Adult Contemporary. Jazz.

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ADJOA SKINNER BIO:
Touring Performance Artist & "Vaudeville Singer-songwriter" Adjoa Skinner was born and raised outside of Buffalo, NY but now calls Los Angeles home. After spending two years working in Africa decided to pursue her career as a singer-songwriter in Los Angeles where she spent 7 years performing the club circuit. After being discovered by a local booker in Los Angeles Adjoa held two weekly residencies sponsored by Warner Music & ASCAP until she caught the ear of Grammy Award Winning Producer Charlie Peacock. Classically & Jazz trained with over 20 years of professional experience in music, making Skinner a sought after performer, teacher, session vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. She has opened for Grammy Award Winners The Civil Wars, Charlie Peacock, Amy Grant, Beth Hart, Reeve Carney (Spiderman The Musical),  Daniel Bedingfield, Jason Joseph, The Voice’s Tony Lucca, American Idol’s Jackie Tohn, The Jonas Brothers, Shel and more.
Adjoa has performed in North America, Asia, Africa & Europe. She recently released the EP “The Sun" and acoustic album “Unfinished” in January 2013, her 5th & 6th musical releases of her career as a singer-songwriter.  Skinner was a finalist in the Grammy Museum’s Be Heard Showcase in April 2013 and the International Songwriters Competition. Adjoa is a sought after Songwriter and lyricist and was chosen by Norwegian Tenor Torstein Sodal to write the lyrics to the famous Edvard Grieg Song “Morning Mood”.  All in all, Adjoa is the total package and is moving not only herself but everyone she is connected with towards their destiny.

GLENN LLORENTE is a composer, influenced by Eastern and Western music cultures. He writes music for concert, commercial, and sacred aesthetics. He is a theorist and an educator—currently serving as a Teaching Associate at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music (2013-current), and has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Life Pacific College (2010-2012). He is an active orchestrator—both commercially and ecclesiastically—and a keyboardist, having performed for artists such as Shirley Ceasar, Cece Winans, Marla Reid, and Eric Lige. Llorente holds degrees from Life Pacific College (B.A., 2005), California State University-Fullerton (M.M., 2011), and is currently a PhD candidate in Music at the Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California-Los Angeles (2012-2016). Llorente has studied composition with Pamela Madsen, Ian Krouse, Roger Bourland, David Lefkowitz, and Richard Danielpour. This summer, he will be attending the Upbeat! Summer Composition Music School in Croatia (August 2015).

Llorente has received numerous awards, such as the Mannason Scholarship for Composition (2009-10), the Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship (2012-2016), University Fellowships (2013-2015), as well as grants (University Grants, CSUF 2009-11) and scholarships (Graduate Dean’s Scholarship, UCLA 2012-14). Llorente is also winner of the CSUF New Music Festival Orchestra Competition, with his score, Solace for orchestra, premiered by the University Symphony Orchestra (March, 2011). In 2012, Llorente was commissioned by the Orange County Collegiate Orchestra and premiered Marie for saxophone and trumpet (March, 2012). Llorente’s electro-acoustic video installation, Humanus Pravitas, was featured in the 12th Annual World Electro-Acoustic Listening Project at the Grand Central Arts Theater, Santa Ana, CA (March, 2013). Llorente was commissioned by the Vanguard University Symphony Orchestra for his piano concerto, David and Goliath, to be premiered by pianist, Gina Lord. His trio, Equilibrium, for tenor saxophone, electric guitar, and xylophone, was premiered at the Crystal Cove State Park’s Evironmental Study Loop Grand Opening (February, 2014). Recently, Llorente’s flute/piano duo, Metamorphia, was performed by the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (April 2015), and his string quartet, Ang Bakus ni Orion (2014), was performed by the Amarath String Quartet at the Eureka! Musical Minds of California conference (May, 2015).

Glenn Llorente is a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda music honor society, the Phi Beta Delta international scholars honor society, and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra’s Young Composer’s Forum. While interested in researching Eastern and Western music cultures, Llorente is also interested in experimental and improvisatory electro-acoustic music. Currently, he is writing his dissertation on the hybridization of Eastern and Western aesthetics, researching gamelan music and its influence to twentieth-century composers.

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