Peter Einhorn Quartet

Emily is a jazz vocalist and composer born and raised in Woodstock, NY. Trained on the violin and piano from an early age, they grew up performing with their family and friends across the Hudson Valley. Throughout their childhood and adult life, they have composed and arranged music with acoustic, soul, jazz, and pop influence.

In their years since graduating, they have continued jazz performance throughout NYC and the Hudson Valley, while writing, arranging, and recording original music.

PETER EINHORN

Guitarist / composer Peter Einhorn’s most recent recording is “Seems Like Old Times”.
His recordings can be sampled at www.petereinhorn.com .
Among them are Karl Berger’s “StillPoint” (Sunny Moon Records), Ira Sullivan’s “Strings Attached”(Pausa Records), as well as recordings as a leader.                      [see www.petereinhorn.com]

He has performed and / or recorded with Joe Lovano, Plácido Domingo, Jimmy Cobb, Steve Swallow, David Amram, John Abercrombie, Steve Kuhn, Eddie Daniels, Roland Hanna, and others.
He has been a performer on ethnic stringed instruments with the Metropolitan Opera.

Peter Einhorn is an award winning composer who has scored dozens of films and videos. His invention, the SpiderCapo, has expanded the sonic palette of fretted stringed instruments. He holds advanced degrees in music and mathematics. He is a resident of Woodstock, N.Y.

SCOTT NEUMANN, a Bartlesville Oklahoma native, began playing drums professionally at the age of thirteen. His first major work was with The Woody Herman Orchestra, which he joined in 1988. Since moving to New York City in 1988, Scott has established himself as one of New York’s most creative and versatile drummers.

Scott’s touring credits include David Liebman, Madeleine Peyroux, Ben Allison, Tony Trischka, Jazz Mandolin Project, NYNDK, Makoto Ozone, Woody Herman, and Brother Jack McDuff. While in New York City, Scott has worked with such jazz luminaries as Grady Tate, Rufus Reid and Kenny Barron Recent sideman projects include the three-plus year Monday night tenure with Bill Mobley’s Big Band at the NYC jazz club Smoke. Performing and recording with Glafkos Kontemetios’s Trio, Bill Warfield’s New York Jazz Octet, Dan Wilensky and Chris Roger’s Quintet. Other large Ensemble associations include the Grammy nominated orchestra of Pete McGuiness and Diane Moser’s Composers Big Band. Scott has played on over 50 CDs and has recorded with artists including Kenny Werner, David Liebman, Eddie Gomez and Claudio Roditi. Working with vocalists, Scott’s accompanimental talent has supported the artistry of, among others, Ann Hampton Calloway, Lesley Gore, Marilyn Maye, Billy Stritch and Vicki Carr.

Bassist LOU PAPPAS’ career encompasses both Jazz and Classical music. After beginning with orchestras in Colorado and Oklahoma, he moved to New York to accept the position as bassist with the United States Military Academy Band at West Point, from which he retired in 2006. Since then, Mr. Pappas has kept a steady pace of performance with many groups in the New York area, such as the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Taconic Opera Company, and the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra. His jazz work includes freelancing with a number of groups from Albany to Woodstock, New York City, Connecticut and New Jersey; including performances with such jazz greats as David Liebman, Byron Stripling, Randy Brecker, Steve Turre, James Williams, Claire Fischer, Chris Flory, Dennis Mackrel, Billy Cobham, and fellow bassist John Clayton. In addition to his playing schedule, he has been teaching private and college level bass for over 40 years, just recently retiring from Vassar College and the State University of New York at New Paltz.