Samuel Carthorne Rivers was an American jazz musician and composer. He performed on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano.
Egberto Amin Gismonti is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist.
Ivo van Emmerik is a Dutch composer.
Klaas de Vries is a Dutch composer. De Vries taught composition at the Rotterdam Conservatory until his retirement in 2009.
Bart van Oort is a Dutch classical pianist.
Peter-Jan Wagemans is a Dutch composer.
Yitzhak Yedid is an Israeli-Australian composer and pianist.
Peter Beets is a Dutch jazz pianist. He has shared the stage with Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, George Coleman, Johnny Griffin, Chris Potter, Kurt Rosenwinkel and John Clayton. He recorded with Jeff Hamilton and Curtis Fuller and in 2001 he released his New York Trio, which was the start of his international career.
Nikolaj Hess is a Danish jazz pianist, composer, producer and arranger.
Yannis Kyriakides is a composer of contemporary classical music, and sound art. His music explores new forms and hybrids of media, synthesizing disparate sound sources and highlighting the sensorial space of music. He has focused in the majority of his work on ways of combining traditional performance practices with digital media, particularly in the use of live electronics. The relation between music and language has been explored in many pieces that utilize text films as a multimedia element.
Marc Demuth is a Luxembourg jazz musician who has founded different jazz bands. He is also a composer and he plays double bass and electric bass.
Thomas Winther Andersen is a Norwegian-born, now Amsterdam-based jazz bassist, married to jazz singer Henriette Andersen.
Alfred Momotenko-Levitsky, also known as Fred Momotenko, is a Russian-born Dutch-nationality composer.
Jeremy Udden is an American musician, composer, and educator. Proficient in both the Alto and Soprano Saxophone, Udden also composes songs for his groups, Plainville and Torchsongs Trio. His most notable albums from these groups include If the Past Seems So Bright, Plainville, and Torchsongs. He has performed at a variety of venues, including Merkin Hall, Cornelia Street Cafe, and Carnegie Hall. Critics describe Udden's style as "melodic jazz-rock" and a "marrying of country, surf rock and blues." He was born in Plainville, Massachusetts and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, where he teaches at the Packer Collegiate Institute.
Michael Publig is an Austrian composer, pianist, instructor, and music manager. He studied piano with Roland Batik at the City of Vienna Conservatory and Social and Economic Sciences at the Vienna University of Economics.
Harmen Fraanje is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He currently lives in Amsterdam.
Tony Overwater is a Dutch jazz bassist and composer of jazz and improvisational music. In 2002 he received the Boy Edgar Award, the most important jazz award in The Netherlands. Presently, Overwater is mainly active in a crossover of jazz, Arab and early music.
Michael Jefry Stevens is an American jazz pianist. Stevens currently resides in Black Mountain, North Carolina.
Jacob Hendrik "Jaap" Stotijn was a Dutch oboist. He was also active as a pianist and conductor. Jaap Stotijn has been credited as the founder of the Dutch school of oboe playing. "The Dutch style ... is the product of the distinctive reed-making and playing style of Jaap Stotijn." Contemporary oboists in this lineage include Han de Vries, Koen van Slogteren (nl), Peter Bree, Bart Schneemann, and the current principal oboe in Stotijn's orchestra, Pauline Oostenrijk (nl).
Dominik Wania is a Polish pianist and composer.
