Wynton Guess
Writing
Biography
Wynton was born in Louisville, KY in 1993 and started playing violin and piano at the age of six. He began to concentrate on piano exclusively at the age of eight when he moved to the New York City Metropolitan area (New Jersey). He has studied with, played for and performed with some of the greatest names in jazz including: Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride, McCoy Tyner, Ahmad Jamal, Bebo Valdes, Ellis Marsalis, Marc Cary, T.S. Monk, Victor Goines, Wess Anderson and Todd Williams. His principal piano teacher from age 8 to 17 was world-class, critically acclaimed pianist, Aysegul Emine Durakoglu. He graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelors in Music with a major in Composition from Boston Conservatory where he was awarded the Roger Sessions Memorial Composition Award. He recently earned a Masters in Music with a major in Composition from The Royal College of Music in London. In 2018 he was a co-founder of an annual classical music festival in the Portuguese city of Vale de Cambra. Wynton currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal where he is pursuing a PhD in Contemporary History at the News University of Lisbon.
Known For
Portugal had been recovering after the reforms following the end of “The Great Cyber War” years prior. Trust was now returning to the economy. The successful prosecution of the recently captured hacker and rebel ringleader Dr. Vilar, would be a show of force for the government, clearly establishing that the days of corruption were now behind them, as they re-integrated back into the eurozone. Dr. Vilar, once responsible for the cyber attack that devastated Lisbon’s power grid, had spent the majority of his exile in London, England, from which he ran his criminal enterprise, until one day he was mysteriously betrayed…
Dr. Vilar
A chair enters a downward spiral of emotional crisis.