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Lluc Casares

Born: August 31, 1990

Lluc Casares (Barcelona, ​​1990). Tenor Saxophone and Clarinet, fond of composition and arranging for different instrumental formats.

Lluc is the first person from the Iberian Peninsula to have studied the prestigious Artist Diploma program at the Juilliard School in New York City under the tutelage of master teachers as Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Washington and Ben Wolfe.

Lluc has released 4 albums as a leader; the last one, Ride (The Changes 2023), recorded in Amsterdam featuring the master guitarist Jesse Van Ruller. Then Septet (The Changes 2021) and before that Sketches Overseas (Outside In Music 2018), recorded in New York. Sketches Overseas won the “Best Jazz Album of 2018” award by the Enderrock magazine in Spain. Red (Temps Records 2015) was his first album as a leader. Lluc has recorded more than 20 albums as a sideman, co-leads the Barcelona Art Orchestra and is member of the bands Smack Dab or The Gramophone Allstars Big Band among others. He has played in some of the most important festivals in Europe such as the North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Marciac Jazz Festival, Jazz Middelheim, Baloise Session, and the Terrassa Jazz Festival among others. He has also played in clubs such as the Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola and Fat Cat in NYC, Bimhuis in Amsterdam, Jamboree in Barcelona and the Jazz at Lincoln Center in Shanghai. Throughout his career, Lluc has been fortunate to share stage with such musicians as Dr. John, Nicholas Payton, Frank Wess, Phil Woods, Lee Konitz, Jon Faddis, Jesse Davis, Joe Farnsworth, Jesse Van Ruller, Arturo Sandoval, Wendell Brunious, Grant Stewart, Ben Van Gelder or Benjamin Herman among others.