Kenny Werner is a world-renowned pianist and composer as well as a 2010 Guggenheim
Fellowship recipient. In addition to being a Grammy-nominated artist, he’s won a
Distinguished Artist Award for Composition from the New Jersey Council of the Arts and
has been awarded several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1996, he
wrote the book Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within and has since
been invited to lecture and teach musicians all over the world to help them rediscover
their love of, and power in, music. The book began a mini-revolution of musicians raising
their consciousness and producing profound musical results. In 2014, Werner became the
artistic director of Berklee’s Effortless Mastery Institute.

A veteran jazzman, saxophonist George Garzone has appeared on over 20 recordings.

He first picked up the tenor saxophone when he was six years old and spent his early years
playing in a family band. He attended Berklee and has taught here for more than 30 years.
His jazz trio, the Fringe, was founded in 1972 and includes bassist John Lockwood

and drummer Bob Gullotti. The Fringe performs regularly in the Boston area and has
toured worldwide.

Blue Note recording artist Joe Lovano grew up in a very musical household. His dad, a
barber by day and a big-toned tenor saxophone player at night, made sure Lovano’s
exposure to jazz and the saxophone were early and constant. Lovano’s pivotal college
years at Berklee were a precursor of future collaborators. He was the recipient of a
Distinguished Alumni Award from Berklee and an honorary doctorate in 1998. Berklee also
awarded Lovano its first endowed chair, the Gary Burton Chair for Jazz Performance, in
2001. He has over 40 CDs to his credit as a leader.

Ari Hoenig is a jazz drummer, composer, and educator known for his unusual and intense
approach to drumming that emphasizes complex rhythms in direct harmony with other
group members. He is widely noted for elevating drumming as an indispensable part of a
performance. Hoenig has recorded, written, and produced nine CDs as a leader and has
written and published three educational books, four educational DVDs, and a songbook.

Bassist Johannes Weidenmueller has been a first-call performer with a long list of jazz
greats since settling in New York City 16 years ago. His warm sound, mastery of time,
lyrical solos, flexibility, and openness have made him one of most sought-after bassists in
a wide variety of musical settings. While being busy performing over 200 concerts a year
around the world, Weidenmueller is also a committed educator. Since 1997, he’s been on
the faculty of the New School’s jazz and contemporary music program, teaching bass,
ensemble, and ear training.