Teriver Cheung Jazz Guitarist/Composer/Curator 

Teriver Cheung is an internationally touring guitarist and composer. Originally born in Hong Kong, his early exposure to classical music has contributed to his future style of composing as well as playing.

He studied with Fred Hamilton at the University of North Texas with a scholarship and received Bachelors of Jazz Studies in 2004. There he formed his first group Nobody’s Business in 2007 and recorded the début album Forward Momentum, followed by international tours in Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico and the USA.

In 2009, Cheung relocated to New York and has since played an active role in the jazz scene. Musicians he has collaborated include Latin Grammy Award winner Eddie Gómez, Billy Drummond, Jeremy Monteiro and Jean-Michel Pilc. He also tours constantly with his group, appearing at some of the major music festivals including Jazz World Festival (Hong Kong), Jazz W Ruinach Festival (Poland) and Taichung Jazz Festival.

In 2015, Cheung returned to Hong Kong and curated the “Hong Kong Episodes” concert as part of the 10th year anniversary Hong Kong World Cultures Festival, which featured himself as a performer as well as composer (along with composer Fung Lam) with a 16 piece chamber jazz ensemble. He also participated as part of the Kerong Chok’s “Eleven”, a chamber jazz concert by an eleven piece ensemble presented by Esplanade Mosaic Music Series.

In 2016, he pushed his musical boundary further and performed with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta Orchestra and was featured as a soloist for Ng Cheuk Yin’s Piece “Tang” with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra at their opening concert of the 40th Orchestral Season.

Cheung had participated on several recordings, including the Takako Yamada group, John Thomas group. His début album in 2012, My Nocturne, received acclaims from the renowned magazine JazzTimes; his jazz trio The Beat Brothers also released its début album Artcore in 2015. He started his own record label Drip Music in 2016.

As an educator, Cheung is currently a guest lecturer for the Education University of Hong Kong. He had also taught music workshops and clinics worldwide at UCSI University, Silpakorn University, Sing Jazz Academy (as part of the Singapore Jazz Festival) to name a few.

Teriver Cheung is an endorsed artist for the D’Angelico Guitars.

For more information please visit www.terivercheung.com

Photo credit: Eddie Chan

Kerong Chok 

A performer and composer whose work
exhibits a keen intellect combined with
emotional depth, Chok Kerong is making a
significant impact as a pianist and Hammond
organist. He has performed in many parts of
the world, including the USA, India, Thailand
and Malaysia. His first album of all-original
music, “Good Company”, has been described as “a terrific debut” (New Straits Times), “a release permeated with texture and a rich sonic color palette” (criticaljazz.com), and “no- nonsense jazz pulled like taffy from the sticky pot of 1960’s classic jazz

celebrity” (lajazz.com). Kerong is also active as a composer and arranger. He has written and arranged music for Singaporean artists such as Rani Singam and the T’ang Quartet.

For more information, please visit www.kerongchok.com.

Additional Press Quotes
“These ten tracks are striking originals, and Chok’s penmanship matches his undeniable instrumental panache…Chok’s fine compositions are unabashedly old school in design, but such
is the combination of vibrancy and seductiveness in the execution that it’s hard not to be completely smitten. With Good Company, Chok has produced a hugely impressive debut, and one
whose charms hold all manner of promise for the future.” – allaboutjazz.com
“…plays the hammond b-3 organ with stylish bravura…” – Straits Times
“…lyrical, funky, and aggressively inventive but tastefully restrained whenever the music calls for a
soft touch.” – Business Times
“Even though he rates as one of Singapore’s most exciting young jazz keyboardists, it’s taken
Chok Kerong nine years to come up [with] his debut album. But what an album it is…Get this
and you’ll realise that you’re really in good musical company indeed.” – Today

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Sam Minaie Bassist 

Iranian-American bassist, Sam Minaie,
was born in Reno, Nevada and started
piano lessons at age 8. At age 14, he
switched to electric and upright bass and
was granted numerous command
performances in classical bass
performance while beginning to also work professionally in all styles of music around the Reno/Tahoe area. Sam was granted a full scholarship and received a Bachelor of Arts in Classical and Jazz Performance at the University of Nevada, Reno. He then moved to Los Angeles where, under scholarship, he received a Masters of Fine Arts in Jazz Studies at California Institute of the Arts.

At CalArts, Sam studied with Charlie Haden and African Ewe master, Alfred Ladzekpo as well as a broad range of other world music masters. While in Los Angeles, Sam quickly made a name for himself as one of the most sought-after bassists on the scene and moved to New York in May of 2009.

He has toured extensively throughout several countries around the world and has been recorded on dozens of albums with artists including Peter Epstein, Ralph Alessi, Ravi Coltrane, Tigran Hamasyan, Peter Apfelbaum, John Ellis, David Ake, Mark Ferber, Gary Versace, Joe LaBarbera, Roy McCurdy, Bob Sheppard, Brian Lynch, John Beasley, Tootie Heath, Sara Gazarek, Larry Koonse, Patti Austin, Butch Morris, Vinny Golia, Adam Benjamin, Ben Wendel, Tim Ries, Tim Hagans, Kenny Werner, Vince Mendoza, Patrick Williams, New Century Players Ensemble, Alfred Ladzekpo’s Ewe Ensemble, Lian Ensemble (Persian Classical Music), Bill Holman Orchestra, and the Clayton/Hamilton Orchestra. As well as being a bassist, Sam has produced and mixed several albums, and is active as a session cellist. He has also played tuba in Charlie Haden’s Liberation Orchestra.

Sam is a co-leader and composer for Axis Trio and is tours extensively around the world with Thelonious Monk Piano Competition Winner, Tigran Hamasyan.

Mark Ferber Drummer 

Drummer Mark Ferber can be heard on over 100
recordings. Ongoing projects includes the Gary
Peacock Trio, Ralph Alessi’s ‘This Against That’,
the John O’Gallagher trio, the Brad Shepik Organ
Trio, and his twin brother, Alan Ferber’s big band
and nonet. Past work includes tours and
recordings with Lee Konitz, Jonathan Kreisberg,
Jack Wilkins, Don Byron, Fred Hersch, Tony
Malaby, Mark Helias, and Billy Childs, among
others. Mark has taught extensively in the United States and Europe. He was a faculty member for the California Institute of the Arts, the Tavira Jazz Workshop in Portugal, the School of Improvisational Music (SIM), and is currently teaching privately out of the City College of New York. He was born and raised in Moraga, CA and received a degree in Biogeography from UCLA. Mark is an endorsing artist for Istanbul Cymbals. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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