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Ariel Kasler

Jazz guitarist and pianist based in Bowling Green, OH

About Me

Guitarist and pianist Ariel Kasler leads the Ariel Kasler Quintet, which has released the albums Make it Bloom (2022) and Above the Sound (2015), featuring original compositions and arrangements. With the Thompson-Kasler Duo, he performs and commissions contemporary music for electric guitar and saxophone with saxophonist Bobbi Thompson. Ariel is the pianist for the Toledo Jazz Orchestra and plays piano and guitar with the BGSU Jazz Faculty Ensemble. Since 2022, he has run a guitar duo series, featuring guitarists from Ohio and Michigan.

Ariel holds a Master of Music in Jazz Performance from Bowling Green State University, a Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music, and an Alexander Technique Teaching Certificate from the Toronto School of the Alexander Technique.

Ariel is currently an Associate Teaching Professor at BGSU, where he has been teaching since 2015. His duties there include teaching applied jazz piano and guitar, Alexander Technique, various ensembles and jazz courses, and serving as artistic director of the Orchard Guitar Festival.