Born in 1974 in Madrid (Spain), he studied electric bass with Javier ”Pato” Muñoz and combo with Ramón Paús, Miguel Ángel Blanco and Jacobo Cimadevila at Taller de Músicos de Madrid, with Nicolás Ortiz at Escuela de Música Creativa (Madrid) and with Antonio Saiz at Escuela Popular de Música y Danza de Madrid. Between 2005 and 2008 he studied double bass and harmony with Carlos Ibáñez. He has attended seminars and master classes given by masters such as Luis Conte, Ben Sidran, Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq, Richie Cole, Barry Harris, Bob Malach, Javier “Pato” Muñoz, Andrés Olaegui, David Friesen, Dave “Fuze” Fiuczynski, Abe Rábade, Nelson Cascais or Charlie Moreno.
Besides his work in the jazz world he also joined the bands Babieca (folk/celtic), Disembodied (metal) and Inner Game (pop-rock covers), and wrote the original soundtrack for the short film Icaria (George Karja, 2006). He is a member of Kyrios, house band for Madrid's Segundo Jazz club weekly jam session since September 2006. He has perfomed in small tours led by international artists in and around Madrid (Margaret Stowe -Canada- in 2008, Riner Scivally -U.S.A.- in 2010, Virginia Ram-rez -Venezuela- in 2010 and Juliet Annerino -U.S.A.- in 2010), and he has occasionally collaborated with regular musicians in Madrid's jazz scene: Marcelo Peralta, Román Filiú, Norman Hogue, Chema Sáiz, Santiago de la Muela, Carlos “Sir Charles” González, Borja Barrueta, Igor Prochazka, Cheryl Walters, Ángela Cervantes, Sacri Delfino or Guillermo Bazzola. He is a member of Juan Camacho Quinteto, with which he recorded their latest CD La estrategia del tiempo (2009), and of the cooperative jazz fusion band Tet-Quart, which recently published their first CD Silencio (2010).
Press Quotes:
”Renato Di Prinzio and Arturo Mora complement each other
perfectly: both of them make up a first class rhythmic unit,
through the first one's constant activity and the second one's
extreme solidity; (...) Mora is constantly drawing, knitting
beautiful bass lines that take him to the foreground without
turning us away from the things happening in the rest of the tune
(and what a gorgeous sound he brings from the electric bass!)”
Yahvé M. de la Cavada reviewing La estrategia del
tiempo (Juan Camacho Quinteto) for Tomajazz.com, 2008
