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Silvan Joray is a Swiss jazz guitarist and composer currently based in New York City. He has gained recognition in the jazz community, having won special prizes at the UNISA International Strings Competition in South Africa in 2022 and the Smietana Jazz Guitar Competition in Poland in 2019. He has performed at prestigious jazz festivals, including the Krakow Summer Jazz Festival, Offbeat Jazzfestival Basel, and International Jazz Festival Bern, and has toured in Germany, Norway, Poland, Spain, and Israel. Joray grew up in a musical family and began his formal training on the classical guitar, which he studied for eight years before discovering jazz and switching to the electric guitar. His latest album, "Updraft," features a rhythm section with Jeff Ballard on drums and Nadav Erlich on bass. The album showcases his original style characterized by a transparent tone, precise articulation, creative rhythmic ideas, and extended techniques like quarter tones and "tapping," which are not traditionally associated with jazz guitar playing. The products available from the artist Silvan Joray include CDs.
