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Rock Creek Jazz: Bio

Rock Creek Jazz

ROCK CREEK JAZZ
Guitar-Violin-Congas-Vocal Jazz

Rock Creek Jazz is a quintet consisting of two guitars, violin, congas, vocals and bass guitar that performs a wide variety of jazz, Latin jazz, blues, and even some Ukrainian folk songs - making this a truly unique group!

BOB WILLIAMS - GUITAR

Guitarist Bob Williams exhibits amazing skills on the guitar built on varied musical roots. He has performed rhythm and blues with the Peptonz, American folk music with Carey Creed, bluegrass with the Grass Menagerie, and classic rock and dance music with Scott Young and Steppin’ Out. Bob has written many original compositions for the group. Recently, Bob has expanded his musical range to include the piano and chromatic harmonica, as well as mandolin.

ROGER ST. VINCENT - BASS GUITAR

Bassist Roger St. Vincent has played the five-string bass guitar with many Washington DC area bands and artists, including trombonist Rhoades Whitehill and the Sam Seymour big band, guitarists Steve Abshire and Rob Winter, saxophone and vocalist Maureen McCusker, as well as the trumpet-guitar-piano-bass phenomenon Richard Glass. For many years Mr. St. Vincent performed the trumpet with the Naval Academy Band in Annapolis Maryland, and was leader of the Brass Quintet there. He occasionally performs the trumpet with Rock Creek Jazz (ie., Bag's Groove).

Solomia Gorkhivska - Violin

Ukrainian born Solomia Gorokhivska started playing violin at the age of five. Solomia earned her Master of Music in violin performance at the National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine, and is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

Ms. Gorokhivska has extensive experience as a soloist, frequently performing throughout Ukraine, Europe, and the United States. She is a laureate of Ukrainian and international competitions in classical and folk music performance, and currently performs as both violinist and vocalist with many US and Ukranian bands - luckily including jazz, latin and Ukranian music with Rock Creek Jazz.