Blanco played piano, composes music and makes films. 3 critically acclaimed albums, 2 feature length scripts, 9 short films
JAZZ PIANIST, COMPOSER and FILMMAKER Steve Blanco has been
forging ahead with self-
made creative works for over a decade. Born in Nyack, New York to a
French-speaking
Moroccan belly dancer (mother) and film editor with a love of music and
art (father), Blanco
was exposed to artistic expressions from many different cultures.
Growing up he learned
the trumpet then drums and didn't arrive at the piano until age 23.
Blanco’s music has been called “Progressive Jazz at its finest” and his
latest
album Piano
Warrior (Art Of Life Records) is said to “Move like the warrior of its title -
FEROCIOUSLY
and
in an ever-changing terrain.”
Blanco was selected to serve as a music composition grant panelist for
the prestigious
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).
He has released three
critically acclaimed
CDs,
produced a music video (directed by Blanco) and currently leads a
piano trio with Adam
Roberts and Sunny Jain, but performs regularly in solo and duo settings.
Steve also contributes to the Munich-based Orkaan Orkestra led by
composer and bassist
Juergen Reiter
In addition to performing music on a professional level, Blanco has
directed eight short
films (many of which have been official selections at festivals), written a
feature – length
script, and scored several of these films. He has served as writer, editor
and
cinematographer either altogether or in combinations on each of these
films. He has been
producer on all.
Blanco accredits his father as a major influence in bringing to the
surface an array of
emotional experiences stemming from creative masterpieces in music,
cinema, art,
writings, and philosophy that he would have otherwise not been exposed
to as a young
child.
From his childhood music has always been a driving force and ever
present in his
existence. After teaching himself for a few years Blanco privately
studied piano before
receiving a B.F.A. from Purchase Conservatory in New York. Blanco is
the CoFounder of
Insomnia Creations with Louis Cuffari and James Bartolozzi, and a
contributing editor for ic
magazine.
Blanco resides in New York City. I don't know WTF it says
Hartford...I've never lived in
Hartford.
