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Albert Bover de Soto

Jazz musician from Barcelona, Spain, living in Paris, France now

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Albert Bover is a jazz pianist from Barcelona, Spain, now living in Paris. He has studied classical piano in Barcelona, and in New York with Sophia Rosoff  https://www.abbywhiteside.org/a bout-sophia-rosoff.php. He had studied jazz with Fred Hersch  https://fredhersch.com/, Barry Harris, Sal Mosca and Jaki Byard. He has been playing as a sideman as a professional since 1986 with Al Foster, Art Farmer, Harold Land, Kenny Wheeler, Seamus Blake, Jeff Williams, Philippe Soirat, Arturo Stable, Mark Turner, Eddie Henderson, Sonny Fortune, Jesse Davis, Rick Margitza, Marc Johnson, Jeff Ballard, Guy Lafitte, Ed Thigpen, Oliver Jackson, Ralph Moore, Roy Hargrove, Idris Muhammad, Julian Arguelles y Scott Hamilton. He has played also with spanish musicians like Jorge Pardo, Perico Sambeat  https://pericosambeat.com/, Chano Dominguez, Javier Colina, Marco Mezquida, Albert Sanz, Giulia Valle and Guillermo Mcgill. He has participated in projects with flamenco musicians like Miguel Poveda and Chicuelo. He performed in the shows of Shoji Kojima in Tokio, Kurashiki and Okegawa (2000, 2001, 2005). Also he has made a fusion with andalusi music with Driss elMaloumi. He has participated in almost all the Jazz Festivals in Spain and he has performed a lot as well in Europe, Morocco and South America. Recently he’s been playing in Paris and Montreuil with Gaël Horellou, David Prez, Philippe Soirat, Antoine Paganotti, Viktor Nyberg, Yoni Zelnik, Olivier Robin, Alex Terrier, Fabrizio Nicolas, Jean- Charles Richard, Maxime Fougères, Bruno Rousselet, Raphael Pannier, Duylinh Nguyen, Dominic Lemerle, François Ricard, Nicolas Rageau, Lionel Boccara, Eric Breton, Christian Altehülshorst and Pierre Marcus.

He plays now in trio with David Xirgu  https://davidxirgu.wordpress.com/ biografy/ on drums and Masa Kamaguchi on acoustic bass. He plays with the Olivier Robin quartet  https://www.robinolivier.com/. He also plays in different duets with Marco Mezquida  https://marcomezquida.com/ , Cristina Vilallonga https://www.cristinavilallonga.org/ post/disena-un-blog-increible and Horacio Fumero https://www.facebook.com/profile. php?id=100010376026354.

He has recorded as a leader in trio ”Live in Bilbao”, Esmuc blues and Live in Jamboree, in duet with Marco Mezquida, “Live at Sunset”, in duet with Cristina Vilallonga “Nus”; in duet with Horacio Fumero and solo piano in Old bottle, new wine. And as a side man in CD´s of Perico Sambeat, Gorka Benitez, Chris Kase, Bruce Arkin, Bob Sands, Xavi Maureta, etc.



He is professor at the Jazz Departments of the Music University of Catalonia (ESMUC)  https://www.esmuc.cat/professora t/albert-bover/ where he teaches Piano, Ensembles and Improvisation.He taught also at Liceu Conservatory (2011-2019)), Musikene (2004-2005) and Taller de Musics. He has taught masterclasses also at Baleaeric Island Conservatori(2022), Liceu Conservatory(2021), ESEM (2021,2022), Valencia Conservatory (2020), (Argentina, Chile (2011), Bucaramanga, Colombia (2017), Conservatory of Paris( 2019), Valenciennes(2018), Lisboa, Garachico, La Laguna (Tenerife), Lugo, Madrid, Cádiz, Malaga, Salamanca.Composer and performer of the soundtrack of the film “Tren de sombras(1997)https://www.filmin .es/pelicula/tren-de-sombras and ”De una isla(2019)https://www.filmaffinity. com/es/film781415.html of José Luis Guerín. He has received Best pianist Award of 2002 of the AMMJ, Altaveu Award for the “Esmuc blues” record and Youth Award of the San Juan Evangelista Cultural Association of Music Jazz, Madrid. Albert Bover is a “Steinway Artist” (https://www.steinway.com/artists /albert-bover) since March 2007.