An ensemble of Baltimore-area musicians that feature each member’s musical voice, compositions, and arrangements. Formed by trumpeter/educator Sean Jones in 2019, ensembles composes original music and arrangements by other Baltimoreans across genres with generous support from Johns Hopkins University.

Andrea Brachfeld is a world-renowned jazz and Latin jazz flutist with 10 recordings out as a leader and has recorded many more. Her intention as a performer is to inspire and heal her audience with her music.

The Baltimore School for the Arts is a premier public arts high school located in downtown Baltimore City. Students are trained by top artists in order to prepare for life as a professional artist. Students can focus on vocal or instrumental music, dance, theatre, stage design, film, and visual arts.

Tap dancer Brinae Ali is an interdisciplinary artist who believes in using the power of the arts to transform the conditions of the human spirit. She is a lecturer of dance at Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatory, co-creator of “Dizzy Spellz”, a member of the Baltimore Jazz Collective, and cultural ambassador for diplomacy with Next Level-USA in partnership with the U.S. Department of State Education and Cultural Affairs. Ali is also a National Dance Projects Grant recipient and Johns Hopkins Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts Social Justice Fellow for a new work in progress archival performative process called the “Baby Laurence Legacy Project.” Her broadway and off-broadway experience include Shuffle Along and STOMP.

Marc Cary stands apart by way of pedigree and design and is one of the progenitors of contemporary jazz. None of his prestigious peer group ever set the groove behind the drums in Washington DC go-go bands nor are any others graduates of both Betty Carter and Abbey Lincoln's daunting bandstand academies. New York Times jazz critic Nate Chinen observed recently, “There isn’t much in the modern-jazz-musician tool kit that Marc Cary hasn’t mastered, but he has a particular subspecialty in the area of groove…with a range of rhythmic strategies, from a deep-house pulse to a swinging churn.”

Directed by renowned trumpeter Sean Jones, Richard and Elizabeth Case Chair of Jazz Studies at Peabody Conservatory, the Graduate Jazz Ensemble is a brand-new ensemble dedicated to the recipients of the Graduate Jazz Fellowship. This ensemble focuses on community-engaged artistry to develop expressive, flexible, creative, and collaborative musicians who are deeply invested in making an impact with their art. GJE provides developing artists with a platform to compose and perform original works, while gaining experience in roles of leadership and giving back to the community as educational artists.

Saxophonist and flautist Gary Thomas is one of the most original jazz musicians worldwide whose work has included being of member of bands by Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition band and has worked with John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Jim Hall, Dave Holland, Greg Osby, Wayne Shorter, Ravi Coltrane, Cassandra Wilson, Wallace Roney, Steve Coleman, and Miles Davis. Thomas was the Director and Chair of Jazz Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

A self-taught artisan and a life-long Baltimore resident, Lewis has a natural artistic ability that she has honed over a lifetime, and the ability to create art from nothing. She is skilled in many mediums including portraiture, oil paintings, macrame, textiles, sketch work, murals and various other mediums.