Rachel Z Hakim

Rachel Z Hakim is a jazz and rock pianist/keyboardist with 10 solo albums to her
name, and is considered one of the most versatile musical forces of her generation.
In 1988, she cowrote the Grammy Award-winning and gold-certified "Tokyo Blue”
with saxophonist Najee and for the next eight years played keyboards and piano
with fusion band Steps Ahead. She also worked with Wayne Shorter on his
Grammy-winning album High Life.

In 1999, Rachel Z was a part of a jazz fusion project led by Stanley Clarke and Lenny White and
experimented with her own rock group, Peacebox, as a vocalist. She was also working with the Italian
pop legend Pino Daniele, with whom she toured from the mid-90s until his death in 2015. She also
toured with Peter Gabriel during his Growing Up tours from 2002 to 2006. In 2010, she and her
husband Omar Hakim formed the band Trio of OZ and launched OZmosis Records. In the last decade,
she played, recorded, and/or toured with the Omar Hakim Experience, Wayne Escoffery, Terri Lyne
Carrington, and Neal Schon.

The couple's new band project, 0Zmosys, are at work on its second release and performs an
improvised mix of EDM, electronica, jazz, funk, and rock. The group recently recorded an EP at the
legendary PowerStation studio as part of BerkleeNYC for release in spring 2019.

 

Thavius Beck

As a multi-instrumentalist, producer, emcee, and electronic music educator, Thavius
Beck is a man whose life revolves around music and technology. With a focus

on bass-heavy rhythms with dark, emotional melodies and twisted sample
manipulation, he has not only released numerous albums of his own (both as
Thavius Beck and under his previous moniker, Adlib), but he's also collaborated
with or remixed artists such as Saul Williams, Nine Inch Nails, the Mars Volta,
Skylar Grey, and Nas, just to name a few.