Musicians of NY

#MusiciansofNY tells the stories of the working union musicians of New York.

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Justin Vance is a Musician of New York. Justin spends lots of time juggling instruments around the city for gigs on saxophone, clarinet, flute, and oboe. He subs on and off Broadway, freelances with orchestras, has been a member of

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Jami Dauber is a Musician of New York. Jami moved to New York after grad school with a dream of playing trumpet on Broadway. After nearly twenty years of subbing, she got her own chair playing in Honeymoon in Vegas,

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Katie Scheele is a Musician of New York. Katie is an oboist, teaching in Brooklyn by day and performing at gigs by night. Although classically trained, she embraces the diversity of the New York music scene and plays a little

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Max Calkin is a Musician of New York. Hailing from a small town in New Hampshire, Max Calkin moved to New York to study music in college. A bassist who plays both electric and upright bass, Max has toured with

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Ayodele Maakheru is a Musician of New York. Over the course of his career, born-and-raised New Yorker Ayodele has recorded two original albums and worked in almost every corner of the NYC music world. His primary instrument is guitar, but

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Tomoko Akaboshi is a Musician of New York. Violin and viola player Tomoko was born in Tokyo, Japan, but spent much of her childhood in the U.S. before returning to Japan for high school, college, and the beginning of her

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