"Gaea is quite a multi-talented pianist/flautist/vocalist/composer/arranger/bandleader, with a

wonderfully compelling gift for jazz, ballads, and Brazilian-flavored music" -Benny Green

Gaea Schell is a graduate of both acclaimed McGill University in Montreal and Vermont College of Fine

Arts and spent time in New York as a recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts grant studying with

pianist/composer Richie Beirach. Accomplished and versatile, she - as drummer Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath

says, “is a triple threat and plays the heck out of the piano with them small hands".

Gaea Schell has three acclaimed CDs out, is a sideperson on multiple recordings, and has played with

many notable names (Bob Sheppard, Albert “Tootie” Heath, Bobby Watson, Clare Fischer Big Band, Vince

Lateano, Marcus Shelby and the late Stacy Rowles to name a few) in addition to often leading her own

trio or quartet at venues regionally and internationally including Vibrato Grill & Jazz in Bel Air,

Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Yoshi’s, and Knickerbocker in New York City.

Gaea headlined twice at the San Jose Jazz festival.