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Carlos Cippelletti
Pianist, composer and arranger Carlos Cippelletti, is a promising young Spanish, Franco-Cuban artist from the last generation of Afro-Cuban jazz musicians born outside the island.
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Pianist, composer and arranger Carlos Cippelletti, is a promising young Spanish, Franco-
Cuban artist from the
last generation of Afro-Cuban jazz musicians born outside the island.
He is a two-time winner of the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation Scholarship, and four-
time winner of the AIE
Scholarship (artists and interpreters Association of Spain). He was awarded first prize in
both the Malaga
International Jazz Festival Competition, Portón del Jazz and the international 7 Virtual Jazz
Club competition
and was awarded for his outstanding academic achievements at the Alfonso X el Sabio
University.
In 2018 Carlos toured Europe with the JM Jazz World Orchestra — the world’s premiere
youth jazz orchestra
led by renowned trombonist Luis Bonilla. In 2021 he graduated with a Master's degree in
Latin Jazz from
Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam. Fulbright Scholarship to do the Master of
Music / DMA in New York.
His most recent project and first album entitled HYBRID/C, is a musical and cultural fusion
project with a
common point that is Afro-Cuban music and jazz. Jazz serves as a vehicle on this journey
to the roots of Cuban
music and Afro-Cuban culture from a modern musical perspective. Born in Spain to a
Cuban father and French
mother, Carlos Cippelletti”s compositions reflect his various identities. Afro-Cuban music
tradition, Jazz, Neo-
Soul and classical music combine to create a sound all its own. This album collects the
traditional Afro-Cuban
jazz sextet format, (trumpet, tenor sax, piano, double bass, congas/batá drums and drums)
including a seventh
element that is electronics and synthesizers, creating a point of union between tradition
and modernity.
HYRBID/C, is a fusion project that shows how, regardless of our roots and age, beauty
always prevails, and
unites us through the most universal language we know, music.