Artists

Our Artist Lineup so far Includes...

Adam Swanson

Adam Swanson is three-time junior champion of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest, held in Peoria, Illinois, and in 2008 won the adult division of that contest. Originally from Michigan, but now living in Shenandoah, Iowa, he discovered ragtime on his grandparents' "Web-TV," and has been playing the piano since he was ten years old.

Adam is rapidly becoming known as one of the world's foremost performers of American piano ragtime. He has been a featured performer at dozens of ragtime and jazz festivals across the United States and abroad. In 2007 he appeared at the Bohem Ragtime and Jazz Festival in the Republic of Hungary. Adam's latest CD On a Circular Staircase is available from Rivermont records and his other CDs are available on the Rag-Time label. You can also listen to Adam play on youtube.

Adam is also an avid railfan and collects antique sheet music and records.

Andrew Greene

Andrew Greene is an authority on orchestral music of the ragtime era. Mr. Greene founded the Peacherine Ragtime Orchestra as a freshman at the University of Maryland, hoping to draw attention to this neglected but historically-important American music. He is also a pianist and performs regularly at ragtime festivals and other events.

The Peacherine Ragtime Orchestra

The Peacherine Ragtime Orchestra is America's premier college-age Ragtime Orchestra, recreating the sounds found before the era of talking films and jazz music. Founded in 2010, the PRO is one of the few ensembles in America that uses the original scores and antique instruments to play America's music: Ragtime. The orchestra plays theatre, dance, and concert selections from their over 1,600 piece collection of orchestral arrangements from the era. Their collection highlights over 30 years of music from 1882 to 1930. The Peacherine Ragtime Orchestra has been heard on radio programs such as Hot Jazz Saturday Night. For more information about the orchestra, visit www.peacherineragtime.com.

Bryan Wright

Bryan Wright hails from Lynchburg, Virginia. Bryan began is love of music at 18-months with the gift of his first record player. His musical training began on classical piano at the age of five, but he soon found an interest in the rags of Scott Joplin. Brian also studyed the violin and later the viola and performed with the Judith Creek String Quartet and the Heartstrings Quartet. Bryan is currently pursuing a doctorate in historical musicology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Brian is the founder of an on-line 24-hour ragtime music station Elite Syncopations Radio and also hosts Soundstage, heard world-wide on the internet at www.bostonpete.com

Bryan released his first CD Syncopated Musings in 2004 on the Rivermont label. You can also listen to some of Bryan's performances on youtube.

Frederick Hodges

Hailed by the press as one of the best jazz and ragtime pianists in the world, Frederick Hodges is sought after by today’s foremost orchestras, festivals, conductors, and collaborative musicians. His artistry, virtuosity and charisma have brought him to the world’s most renowned stages, leaving audiences around the globe captivated.

Classically trained as a concert pianist, Frederick Hodges has established a reputation as a truly versatile artist equally sought after as soloist, singer, guest soloist with the California Pops Orchestra, and dance band pianist with Don Neely’s Royal Society Jazz Orchestra. His extensive repertoire includes all the best ragtime, stride, and novelty piano solo pieces. He has appeared on national television, radio, and in several Hollywood films. He is also a much sought-after silent film accompanist for both live performances and on DVD. He performs regularly at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum.