Patricia Santos is a singing cellist and songwriter of varied musical styles. She draws on her classical training to meld the cello with non-classical styles and explorative techniques. Her music inhabits blues, rock, folk pop, and sometimes avant-cabaret. She has played in venues around the country including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Joe's Pub, Bowery Ballroom, Music Hall of Williamsburg, 54 Below, NPR's Tiny Desk, House of Blues, Beachland Ballroom, The Music Box Supper Club, and The Oriental Theater. She has worked with artists such as Hurray for the Riff Raff (“The Navigator”), Charming Disaster, Katreese Barnes, Martha Redbone, Valerie Simpson, The Orange Peels, Emily Mure, Tim Haufe, Adam Falcon, and Prince Ea. Patricia is a teaching artist and program director for Musicambia, a non-profit that brings the transformational power of music to incarcerated communities. She offers workshops on classical and alternative cello styles, small and large ensemble skills, composing, arranging, and songwriting. She serves on the Board of Directors of the New Directions Cello Association––an alternative-style cello festival, and previously served on the Board of Directors of the Violoncello Society of New York. She became a voting member of the Recording Academy in 2022. She received her Bachelor’s of Music in Cello Performance from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory with Regina Mushabac, and her postgraduate studies were with Bryan Dumm of the Cleveland Orchestra.
Jeremy Ajani Jordan is a critically acclaimed pianist and native Chicagoan living in New York. He attended the Juilliard School where he received undergraduate and graduate degrees in piano performance, studying on the Van Cliburn and Irene Diamond scholarships. He made his concerto debut with Maestro Alan Heatherington and the Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra playing Grieg, followed by performances and recordings of the Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Czech National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Paul Freeman. Jordan has performed solo and chamber concerts throughout Europe and America including Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Rudolfinum in Prague, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall and the Ravinia Festival. Other notable performances include his appearances with renowned clarinetist Anthony McGill and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, recitals for the American Liszt Society in California and New York, and his own Juilliard lecture-recital celebrating the bicentennials of Liszt and Wagner.