Will Holshouser Ron Horton David Phillips
Will Holshouser
Will Holshouser was given an accordion as a surprise when he was still young and impressionable. He has since found a unique niche for himself as an accordionist, improviser, and composer. He works in many different scenes from jazz to pop to classical. Activity in 2009 has included tours in the US and Europe with jazz violinist Regina Carter and with modern klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer; tours in Tanzania and the US with avant-garde jazz legends Han Bennink & Michael Moore; and an accordion feature with New York City Ballet by composer Bruno Moretti.
Will's forthcoming third CD, Palace Ghosts and Drunken Hymns, features his long-standing trio and Portuguese pianist Bernardo Sassetti as special guest. This new collaboration began in 2008 with a concert and studio recording in Lisbon and will be out on Clean Feed Records, like the trio's first two CDs: Reed Song and Singing to a Bee.
Will has also played with Antony and the Johnsons, Phillip Johnston, Matt Munisteri & Brock Mumford, Martha Wainwright, Roberto Rodriguez, Dave Douglas, Maria Schneider, the Raymond Scott (tribute) Orchestrette, Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others.
Will studied composition with Anthony Braxton and Bill Barron at Wesleyan University, where he received a grant to research Cajun and Creole music in Louisiana. After moving to New York in the early 1990s, he studied accordion with Dr. William Schimmel.
Ron Horton
Ron Horton (trumpet) has three CDs out under his own name, Everything in a Dream, Subtextures (both on Fresh Sound New Talent) and Genius Envy (Omnitone). He is a long-standing member of New York's Jazz Composers Collective and has worked with Andrew Hill, Jane Ira Bloom, Lee Konitz, Phillip Johnston, Frank Kimbrough, Ben Allison, Matt Wilson, Ted Nash, Michael Blake, the Herbie Nichols Project, and more.
http://www.ronhorton.net
David Phillips
David Phillips (bass) has released three cds as a leader, most recently Freedance Live, and toured in North America and Europe with his group Freedance. He began learning bass from his father, Barre Phillips, then studied with Homer Mensch at Mannes College of Music and earned a graduate degree from Juilliard under Eugene Levinson. While active as a session player in New York, he is currently a member of the Syrian group Hewar, Bruce Arnold’s Spooky Actions and performs regularly with Indian singer, Kiran Ahluwalia.
http://www.davephilips.info
