Performers
Steven Feifke – piano
Dan Chmielinski – bass
Bryan Carter – drums

Recognized as one of the leading composers for Big Band by the Recording Academy, producer of the Grammy’s and heralded a “masterful pianist” by JAZZIZ Magazine, Steven Feifke is an award winning bandleader, composer, and arranger who has appeared on over thirty records before turning thirty years old. A Yamaha Performing Artist and a two-time semi-finalist in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Piano Competition, DownBeat Magazine says Feifke’s music is “an air of infectious joy.”

An internationally recognized composer, arranger and orchestrator, Feifke is the recipient of the 2020 David Baker Prize from the Ravinia Festival, and has written for orchestras around the world including Orchestra Senzapine in Florence, Italy and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra..

His compositions and orchestrations have also been prominently featured on such hit TV shows as The Masked Singer [FOX], Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee [Netflix], Impractical Jokers [TruTV], Animaniacs [Hulu], and the 2016 award-winning animated short Solo.

A respected educator, Feifke sits on faculty at Berklee College of Music and The New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. In addition to frequent guest lecturer and guest artist visits at educational institutions around the US including New York University, Yale University, Northern Illinois University, and more, Feifke runs semi-annual high-intensity exclusive coaching programs in big band writing called “Lead Sheet To Large Ensemble”