavier at the age of 14 … Continue readingMartin Spitznagel
Larisa Migachyov was born in Russia and began her classical piano training at the age of 5. After immigrating to the United States, she quit music for many years, until, by pure chance, she saw a flyer advertising the San Antonio Ragtime Society on a … Continue readingLarisa Migachyov
VIDEOS Richard Zimmerman, ragtime performer, historian, author and producer, has single-handedly been greatly responsible for the recent worldwide revival of Ragtime. He recorded THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SCOTT JOPLIN and more recently THE COLLECTOR’S HISTORY OF RAGTIME. Both are considered to be milestones in the … Continue readingRichard Zimmerman
http://www.terrywaldo.com/ PHOTOS | VIDEOS Terry Waldo is considered one of America’s premiere performers and presenters of ragtime and early jazz. Known for his virtuoso ragtime and stride piano playing, charming vocals, and disarming wit, Waldo is the protégé of the legendary Eubie Blake, who called Waldo … Continue readingTerry Waldo
http://www.stephanietrick.com/ PHOTOS Stephanie Trick “has come to practically dominate the stride piano field,” notes reviewer Jack Rummel. With a swinging approach that includes boogie woogie and blues from the late ’20s era plus Fats Waller and Ralph Sutton, Stephanie was the 2012 recipient of the … Continue readingStephanie Trick
PHOTOS | VIDEOS Virginia Tichenor is daughter of ragtime scholar Trebor Tichenor and past-president of the West Coast Ragtime Society. Wife of bassist and pianist Marty Eggers, Tichenor plays gigs with the Tichenor Family Trio, California’s Devil Mountain Jazz Band, and as a solo pianist at … Continue readingVirginia Tichenor
http://www.butchthompson.com/ PHOTOS | VIDEOS Butch Thompson is one of the most prominent musicians in traditional jazz. Born in Marine-on-St. Croix, Minnesota, he was playing Christmas carols on his mother’s upright piano by age three, and began lessons at six. He picked up the clarinet in high … Continue readingButch Thompson
http://www.adamgswanson.com/ PHOTOS Adam Swanson, from Shenandoah, Iowa, is rapidly becoming known as one of the world’s foremost performers and historians of American ragtime. He discovered ragtime on his grandparents’ Web-TV and has played the piano for eleven years. Swanson has been a featured performer at … Continue readingAdam Swanson
http://www.boogiebob.com/seeley.htm VIDEOS Universally hailed as America’s greatest living boogie woogie pianist and proponent of stride, Bob Seeley is “a piano player like Mickey Mantle was a ball player.” A fixture at the piano bar at Charlie’s Crab in Troy, MI, Seeley has been entertaining for … Continue readingBob Seeley
http://www.music.msstate.edu/faculty/bio/rosangelasebba/ Rosangela Yazbec Sebba was only six-years-old when she first sat before the ivory keys of a piano. While in high school, Sebba won a national musical competition in Brazil. At Federal University in Goias, Brazil, she earned her bachelor’s degree in music and piano … Continue readingRosangela Sebba
