Our Artists...
(LEFT TO RIGHT) PIANIST ERIC OLSEN AND SAXOPHONIST LOU CAIMANO
LOU CAIMANO
Lou Caimano is a saxophonist, composer, educator and administrator, and has been a working member of the Greater New York area musician’s free-lance community since 1981.
Lou is the composer/arranger of numerous jazz fusion, new age and commercial compositions, including CD releases "Manhattan Twilight" and the first DYAD collaboration with Eric Olsen. Performance credits include the Broadway orchestras of A Chorus Line, Baby, CATS, Dancin', David Copperfield, Evita, 42nd Street, La Cage aux Folles, Mame, Manhattan Showboat, Woman of the Year and Shrek the Musical; as well as the Saxophonist "Salaire" at Grand Theatre de Bordeaux, Musique Municipal, Orchestre de Harmonie, and the Lansing Symphony. Lou has performed on saxophone with such well-known acts as The Four Tops, The Temptations, the Mellow Kings, Gary Burton, Urbie Green, Jimmy Holmes, Arnie Lawrence, John Mahegan, Rita Moreno, Marvin Stamm, Larry Stuart, Enzo Stuarti, Clark Terry, Jerry Vale and Nancy Wilson. He has appeared in the movies "Muppets Take Manhattan" and "The Juror" and has performed on "France Inter," the French National Radio Station.
Lou Caimano is the Director of The Ridgewood Conservatory, a school for the performing arts located in Paramus NJ that he founded in 1998.
He is a Lauret Du Conservatoire De La Region De Bordeaux, France, holds Masters of Music, Bachelor of Music, and Bachelor of Science degrees from Michigan State University and has studied saxophone with Jean-Marie Londeix and Larry Teal, and improvisation with Phil Woods and Eric Kloss. He is the former Director of Jazz Studies, and Instructor of Saxophone, Flute, Bassoon and Theory at Bemidji State University, Assistant Director of the Improvisation Ensemble and Instructor of Saxophone for Music Educators at Michigan State University and has served as adjunct faculty for the City University of New York - QCC.
ERIC OLSEN
Eric Olsen has crafted a distinguished career in both classical and jazz music, as a pianist and organist, composer, and conductor.
Since moving to the NY Metropolitan area in 1992, Eric has worked, recorded, or collaborated with classical musicians and Opera singers Betty Allen, Klara Barlow, Walter Cassel, Margaret Harshaw, Martha Lipton, Kevin Maynor, Steve Oosting, Giorgio Tozzi, and Virginia Zeani; and jazz musicians Pharoan Aklaff, David Baker, Don Braden, Cecil Brooks III, Ed Cherry, Mike Clark, Ratzo Harris, Billy Hart, Tim Horner, John Isley, Steve Johns, Mike Karn, Mike Lee, B.D. Lenz, Eric Person, Bucky Pizzarelli, Dominic Spera, Eliot Zigmund, and a host of other musicians. His discography includes classical recordings as a soloist, accompanist and choral music conductor, jazz recordings, and recordings for meditation. He has recorded four albums with Kevin Maynor, including the Grammy nominated Black Art Song in 2000.
Eric Olsen has performed at jazz festivals, in recitals, at Carnegie Hall’s Stern and Weill Halls, at Birdland, and the Knitting Factory, and overseas in France, Germany, India, New Zealand, and Fiji. Mr. Olsen has performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and I Got Rhythm Variations (including his own jazz cadenza) with the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan and the Central Jersey Symphony Orchestra. In addition to maintaining a busy performing schedule, Eric is Director of Music and Organist at Union Congregational Church in Montclair, NJ.He is an Adjunct Faculty member at Montclair State University, and a member of the Piano Faculty at the Judith Wharton Music Center in Berkeley Heights, NJ. Eric Olsen holds two Master’s degrees in Piano Performance and Jazz Studies from Indiana University, and a Bachelor’s with High Distinction in Piano and Organ Performance from Syracuse University.
Lou Caimano is a saxophonist, composer, educator and administrator, and has been a working member of the Greater New York area musician’s free-lance community since 1981.
Lou is the composer/arranger of numerous jazz fusion, new age and commercial compositions, including CD releases "Manhattan Twilight" and the first DYAD collaboration with Eric Olsen. Performance credits include the Broadway orchestras of A Chorus Line, Baby, CATS, Dancin', David Copperfield, Evita, 42nd Street, La Cage aux Folles, Mame, Manhattan Showboat, Woman of the Year and Shrek the Musical; as well as the Saxophonist "Salaire" at Grand Theatre de Bordeaux, Musique Municipal, Orchestre de Harmonie, and the Lansing Symphony. Lou has performed on saxophone with such well-known acts as The Four Tops, The Temptations, the Mellow Kings, Gary Burton, Urbie Green, Jimmy Holmes, Arnie Lawrence, John Mahegan, Rita Moreno, Marvin Stamm, Larry Stuart, Enzo Stuarti, Clark Terry, Jerry Vale and Nancy Wilson. He has appeared in the movies "Muppets Take Manhattan" and "The Juror" and has performed on "France Inter," the French National Radio Station.
Lou Caimano is the Director of The Ridgewood Conservatory, a school for the performing arts located in Paramus NJ that he founded in 1998.
He is a Lauret Du Conservatoire De La Region De Bordeaux, France, holds Masters of Music, Bachelor of Music, and Bachelor of Science degrees from Michigan State University and has studied saxophone with Jean-Marie Londeix and Larry Teal, and improvisation with Phil Woods and Eric Kloss. He is the former Director of Jazz Studies, and Instructor of Saxophone, Flute, Bassoon and Theory at Bemidji State University, Assistant Director of the Improvisation Ensemble and Instructor of Saxophone for Music Educators at Michigan State University and has served as adjunct faculty for the City University of New York - QCC.
ERIC OLSEN
Eric Olsen has crafted a distinguished career in both classical and jazz music, as a pianist and organist, composer, and conductor.
Since moving to the NY Metropolitan area in 1992, Eric has worked, recorded, or collaborated with classical musicians and Opera singers Betty Allen, Klara Barlow, Walter Cassel, Margaret Harshaw, Martha Lipton, Kevin Maynor, Steve Oosting, Giorgio Tozzi, and Virginia Zeani; and jazz musicians Pharoan Aklaff, David Baker, Don Braden, Cecil Brooks III, Ed Cherry, Mike Clark, Ratzo Harris, Billy Hart, Tim Horner, John Isley, Steve Johns, Mike Karn, Mike Lee, B.D. Lenz, Eric Person, Bucky Pizzarelli, Dominic Spera, Eliot Zigmund, and a host of other musicians. His discography includes classical recordings as a soloist, accompanist and choral music conductor, jazz recordings, and recordings for meditation. He has recorded four albums with Kevin Maynor, including the Grammy nominated Black Art Song in 2000.
Eric Olsen has performed at jazz festivals, in recitals, at Carnegie Hall’s Stern and Weill Halls, at Birdland, and the Knitting Factory, and overseas in France, Germany, India, New Zealand, and Fiji. Mr. Olsen has performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and I Got Rhythm Variations (including his own jazz cadenza) with the Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan and the Central Jersey Symphony Orchestra. In addition to maintaining a busy performing schedule, Eric is Director of Music and Organist at Union Congregational Church in Montclair, NJ.He is an Adjunct Faculty member at Montclair State University, and a member of the Piano Faculty at the Judith Wharton Music Center in Berkeley Heights, NJ. Eric Olsen holds two Master’s degrees in Piano Performance and Jazz Studies from Indiana University, and a Bachelor’s with High Distinction in Piano and Organ Performance from Syracuse University.