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Musician

Alvaro Rojas is a guitarist, composer and educator based in Vancouver B.C. As a guitarist he has been a regular performer with local pop, r’n’b, and free improv artists, as well as leading his own Alvaro Rojas Trio and the dub reggae band Big Buck. As a composer, Alvaro has had his works performed by many of Canada’s finest new music groups, including the Turning Point Ensemble, Aventa Ensemble and the Microcosmos String Quartet. He has written music for choir, big band, orchestra and various chamber groups, and has scored 15 short films. His passion for many types of music is synthesized in the trio’s recent recording, Gala, which brings a broad range of influences together in the familiar guitar/bass/drums trio setting

Album

Plays Reid Anderson's "The Vastness of Space"

By Alvaro Rojas

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Enthusiast; Talons; Foxy; Prehensile Dream; The Owl; Reclusive; Melismatic Clouds of Joy; The Captain; Silence is the Question

Album

Music for 22

By Alvaro Rojas

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Meditation Park; Down Under; Wish; Double Dragon; Past Lives (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow); Tiger Dreams; Music For 22; Smothered in Tragedy; BB Tango; Caiman; Estrella Magica.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Sacred & Profane

by Michael Ambrosino
June 10, 2023

No sacred cows here. And the only profanity you'll hear is the jazz police complaining about so much music breaking their archaic rules. On this episode of Currents we feature Joe Chambers, Eric Reed, Bobby Sanabria, Matt Ulery, Lauren Henderson, Kendrick Scott, Joe Farnsworth, Snarky Puppy, Leon Foster Thomas, Vince Mendoza, Alvaro Rojas and Sanah Kadoura. ...

Article: Album Review

Alvaro Rojas: Music for 22

Read "Music for 22" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 14, 2023

Whether it was an unintentional or deliberate act, Alvaro Rojas' Music for 22 creates a perfect movie soundtrack. It is just that the film has yet to be made. His approach is to blend a string quartet both with his electric and resonator guitars, varying the scenarios and emotions as if he were scoring a film. ...

Album

Gran Kasa

By Alvaro Rojas

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Little Bell ; I Know I Know ; Everybody Wins ; Tu, la Tierra (feat. Susana Baca) ; Gran Kasa ; At the Window ; Year of the Dog ; Harmonium ; Hum Hum ; Beijing ; Shelter