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Jill Weinknecht-Wardell
Baltimore
vocalist, Jill Weinknecht-Wardell, has 16 years of performance
experience spanning Jazz and Classical Concert Literature (including
Opera and Oratorio), Musical Theater and Pop. She has been heard in
Concert, Jazz, and Opera venues up and down the eastern seaboard and in
the mid-west. She is much sought after for weddings and corporate
special events for her flexibility and proficiency across musical genres
and for her soulful interpretive approach to singing.
Jill has performed major operatic roles both in Washington and in New
York, including Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. She has also been heard in
Carmen, Don Giovanni and Sweeney Todd.
Her wildly varied musical influences include Eva Cassidy, Rosemary
Clooney, Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi, Susan Tedeschi, Joni Mitchell,
and Nina Simone. She has studied classical voice extensively with NYC
and Washington tenor, Don Wiggins and jazz with DC jazz legend, Ronnie
Wells.
Jill earned a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies combining Music
Performance and Anthropology culminating in a lecture recital entitled
"The Primacy of Opera in Italian Culture." She is currently pursuing a
master’s degree in Applied Healing Arts, integrating her work as a
musician through a debut CD and through her work as a professional life
and creativity coach.
Joel Holmes
Joel Holmes attended the acclaimed Peabody Conservatory of Music at
John Hopkins University. He gained popularity with his fellow students
playing impressive performances at various festivals and venues.
Joel has studied with Bobby McFerrin, Roy Hargrove, Gary Thomas, and
a host of other respected musicians. He has also taught music and theory
at the Rock Junior Academy, the Baltimore School for the Arts and has
over 15 private students.
A recent Bachelor of Arts graduate from the Peabody Conservatory in
Jazz Performance, Joel’s accolades include a gold medal in the Act-so
Competition of the NAACP, a silver medal in the Local and National
Levels, an honorable mention in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition,
a finalist in the 5th annual Independent Music Awards, a recipient of
the Maryland State Arts Council Grant, and an honorable mention in the
Vh1 song of the year awards.
Now at 25, Joel composes his own style of music blending an array of
traditional and contemporary jazz, gospel, R&B, soul, hip-hop, neo soul,
funk, classical and pop. His states, “My music is a direct expression of
musical influences, spiritual freedom and personal interpretation.” In
addition, he plays a repertoire of over three hundred well-known tunes
He has opened for The Temptations, The Manhattans, Tonex, Regina Bell
and Phil Perry.
Joel has had the honor of performing at The Kennedy Center, Meyerhoff
Symphony Hall, The Litchfield,Hartford and Columbia jazz festivals, as
well as the Morgan State University’s tribute to Baltimore Legends. The
group is currently getting radio airplay at Mosaic Online, a popular
online jazz radio station, 88.9, Morgan State University jazz station.
Because of his increasing popularity, Joel Holmes is touring
extensively throughout the East Coast. In September 2005, he performed
in Taiwan and Singapore. Joel Holmes was a Finalist in the
5th Annual Independent Music Awards in the Song Category under Jazz
Originals. You can find it listed in the “Musician’s Atlas 2006
Magazine.” Joel Holmes has also been selected to receive a
Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award!His Album has also
received a nice review in the Baltimore Jazz Alliance Newsletter.
Baltimore
vocalist, Jill Weinknecht-Wardell, has 16 years of performance
experience spanning Jazz and Classical Concert Literature (including
Opera and Oratorio), Musical Theater and Pop. She has been heard in
Concert, Jazz, and Opera venues up and down the eastern seaboard and in
the mid-west. She is much sought after for weddings and corporate
special events for her flexibility and proficiency across musical genres
and for her soulful interpretive approach to singing.
Joel Holmes