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Dance has always been part of the Canarias Jazz Showroom Festival, just like jazz and dance have been linked throughout history. In the past, the festival has included a concert at the Auditorio’s Hall for enthusiasts of swing dance, but this year’s festival will feature a concert that combines contemporary and traditional dance. On this […]
The young guitarist and composer Christian Cabrera (1997), from La Palma, will offer us Ethereal Vibes, a composition arranged for a quintet that seeks to break free of dogmas by uniting urban sounds with an avant-garde approach. Catchy melodies, mixed-meter passages, jazz improvisations, breakbeat, rap and other elements come together in Cabrera’s first project as […]
Cuarteto Federal is a contemporary jazz quartet of musicians from different parts of Spain. This alliance of veteran artists includes Xacobe Martínez Antelo, who hails from Santiago de Compostela and is known for being the bassist of the group Sumrrá. His companions in this supergroup are Kike Perdomo on the sax, from the Canary Islands; […]
The multi-award-winning fado singer LINA_ is back with a new and extraordinary piece that the German label Galileo Music launched worldwide on January 19, 2024. The title is LINA_ Fado Camões. After being acclaimed by international critics for her work with Catalan producer Raül Refree, who received numerous European awards and has gone on international […]
Geneviève Laurenceau is one of the most brilliant and heterogeneous violinists in France. Due to her multiple roles as soloist, chamber artist, teacher and festival director, she is considered a consummate professional who extends her passion to all forms of her art. She began to play violin at the age of three in her hometown […]
At Christmas in 2024, the ‘Great Gospel Artists’ will present the European tour of American ensemble The Mississippi Mass Choir: “The Gospel Legend Tour“. The Mississippi Mass Choir was founded in 1988 by Frank Williams, who was one of the acclaimed Jackson Southernaires and executive director of the gospel division of Malaco Records. Its first […]
Yamandu Costa, the seven-string genius, is considered one of the world’s most outstanding guitarists! He has been appointed Ibero-American Cultural Ambassador and is one of the world’s living wonders. His virtuosity, talent and culture make Yamandú a truly unique and appealing artist. His music is so complete and creative that it reaches beyond the confines […]
She was born in December 1997 in Vilanova i la Geltrú. After studying violin and viola with Sergei Fatkulin, Ana María Valderrama and Luis del Valle, she continued her Baroque violin studies and historical interpretation with Olivier Fourés and Hiro Kurosaki. She performs with several early-music ensembles, such as La Ritirata, Ensemble Jupiter, Looking Back, […]
Born in Duisburg (Germany), he studied organ, orchestral conducting and religious music at the University of Music and Performing Arts of Vienna, Austria. Invitations extended to him to perform at concerts have taken him to organ festivals throughout Europe, Iceland, the United States, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Argentina and Uruguay. As an organ soloist, he […]
Musical director and titular organist of the San Nicolás Church of Valencia, Atsuko Takano received training as a pianist and organist at Ferris University in Yokohama, Japan, obtaining the ‘Prix d’Exellence’ upon completion of her studies. In 2005, she moved to Germany to further her study of organ, clavichord and harpsichord at the University of […]
Pablo Márquez Caraballo is an organist at Valencia Cathedral and teaches harpsichord at the Higher Conservatory of Castellón. He studied composition, organ, harpsichord and early music at the conservatories of Valencia and The Hague with the professors Michel Bouvard, J. Willem Jansen, Pieter van Dijk, Fabio Bonizzoni, Patrick Ayrton and Ton Koopman. The Valencia Music […]