Australian born singer, songwriter, illustrator, and entrepreneur Nadia Ackerman moved to NYC from Sydney in 1998 to pursue her passion for singing and has been taking the “Big Apple” by storm ever since!

Patrick Warren is an award-winning composer, arranger, producer and session pianist/keyboardist, based in Los Angeles. Patrick currently scores Showtime’s Peabody-nominated series The Chi (Seasons 1 and 2), created by Emmy-winning Master of None writer Lena Waithe. His film and TV scoring credits include Pleasantville, Boogie Nights, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Knocked Up, Across the Universe, Bloodworth, Sunshine Cleaning and HBO’s hit series, True Detective.

Bassist, Viktor Krauss lives in Nashville and has recorded and or performed with artists ranging from Bill Frisell, Lyle Lovett, Tom Jones, Sherly Crow, Shawn Colvin, and James Taylor. He has released two albums of his own music, "Far From Enough" (Nonesuch) and "II" (EMI). Say hello at www.viktorkrauss.com.

John Deley is a NYC-based keyboard player, pianist and musical director.

We go all the way back!

We lived together for years back in Boston. From crashing his car to spilling a coffee into his upright piano to playing countless gigs together, John is one of my closest friends!

Eisler, a Czech-born, English-raised composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, has worked with ensembles of all shapes and sizes to help bring his scores to life. Variety described his music as "smoky, elaborate film noir-inspired compositions", while Beatweek Magazine praised him for making “beautiful music” that “…almost acts as another character further enveloping the audience in its grasp.”

This week on Loud Noise my guest is guitarist and Berklee College of Music associate professor, Amanda Monaco.

Check out Amanda's music & performance schedule at her website, her free course, "Guitar Scales and Chord Progressions" at www.coursera.com and her book, Jazz Guitar for the Absolute Beginner on Amazon.

To say hello and follow Amanda, go to,

www.amandamonaco.com

www.convergencearts.org

www.twitter.com/guitarmonaco

www.youtube.com/guitarmonaco www.facebook.com/guitarmonaco

Henry Hey is a NYC-based pianist and keyboard player. From his bands, Forq and Rudder to his role as musical director for David Bowie's "Lazarus" musical, George Michael's "Symphonica" project and Rod Stewart's "Great American Songbook", Henry is an artist and consummate music maker!

Henry Hey is a NYC-based pianist and keyboard player. From his bands, Forq and Rudder to his role as musical director for David Bowie's "Lazarus" musical, George Michael's "Symphonica" project and Rod Stewart's "Great American Songbook", Henry is an artist and consummate music maker!

Ken Rich is a Brooklyn-based producer, engineer, composer and musician. For more information about Ken and Grand Street Recording, please go to www.grandstreetrecording.com

Libor Šmoldas is a Czech-born jazz guitarist living in Prague. He performs internationally with his own group and as a sideman.

With 9 albums released under his name, he has performed and recorded with bassists, Jay Anderson and George Mraz, drummers Jeff Ballard and Adam Nussbaum, organists Sam Yahel, Ondrej Pivec and Brian Charette and legendary saxophonist Bobby Watson.