David Picton

David Picton is a drummer/percussionist, composer, and pianist. He is primarily a jazz musician, but has a strong classical background, especially as a composer. He lives and performs in New York City and the area, and has also performed in California, Japan, England, and Ghana, Africa. He has performed in such NYC clubs as Birdland, the Zinc Bar, the Jackson Room, and Cleopatra's Needle, and has performed with such notable musicians as pianist John Hicks, guitarists Jack Wilkens, Larry Coryell, and Randy Johnson, trumpeter Don Hahn,  bassist Leonard Gaskin, and many others.

Mr Picton appears on several CD's, as drummer/percussionist, with artists such as Art Lillard, Miki Hayama, Bob Gallo,Yoshiki Miura, Linda Ipanema, and he has also released two jazz CD's of his own, in addition to a more recent double CD entitled Sun and Moon, released in collaboration with pianist/composer Emiko Hayashi.

In the 1970's Mr. Picton studied with the great Joe Morello, famous drummer of the original Dave Brubeck Quartet. Mr. Picton has also studied drums with Kenny Washington, Victor Lewis, and Steve Davis.

Besides being a drummer, Mr. Picton is also an accomplished jazz pianist, and he has been working as such for several years.

As composer, Mr. Picton works in contemporary classical genres as well as contemporary jazz. He has a bachelors degree in music composition from Mannes College of Music, and is a composer member of New York Composers Circle. Besides numerous performances of his work in New York City, Mr. Picton has also had his work performed numerous times in Canada, and Russia as well.

Dr. Jonathan Godfrey

Dr. Jonathan Godfrey is a guitarist, composer, producer, and arranger whose works and playing have been described as “invitingly poetic” by the Boston Globe. A resident of Florida's Suncoast since 2012, his reputation for effortlessly weaving between classical, jazz, and commercial music styles has led him to be one of the area's most in-demand concert artists and session musicians. He has been a soloist with The Florida Orchestra, members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the Choral Artists of Sarasota, among numerous other regional professional ensembles. Artists he has shared the stage with include Bernadette Peters, Stephen Flaherty, Debbie Gravitte, Michael Lynche, and Byron Stripling. He has performed on the equity national tours of Mean Girls, Chicago, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and has performed in regional equity productions of Evita, Ragtime, and the Sound of Music. Hailed as “The Suncoast’s power couple in music,” (Suncoast Cultural Club), he has performed extensively with his wife soprano Jenny Kim-Godfrey as Corda Voce, a guitar and voice duo highlighting cabaret, jazz, and popular music alongside classical repertoire. He has been a repeat guest lecturer at the Guitar Foundation of America International Festival and Competition and has recorded solo works for the Education Embassy of Spain and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.