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Kelly MacKenzie-Thurley Erwin Stuckey Phil Tipton Jack Early |
Kelly MacKenzie-Thurley is a graduate of both Northern Kentucky University and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She has sung in venues and festivals throughout the United States, Australia, Italy, Czech Republic, Austria, the United Kingdom and Germany, including performances at Cincinnati’s Music Hall, Harlech Castle and the Sydney Opera House.
Kelly is a sought after music educator. She is on the voice faculty at NKU’s School of the Arts and was recently invited to the join the faculty at SCPA. In 2018 she took over as Director of the NKU Vocal Jazz Ensemble and has continued her studies with Darmon Meader of New York Voices. In October 2021 Kelly served as a Jazz Ambassador for the Cincinnati-Nancy Sister Jazz Initiative in Nancy, France. Kelly continues to perform regularly throughout Southwest Ohio including Caffé Vivace, Muse Café, and the Härth Room and has upcoming performances with the Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra.
Erwin Stuckey is a gifted multi-instrumentalist (piano, jazz organ, vibraphone) deeply delving in a variety of music genres including jazz, contemporary gospel, Afro-Latin jazz, Caribbean, and Euro classical music. He is a highly sought after educator with over 3 decades of teaching experience including high school, college, and international masterclass presentations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Kraków, Poland. When not teaching, Erwin still finds time compose and arrange original music while also remaining active on the Greater Cincinnati live music scene. Erwin has performed with top instrumentalists and singers such as Joshua Redmond, Kenny Garrett, Javon Jackson, James Carter, Arturo Sandoval, Steve Wilson, John Blake Sr., Jeff Coffin (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones), Galen Abdur-Razzq (Flute Juice Productions of Orlando, Fl) William “Bootsy” Collins and Fred Wesley (Full Circle recording), Kiki Layne (Dandelion movie sound track 2024) Mary Wilson (The Supremes of Motown Records), Sonny Jenkins, Carla Cook, and The Tribe of Judah contemporary gospel singers.