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Saxophonist

Fanni Zahár

August 6, 2019September 3, 2019

Fanni Zahar is a Budapest-based flute player and multi-instrumentalist. A graduate of Béla Bartók Conservatory, Budapest and Codarts Conservatory, Rotterdam, Fanni is an accomplished player who is proficient in a number of genres including jazz, afrobeat and Central European folk. Fanni is part of hip-hop funk collective SoulClap Budapest that has collaborated with international vocalists and MCs such as Illspokinn, EmmaVie, Sarah Jane and Wayne Snow. She is also a member of the Hungarian experimental world music project Ethnofil, with whom she has toured Europe extensively. Expressing her passion for music of the African diaspora, Fanni performs with Hungary’s first all-star afrobeat ensemble, The Mabon Dawud Republic, which hosts Hungary’s annual Felabration event, lead by the Nigerian musician Dele Sosimi. Fanni has also worked with afro jazz ensemble Ábáse that has featured artists such as Ghanaian Kologo artist Steve Atambire and the Nigerian trumpeter Etuk Ubong.

Alexander Serechenko

May 14, 2017May 5, 2020

Alexander Serechenko (a.k.a. solo.operator) is a Moscow-based saxophone player and electronic musician. Alexander has merged his passion for programming and web development into numerous multidisciplinary works that span theater, dance, sound installation and net art. His Fluxus-inspired performances have been presented at Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Saint Petersburg Museum of Sound, ArchStoyanie Festival and other prestigious venues across Russia and Europe. Alexander has been a stalwart presence in Moscow’s free jazz scene and his albums have been released through influential experimental labels Kotä Records and TOPOT. Recently, Alexander released Random Drone through Kotä Records, a web-based generative music project that continually develops based on an evolving algorithm.

Sam Hillmer

September 4, 2015September 8, 2015

Sam Hillmer is a Musician, Facilitator, and Organizer living in Bushwick Brooklyn. Sam is the founder of the band ZS, the youth Hip Hop presenting organization Representing NYC, and the conceptual art installation duo Trouble (The You Are Here Festival), and is a facilitator and organizer for Carnegie Hall’s Weil Music Institute, The Beacon Center for Arts and Leadership, and LEAP/ALLL. Sam is interested in the spiritual, political, and economic dimensions of local, communally practiced arts and activism in the entertainment and social services industries. Sam Hillmer joined OneBeat 2012 at Roulette and the Bring to Light Festival in NYC.

Weronika Partyka

August 4, 2015May 5, 2020

Aurora Nealand

August 3, 2015May 5, 2020

Esteban Copete

July 28, 2015May 5, 2020

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