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Joshua Davis

Compositions and Bassist
Biography
Dr. Joshua Davis is a composer, arranger, and educator with performances as an orchestral and jazz bassist at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the National Concert Hall in Taiwan, Blue Note Jakarta, Bimhuis Amsterdam, and Opera Marseille; with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, The Four Freshmen, Artichoke Dance Company, Tim Miller, Vardan Ovsepian, Peter Erskine, Jerry Bergonzi, and others. Recordings include Common Ground, with Peter Erskine, Bob Sheppard, Vardan Ovsepian, and Takako; Known Garden, a cd featuring Joshua’s compositions in the hands of contemporary jazz performers; Squashua, Joshua’s first feature recording as an arranger and leader, showcasing Romantic Era symphonies and the music of Sting.

Josh joined the faculty at Susquehanna University as the Director of Jazz Studies in 2006. He was the Director of Jazz Studies at Towson University between 2002 and 2006. Prior he was an awarded leader of curriculum development at Berklee College of Music where, as one of the youngest faculty members, he taught for six years.

 Josh created RhythmMeterWorkshop.com, a site of video lessons addressing rhythm and meter development. He is a curator at ShapeShifter Plus, programing new music concerts and educating the public about new music in New York City. Composition commissions include Overflow and Convergent Mirrors for Artichoke Dance Company’s 2016 concert series featuring double bass improvisation and Ableton Live, R Trainversations  for Bella Voce Additional concert, composition, and teaching information can be found at www.joshuadavis.org.
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Todd Harrison

Drummer​

Blake Cramer

Vibes
Biography
Blake Cramer’s distinguished 24-year career in the US Navy spanned 1992-2016 and included positions such as Admiral’s Pianist, Jazz Ensemble Leader, Career Counselor, Financial Counselor, USNA Senior Enlisted Leadership Training Coordinator for one hundred Navy soldiers, Principal Percussionist with the United States Naval Academy Band, and Special Assignment as the USNA’s Superintendent’s Pianist.. He is a first-call mallet performer from the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area and his latest recording is a 2013 CD release with Entropa entitled “This is Water.” He began performing as a drum set player at the age of 13, went on to extensive classical training, and enrolled in improvisatory mallet percussion studies with Gary Burton and Nora Davenport at Berklee College of Musi
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Jonathan Epley

Guitar
Biography
Todd Harrison joined the US Army Jazz Ambassadors (the official touring jazz band for the United States Army) in 1996 as drummer / percussionist / clinician / arranger, where he remained for twenty years of world-touring, including performances with major symphony orchestras such as Detroit, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, Curtis and Pittsburgh. Todd has performed and/or recorded with Marvin Hamlisch, Conrad Herwig, George Garzone, Kirk Whalum, Dick Oats, Rich Perry, Chris Vidala, The US Army Blues, Slide Hampton, Clark Terry, Ernie Watts, Bobby Shew, The Alan Baylock Jazz Orchestra, Chris Potter, Wynona Judd, University of Miami Jazz Ensemble, Kevin Mahogany, Shelly Berg, Ingrid James, Bill Watrous, Geri Allen, Andy Bey, Sammy Nestico, and others. Todd studied classical percussion performance at Houston Baptist University, and jazz theory and composition with Shelly Berg at San Jacinto Jr. College in Houston.
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Corrine Byrne
Biography
Guitarist/composer Jonathan Epley is an eclectic artist that has melded a Bluegrass/Folk upbringing with Jazz, Electric Slide Guitar, Blues, and Rock.
He is currently the guitarist with the US Army Jazz Ambassadors.
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Natalie John
Voice
Biography
New York-based soprano Corrine Byrne most recent roles include Filia in Carissimi's Jephte at St. Mark's Church in Manhattan, Anna in Die Todsünden (Seven Deadly Sins) by Kurt Weill at the Staller Center for the Arts and the Renee Weiler Recital Hall, Doctor in the workshop previews of The Scarlet Professor by Eric Sawyer, and Cathy in The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown at the Staller Center for the Arts and the National Opera Center. The New York Times praises her as "warm, lithe and beautifully blended." ​
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Voice
Biography
A native of Northern California, Natalie is a world traveller and long time past resident of Brooklyn, NY.  So far, her voice has taken her to Austria, Germany, South Korea, Mexico, Peru, Mongolia, and India. Natalie split her time pursuing an undergraduate music degree between the University of Southern California (studying under Tierney Sutton and Shelly Berg) and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music (studying under Rachel Z and Kate McGarry), where she graduated in 2008.  Awards and accolades include the 2005 John Coltrane Scholarship for Jazz Vocals, and the 2006 Downbeat Award for College Vocalist.
Apart from her roles as brass player and singer, Natalie is also a composer, vocal jazz choir arranger, and educator. In 2010, 2011, and 2015  she was adjunct faculty at the Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music in South India. She has for 8 summers been on faculty at Northern California’s Own the Mic singing camp. In 2014, she became a guest lecturer and visiting artist at the Goethe Institut’s contemporary music program in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia. From 2013-2015 she was a vocal jazz professor at Paekche Institute of the Arts in Seoul, South Korea.
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