Aruán Ortiz

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Aruán Ortiz (* 1973 in Santiago de Cuba ) is a Cuban jazz pianist .

Live and act

Ortiz first learned the viola and had his first music lessons at the Escuela Vocacional de Arte , which he continued at the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana. In the early 1990s he received several awards before switching to piano in 1992. He studied classical piano at the Conservatorio Profesional de Musica in Santiago de Cuba. In 1995, after winning a composition prize, he received a recording contract with the Spanish record label Magic Music / Universal Latino. In 1996, Impresión Tropical was released , a compilation of traditional Cuban music and Ortiz's original compositions, which he had recorded as a soloist. During this time he received several scholarships and worked with Cecilio Tieles in Spain and with Joanne Brackeen and Danilo Pérez at Berklee College of Music , as well as with Charlie Banacos . In Barcelona and Paris he played a. a. with Antoine Roney , Sarah Morrow , Tata Guines , and in the USA with Wallace Roney , Roy Hargrove , Stefon Harris , George Garzone , Sheila E. , Horacio "El Negro" Hernández , Giovanni Hidalgo , Lionel Loueke , Eric McPherson , Jane Bunnett and John Lockwood .

In a trio with Brad Jones on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums, he performed at major European festivals in 2016, such as the North Sea Jazz Festival or the Montreux Jazz Festival . No other piano virtuoso can do that at the moment, as Ortiz “tracks down the notes, how he lets their reverb waft through the grand piano and float through the vaulted cellar, how he always runs a few seconds ahead of his runs.” He teaches as an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music.

Prizes and awards

Ortiz won the 2000 competition for the best jazz interpretation at the Festival de Jazz in Vic. He was named Arranger of the Year 2011 by the Latin Jazz Corner for his contributions to the album El Cumbanchero by flautist Mark Weinstein . In 2014 he received the Doris Duke Impact Award and the Composers Now Creative Residency Award from the Pocantico Center.

Discographic notes

  • Aruan Ortiz Trio (2005)
  • Alameda (2009), with Antoine Roney
  • The Camerata Urbana Ensemble / Aruán Ortiz: Santiarican Blues Suite (2011)
  • Aruán Ortiz & Michael Janisch : Banned in London: Live at The London Jazz Festival (2011, with Greg Osby , Raynald Colom, Rudy Royston )
  • Bob Gluck / Aruán Ortiz: Textures and Pulsations ( Ictus , 2011)
  • Hidden Voices ( Intakt 2016, with Brad Jones, Gerald Cleaver)
  • Cub (an) ism (Intakt, 2017) solo
  • Cuban Nocturne (Newvelle Records, 2017)
  • Live in Zurich (Intakt, 2018)
  • Don Byron & Aruán Ortiz: Random Dances and (A) tonalities (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cuban Key Magician (BR Classic)
  2. ↑ Better in Birdland than in Trump-Land Augsburger Allgemeine , November 20, 2016
  3. ↑ 2014 Doris Duke Foundation Award Recipients Include 13 Jazz Artists in ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. JazzTimes @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jazztimes.com
personal data
SURNAME Ortiz, Aruán
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban jazz pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Cuba