Joel Styzens: Relax Your Ears

Joel Styzens is a Chicago musician, composer, and instructor at the renowned Old Town School Of Folk Music. His latest acclaimed release, "Relax Your Ears," features his guitar compositions and a collaborative partnership with Chicago Symphony Orchestra cellist Katinka Kleijn, who is prominently featured on the album and whose soaring melodies add a level of depth and emotional intensity.

"Relax Your Ears" is an instrumental record with elements of Classical, Jazz, World, and Folk music and features varied and unusual guitar tunings. It's "music that you feel down in your soul" according to Carol Banks Weber from the Music Examiner. Styzens' album has been awarded Editor's Pick & 5/5 Stars from CD Baby as well as 5/5 Stars from the Music Examiner, and has also been featured on UK's Fluid Radio and Chicago's WFMT, and won 2nd place worldwide in the Indie International Songwriter's Contest.

Bio

Joel Styzens is a drummer/percussionist, songwriter, guitarist and composer.
He is a graduate of Millikin University where he earned a degree in Music Business and Percussion, specializing in drum set, hand drums and mallet instruments.

For the past 5 years Joel has been a full-time faculty member at Chicago's renowned Old Town School of Music. He currently freelances in the Chicago music circuit where he is involved in several different projects as a musician and composer.

He has composed music for a wide range of projects, including: Check, Please! TV which is featured on NBC-5 Chicago, Chicago band '56 Hope Road' which has been featured on radio stations all across the Country, and 'Relax Your Ears' which features cellist Katinka Kleijn from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and earned Joel "Editor's Pick" from CD Baby and a 5/5 star review.

He also has collaborated and performed with a wide range of musicians including: Grammy-nominated trumpeter Ron Haynes, members of the Blueman group, and Grammy-nominated saxophonist Frank Catalano.

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