New Video Blogger: Jade Simmons – Pianist

Today’s featured video blog is from Jade Simmons, a wonderfully artistic and innovative pianist based in Houston, TX.  She may be based in Houston, but she travels widely performing and speaking in a variety of venues, and as she discusses in her first vlog here, she is very interested in being an arts entrepreneur and forging new directions for her career.  It is a going to be a fun year to watch all the interesting things that Jade is doing!  Check out her great first vlog and stay tuned for more!

About the author

Stephen Danyew
Stephen Danyew

Steve Danyew is a composer, saxophonist, teacher, and arts administrator based in Rochester, NY. Danyew composes works for chamber ensembles, large instrumental ensembles, choirs and more, and currently serves as Managing Editor of Polyphonic.org. His music has been hailed as “startlingly beautiful” and “undeniably well crafted and communicative” by the Miami Herald, and has been praised as possessing “sensitivity, skill and tremendous sophistication” by the Kansas City Independent. Steve received a B.M. cum laude, Pi Kappa Lambda from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and holds an M.M. in Composition and Certificate in Arts Leadership from the Eastman School of Music.