Results for "Madrid"

Juan Camacho

Studied at the Escuela de Música Creativa in Madrid (1984-87), where he later taught Harmony and Composition (1992-96). Studied guitar with guitarist, arranger and prestigious session musician Fredi Marugán (1986-89) and with guitarist and contemporary composers Joe Morris and Jon Damian (Boston, Ma., 1989-91). In 1991 he obtained a Diploma in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music in Boston (U.S.A.). He attended seminars under the direction of such masters as Steve Brown, Walter Bishop Jr., Jack Walrath, Dave Schnitter, Billy Hart, and Bill Dobbins in Sevilla and Alcalá, Spain, in 1985

Gnu Trio

The Gnu Trio was formed by three Argentine musicians living in Madrid, Spain at the beginning of 2007. The saxophonist, Marcelo Peralta, and guitarist, Guillermo Bazzola, first met in 1982 and have since collaborated on countless musical projects both in Spain and Argentina. Andrés Litwin, the youngest member, arrived in Madrid at the end of 2006 after living in Holland and studying at the prestigious Amsterdam Conservatory. Gnu Trio’s musical sensibility is innovative--it cannot be pigeonholed--and knows no stylistic boundaries. While fitting within the wide universe of jazz, it does so from a dynamic and all-inclusive perspective

Julio Awad

Born: April 3, 1977

Born April 3, 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He began to study piano at the early age of seven years, in the Nacional Conservatory Lopez Buchardo. Later he expanded his studies of Compsition, Arrangements, and Orchestra Conductor, with several teachers like Juan Carlos Cirigliano and Lito Valle. At the age of 16 he starts playing piano and composing music for TV shows and Theatres. He plays with Great Argentinean musicians like Juanjo Dominguez, Nestor Marconi, Juan Alberto Pugliano, Adalberto Cebasco, Mike Rivas, Carlos Marzan, Alberto Favero, etc. In 2000 he moves to Spain where he works as Musical Conductor, Pianist and Arrangemer for diferent artists, Shows and Musical Comedies, like "Beauty and Beast", "On the Air", "Zorba", "My Fair Lady","The Phantom of the Opera", "Victor Victoria", "The Producers" etc

Marcelo Peralta

Born: March 5, 1961

Marcelo Peralta Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 5th, 1961, Marcelo Peralta, performer, teacher, composer and arranger, plays all the saxes, piano, accordion, and the Latin American aerophones. He studied piano and music theory at the Antiguo Conservatorio Beethoven, where he obtained a teaching certificate in 1979. At the age of 18, he began to play the baritone sax, showing a particular interest in the music of Serge Chaloff; inspired by John Coltrane, Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman, he went on to Iearn tenor sax, then alto and finally soprano. While studying harmony and composition under tango composer Sebastian Piana, he taught himself to play trumpet, trombone, tuba, violin, clarinet and other Latin American folk instruments

Igor Prochazka

Born: February 6, 1975

Pianist and composer Igor Prochazka was born in Zlin (Czech Republic) in a family of entertainment music professionals. After about ten years of basic classical piano education in Duesseldorf, Germany, he worked as bar pianist, presenting pop and jazz classics in exclusive restaurants and hotels. Now he is based in Madrid, Spain, being member of various jazz and world music projects. Currently he is mainly working with his band Igor Prochazka Trio with Christian Perez (double- bass) and Diego Gutiérrez (drums), some of the most in-demand musicians in the capital's Jazz scene.

Anthony Ocaña

Born: March 7, 1980

Composer/guitarist with a personal voice where layers of different genres – classical, contemporary, minimal, pop, progressive rock, Caribbean, Latin American and jazz - are interwoven in a unique, unclassifiable style. He is born in the Dominican Republic on March 7th, 1980, is educated in the island, the USA and Spain, then becomes a Spanish citizen in 2007. His musical path begins at age 5 when he asks his father for piano lessons; once he starts learning music, he knows he would dedicate his entire life to it. At age 14 he begins studying classical guitar and enrols in the National Conservatory of Music in Dominican Republic studying with guitarist Ruben Gonzalez

Sergio Fulqueris

Born: July 7, 1970

Buenos Aires, Argentina. He began studying with some of the more important musician from Argentina (Walter Malossetti, Ricardo Pellican, Armando Alonso, Mateo Crespi, Ismael Spitalnik, Juan Carlos Cirigliano and Ian Guest). In Spain, he graduated as Classical Guitar Professor of the “Conservatorio Ángel Árias Maceín”, and then he earned the title of Graduate in Jazz, at the “Conservatorio Superior de Navarra” (four years). He is teaching music for over twenty years. In Buenos Aires he worked in the “Academia de Música Ricardo Pellican” and in the “Escuela de Música Efimus”

Maureen Choi: A Fusion of Passion and Intent

by Jim Worsley
August 5, 2019

Maureen Choi is certainly not the first musician to find their way into the improvisational jazz world after years of training as a classical violinist. It was an unlikely direction for a woman who grew up with formal classical training and further had never really listened to jazz. Fast forwarding to the present, we now have ...

Maureen Choi Quartet: Theia

by Geno Thackara
June 22, 2019

It is appropriate that Maureen Choi's career has included extensive teaching stints in jny: New York City and her newer home base, jny: Madrid. Both have a rich musical history bridging the body-moving and the cerebral. The Choi quartet honors both on their third outing Theia; it's a work overflowing with smarts which never forgets to ...

Jorge Cariglino

Jorge Cariglino is a jazz musician, guitarist, composer, arranger and producer.

He was born in Buenos Aires where he studied with the most outstanding jazz musicians of the Buenos Aires scene, he developed his musical skills creating his own style based on the natural fusion of jazz with its cultural environment of the Rio de la Plata movement.

He is an eclectic composer who, due to his long career, covers different styles but always with a very refined aesthetic and following the great stream of the jazz guitar masters, such as Wes Montgomery and Pat Martino. His guitar playing is fluid, virtuous, strong and his sound is warm and clean. He currently lives in Madrid, where he teaches jazz and contemporary music, as well as playing with his group throughout Spain. At the same time he composes and produces his own music: