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Santiago Bertel Puyo

Colombian pianist, composer and educator, Santiago Bertel, plays and creates music that merges together the jazz language and the western classical tradition, with Latin American rhythms. From studying in the Conservatory of music at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, to graduating from Berklee College of Music, thanks to a grant from the Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation, he has performed at major venues around the world such as Palau de Les Arts Reina Sofía, Berklee Performance Center, Field Concert Hall, Luis Ángel Arango Concert Hall, León de Grief Auditorium, among many others. His goal is to explore Latin American music roots and it's fusion with other music styles around the globe, while recreating color and stories throughout his compositions, dynamic sound paintings to nurture both mind and spirit.

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by Katchie Cartwright
October 19, 2025

Elana Sasson's work is singularly intersectional and intercultural, by heritage, training and aesthetic preference. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she was naturally steeped in American music of various sorts and learned fundamentals of Western classical music in school. At home, though, especially with her grandfather and through years of private lessons with the contemporary vocal duo Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat, she listened to and studied the Kurdish and Persian classical music of her ancestry. ...