Loren Stillman
Loren Stillman (born June 14, 1980) is a jazz saxophonist and composer. He has received two "Outstanding Performance Awards" (1996 and 1998) and the "Rising Star Jazz Artist Award" (2004) from "Down Beat" Magazine. and received the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award in 2005. Biography. Stillman was born in 1980 in London, England, and raised in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. He received scholarships to attend the Manhattan School of Music in 1998 and the New School University in 2002. He received two "Outstanding Performance Awards" in 1996 and 1998  and the "Rising Star Jazz Artist Award" in 2004 from "Down Beat" Magazine. He was a semifinalist in the 2002 "Thelonious Monk Saxophone Competition" and in 2005 he received the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award. He is hailed as "a writer and a stylist that has found a previously unoccupied slot in the jazz spectrum." ("Jazz Review" UK) Stillman has been recognized as one of today's truly original creative voices by "The New York Times", "Downbeat Magazine", "JazzMan", "Jazziz", "JazzThing", "Jazz-Times" and National Public Radio. A former student of Lee  Konitz and David Liebman, he has performed and recorded throughout the United States, Europe and Japan with his own ensembles, and with those led by Charlie Haden, Carla Bley, Paul Motian, John Abercrombie, Andy Milne’s Dapp Theory, Michele Rosewoman, Joe Lovano, Eivind Opsvik, Tyshawn Sorey, Samo Salamon, Vic Juris and The Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. "It Could Be Anything" (2005, Fresh Sound) and "The Brothers’ Breakfast" (2006, Steeplechase) received critical acclaim from "The New York Times", and four star awards from BBC "Jazz Review" and "Downbeat" Magazine. Stillman has been a featured artist on WKCR, Weekend America and LIU  Radio programming. Discography. As sideman. With Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra With Paul Motian With Chris Dingman With Samo Salamon