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Joel Moreno Codinachs

Born: July 30, 1973

Joel Moreno Codinachs was born in Barcelona in a very musical family in which almost everybody plays an instrument. He soon chose the guitar influenced by this environment. At the age of 14 he discovered the electric guitar and started to play blues and rock. Soon after he fell in love with the harmonies of Jazz and Brazilian Music. From that time he has been busy playing this music. He leads his trio and quintet and participates in several projects. He has released, with his quintet, Songs for Midnight Dancers (Underpool 2017), his second work as a lider. His debut album, Emergexit (Errabal 2010), was recorded in New York and in the year 2015 he presented PLAY (Errabal 2015) with Diana Palau & Joel Moreno Project a CD result of the collaboration with the singer Diana Palau

Aridane Martin

Born: August 5, 1989

Aridane Martín (1989, Canary Islands, Spain). Aridane attended CPMLPGC and CMMB conservatories. He graduates with the best qualifications (Award of honor in percussion, orchrestal soloist and chamber music) also received several prizes as a chamber musician and percussion soloist. After graduating, he enrolled at the Liceu Conservatory studying with the acclaimed drummer and percussionist Marc Miralta. Aridane has received classes from Jeffery Davies, David Friedman, Eric Sammut, Keiko Abe, Gary Burton. Aridane published in 2017 his first album as leader, "Tiébélé", in two editions, each one designed by a canarian painter with twelve original paintings inspired by his music in an innovative project

Pere Bujosa

Born: March 9, 1992

Mallorcan multi-instrumentalist Pere Bujosa, alongside his trio, has carved out a remarkable path, establishing himself as one of the most exciting emerging voices in contemporary jazz. With over 40 performances under his belt across the Balearic Islands, the Iberian Peninsula, and international stages, Bujosa brings not only technical prowess and virtuosity but also a deep capacity for innovation, which sets him apart as a composer and creative project leader.

Since completing his studies in Amsterdam, he has released four critically acclaimed albums, masterfully blending influences from Balearic folklore with modern jazz and electronic music elements. In his upcoming work, set to be released in 2024, Bujosa reinterprets the legacy of composers connected to the Balearic Islands, such as Chopin and Jaume Mas Porcel, bridging tradition with cutting-edge sounds.

Nicolas Herrera

Born: November 18, 1975

I´m an Argentinian musician based in Barcelona, Spain. I grew up in San Juan, Argentina, a small city next to the Andes Mountains in the west part of the country. There I began studying classical guitar at age 12, and started playing regular gigs on electric guitar by age 15, after studying for several years at the Music Conservatory of the city. In 2000 I moved to Barcelona to continue my career in music and began writing my own material as well. In 2014 I earned a degree in Jazz Guitar after attending the Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña, “ESMUC”. As a renowned guitar performer, I´ve had the chance to work as a freelance artist in different kind of music productions in Europe, South America and even China and Costa Rica

Josep-Manel Vega

Born: March 10, 1965

He began studying musical language and harmony with his grandfather (Josep Baiget),  classical guitar with several teachers (Jordi Belza, Mariano Capella, Guillem Pérez-Quer, William Waters, Danielle Kassner), contemporary music (Joan Munné, Xavier Prats) and flamenco (Manuel Castilla). However, it was by exploring on his own that he developed a personal musical language focused on improvisation, inspired by musicians such as Keith Jarret, Bill Frisell, Ralph Towner or Nguyên Lê.

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Ivan Ilic

Born: July 2, 1979

Ivan Ilic was born in Belgrade (Serbia) in 1979, where he gave his first concerts with his own formations ”Havarija” and later “Free House”. In 1999 he created the band “Solid” comprised of several young talents of that time in Belgrade, with which he recorded the albums “Ta-ta-ta-tira” in 2000 and Jazz & Samba 2003. “Solid” attended the “Nishvile” Festival and “International Festival of Jazz and Blues-Sabac” where they won the award for the best young jazz band of Yugoslavia in 2002. He also has recorded albums for the groups ”Calor de Cuba” and “Uros Stamenkovic Trio”. In 2004 he moved to Barcelona and finished the studies of modern music and jazz in “L´aula de musica moderna i jazz del conservatori Liceu ” in 2006, when he also recorded two albums:” Chily, Claud with Slavich “and ”Dirty shoes & high heels” as a lider of a trio

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Fredrik Carlquist

Born: June 30, 1969

Fredrik Carlquist is a Swedish saxophonist based in Barcelona in Spain. Since his arrival to the Catalan capitol in 2001Fredrik has established himself as one of the strongest sax voices on the city’s jazz scene. With the well balanced and melodic playing heard on Fredrik’s albums from recent years he’s often been compared to players like Stan Getz and Paul Desmond but his musical palette is much broader than that. Even though a kind of cool and airy lyricism has followed him over the years Fredrik definitely knows how to be both hot and loud or free or abstract depending on the moment and the musical situation

Marcos Pin

Born: October 2

MARCOS PIN Jazz Guitarist and composer. Marcos Pin, Galician guitarist and composer , is one of the names you hear again and again, when talking about Jazz in Spain. Heir to the hard bop tradition led by guitarists as Jimmy Raney or Tal Farlow to name a couple, Pin defends the beauty in his sound and flow of his solo lines but with an originality of ideas that fit contemporary times. A modern sound that comes directly as evolution of the great Jazz tradition. Born october, 1974, Marcos started playing guitar at 8 years of age. Lugo, his hometown was not a “Jazz place” at all

Rai Castells

Rai Castells is a jazz guitarist and composer from Barcelona. Graduated Summa Cum Laude in Jazz Performance from Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA. He started his musical studies in Barcelona and after a Berklee World Scholarship he moved to Boston to study at Berklee College of Music. There he earned the Elvin Jones Award, granted by the Performance Department in recognition of Outstanding Musician. He studied with George Garzone, Joe Lovano,Hal Crook, Mick Goodrick, Joanne Bracken among others.