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Guillermo Nojechowicz

Guillermo Nojechowicz is a drummer, composer and educator from Argentina. His music has been featured on NPR, and Sirius Radio. He has recently played at the Panama Jazz Festival. He will perform at Sam First, Los Angeles, CA on 6/26.

About Me

Argentinean drummer and composer Guillermo Nojechowicz grew up in Buenos Aires, listening to Astor Piazzolla, Luis Alberto Spinetta, and Oscar Peterson. His ensemble El Eco has been called a Latin jazz pioneer. Guillermo’s latest disk, Puerto de Buenos Aires 1933, chronicled his family’s flight from Warsaw in the years leading up to the Holocaust. Reacting to the album, composer Osvaldo Golijov said, “there is something very powerful about these compositions” and jazz vocalist Luciana Souza called it “a beautiful and important record.” Over the years, Guillermo has played with Romero Lubambo, Donny McCaslin, Brian Lynch, Hendrick Meurkens, and Airto Moreira, the master Brazilian drummer who played with jazz legend Miles Davis. He was fortunate to have trumpeter extraordinaire Claudio Roditi as a dear friend, mentor, and featured performer on his earlier CD, Two Worlds. His music has been featured on NPR’s Jazz Set, PRI- NPR-The World, and WGBH. Guillermo’s latest project is the Jazz World Trio, featuring South African pianist Witness Matlou. Recently his music was featured in a documentary film “Jazz Saved My Life” directed by Justin Freed. The event premiered at the Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline, MA featuring Grammy winner Maria Schneider. Last April, he traveled to Argentina where he performed with his new group Norte y Sur Quartet, at BeBop in Buenos Aires. He was also in Santiago, Chile teaching a Master Class at the Conservatory de Santiago. In 2024, Guillermo performed the Panama Jazz Festival. The festival headliner were drummer Billy Cobham. The Festival’s Artistic Director is pianist and humanitarian Danilo Perez (Wayne Shorter). On June 26, 2024, he will perform at Sam First, Los Angeles, CA with a new project Norte y Sur Quartet, featuring French pianist Christian Jacob (Tierney Sutton).

An international clinician and educator, Guillermo has taught at the Berklee Five Week Summer Program since 2010 and at New England Conservatory. He has a Film Scoring degree from Berklee College of Music and a Master’s in Education from American International College. He teaches at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School. In addition to creating the school’s percussion program, he has also created the school’s World Jazz Ensemble (WJE). He has led his WJE students in workshops with guest artists Joshua Redman and Wynton Marsalis through a collaboration with Harvard University. The group has performed at the Panama Jazz Festival. Guillermo also led his WJE students in a performance with former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky at Google in Cambridge, MA

Guillermo has performed with Carly Simon, Claudio Roditi, Jon Faddis, Danilo Perez, Airto Moreira, Tiger Okoshi, Romero Lubambo, Walter Vanderlei, Hendrik Meurkens, among others. He has also taught at the New England Conservatory. Guillermo has studied with Charlie Banacos, Herb Pomeroy, Duduka DaFonseca, Gary Chaffee and Portinho in the US and with Beatriz Tabares and Chiche Heger in Argentina.

My House Concert Story

Recently I played at BeBop the premier jazz club in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was an amazing and powerful experience. Buenos Aires is my home town so a lot of friends and family were there. I presented a new project Norte y Sur Quartet. The place was almost sold out. What a wonderful evening of music. Last January '24, I played at the Panama Jazz Festival. That was also great. I traveled with my jazz students. I taught a Drum Master Class and played with my own quartet. I met Master drummer Billy Cobham who was the special guest for the festival. Simply amazing to meet him in person!