David Peña Dorantes

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David Peña Dorantes (2016)

David Peña Dorantes (* 1969 in Lebrija ) is a Spanish flamenco musician (piano, composition). He works in the field of flamenco nuevo .

Live and act

Dorantes comes from one of the well-known flamenco families. In his paternal grandmother's house, La Perrata, there was a piano that he began to play as a child. But first he learned to play the guitar (on which he even won several competitions as a child). At the age of ten, he turned to the piano and began to develop the structures on which today's development of the flamenco piano is based. One of the first gitano to receive academic training, he graduated from the Seville Conservatory .

At the age of 22 he made his debut in the Alcázar Palace of Seville in the presence of the King and Queen of Spain. His first album, Orobroy , was released in 1998 and was awarded the Flamenco Hoy prize for best instrumental album of the year the following year. Previously he was invited to the Jazz Plaza Festival in Havana. His album Sur followed in 2001 , which was recorded in Paris , Seville and Sofia and in 2003 again received the Flamenco Hoy Prize for the best instrumental album. In 2003 he opened the Womex Festival and the Feria Mundial del Flamenco . In 2004 he released the DVD Flamencos del Siglo XXI , which was recorded live at the Etnosur Festival ( Flamenco Hoy 2004 prize for the best flamenco DVD of the year). In 2005 he composed the piece Lisistrata for orchestra for the National Ballet of Tokyo and performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London with El Cigala . In 2008 his Sur Sinfónico premiered with the Tokyo National Orchestra . His Flamenco Sinfónico was performed repeatedly in 2009 with great success.

Dorante's third album Sin Muros! was released in 2012; most recently the album El tiempo por Testigo was released . Dorantes has worked with Lole Montoya , Alba Molina , El Barrio , Carmen Linares , José Mercé , Renaud Garcia-Fons ( Paseo a dos 2015) and the Taksim Trio. He can also be heard on albums by José Ángel Hevia , Esperanza Fernández , Susheela Raman , Nolasco , Arcángel , Miguel Poveda , Joana Jiménez and Clara Montes .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ José Manuel Gamboa, Pedro Calvo: Guía libre del flamenco . Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, Madrid 2001.
  2. ↑ Manuela Rosado Fernandez: El Flamenco Vive en Madrid . Palibrio, Bloomington, IN 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Peña Dorantes, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peña, David; Dorantes (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish flamenco musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Lebrija