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Niklas Winter started his studies at the Turku Conservatory in the mid 80’s and later studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston between 1991-1995. Early influences have been John Scofield and Pat Metheny. Later influences have been horn players and pianists. Sonny Rollins, Keith Jarrett, John Coltrane and Kenny Wheeler to name a few. Winter started his professional career with the Danish-Finnish Scandinavian Jazz Quartet in 1992. This band has made 3 studio albums; New Deal (1994), A Night In Bilbao (1997) and Silent Knowledge in 2000. His main interest has always been writing and performing original music. His bands, as a leader, have been the Finnish-Danish-Swedish Winter’s Jazz Workshop (’Hypnosis’ 1999 and ’Saknad 2001) and the Finnish – Swedish Niklas Winter Quartet. ( Live in Stockholm , 2006) Since 2004 Winter has also led his Finnish – Japanese quartets and quintets, his latest album ’Beautopia’was released in Japan by the Japanese King Records in late 2007 and in Europe in 2008. During the years Winter has performed with many artists. Some international names that Winter would like to mention are Kenny Wheeler, Cameron Brown, Kiri Te Kanawa, Jukkis Uotila, Lars Jansson, Ted Curson and Karl-Martin Almqvist. Winter has performed on most of the Finnish jazz festivals including Pori Jazz Festival and Tampere Jazz Happening. Other selected international festivals are, Aarhus Jazz Festival and Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Yokohama Jazz Promenade, Borås Jazz Festival, Umeå Jazz Festival and Beijing Contemporary Music Festival. Winter has received several awards in Finland for his musicianship. The Young Arts Award in 2000 ,the Aboa Price in 2001 and the Western Culture Award in 2006 by Kulturfonden. New exciting projects are beside the new Manuel Dunkel & Niklas Winter Quartet the guitar duo with Finnish guitarist Teemu Viinikainen. Winter has also arranged and recorded old psalms from the ’Piae Cantiones’ selection (2002) and performs concerts with this project as well, mostly in classical events. Winter is recording new CDs during the year 2010. A new duo CD with Teemu Viinikainen is to be done and also a new record with his Finnish – Japanese Quintet. These two records are to be released in late 2010/ early 2011.

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Teemu Viinikaisen (s. 1975) ilmaisukykyinen ja virtuoosimainen soitto yhdistettynä kykyyn sopeutua hyvin erilaisiin kokoonpanoihin on tehnyt hänestä yhden Suomen kysytyimmistä ja kunnioitetuimmista jazzkitaristeista. Suomessa hänet tunnetaan niin ykkösluokan solistina kuin luotettavana säestäjänäkin. Hän on konsertoinnut useiden kansainvälisten jazzartistien kanssa kuten Joe Lovano, Vince Mendoza, Randy Brecker ja Tim Hagans sekä esiintynyt Lapin Kamariorkesterin ja Tampereen Filharmonian solistina.

Viinikainen on valittu jazz-kriitikoiden sekä tapahtumajärjestäjien toimesta vuoden jazzkitaristiksi vuosina 2002-2008. Vuonna 2004 hänelle myönnettiin arvostettu Sony Jazz -palkinto ja hän on ollut kahdesti ehdokkaana Teosto-palkinnon saajaksi yhtyeen Perko-Pyysalo-Viinikainen kanssa. Tämä yhtye onkin ollut merkittävin kokoonpano viime vuosien aikana ja se on esiintynyt mm. USA:ssa, Australiassa ja Uudessa Seelannissa sekä konsertoinnut kotimaan kirkoissa saavuttaen laajan kuulijakunnan. Viinikaisen ensimmäinen oma levy ilmestyi kesäkuussa 2005 "Tales of Robert Dickson" KSJAZZ -levymerkillä ja sen myötä voikin odottaa lisää omia julkaisuja tulevaisuudessa.

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Steinar Aadnekvam is one of the most active and most talked about young and upcoming guitarists on Scandinavian Jazz scene.
Travels in both Brasil and India has informed and influenced his playing style and musicianship significantly. Born in Bergen, Norway
in 1984, the 26 year old guitarist has after finishing his Conservatory studies in Stockholm in 2005, toured in countries such as
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Spain and most recently in Brasil from where he has just returned after a 6 month
visit, recording with several artists, playing at festivals, lecturing and composing.

His swedish band, that will perform for the Tampere audience tonight Steinar Aadnekvam Quartet, featuring Jonatan Guzman - Piano,
Petter Eldh - Bass and Anders Olsson - Drums, together form the outstanding quartet from his first album - "Simple Things", released in 2010.

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