Fabian Almazan

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Fabian Almazan (born April 16, 1984 in Havana ) is a Cuban- US-American jazz pianist and film composer .

Life

Almazan, who first grew up in Cuba, then had classical piano lessons with Conchita Betancourt in Miami , where he attended the New World School of the Arts as a high school from 1998 to 2002 . In 2003 he received a scholarship to the Brubeck Institute in California, where he studied with Mark Levine and played with Dave Brubeck and Christian McBride . He then studied in New York City at the Manhattan School of Music with Kenny Barron (Masters 2009), had private lessons with Jason Moran and played in Terence Blanchard's band , on whose recommendation he studied at the Sundance Institute's Composers Lab . Then he composed several film scores. He also works as a film musician (including in the George Lucas film Red Tails ) and has participated in the recordings of Terence Blanchard ( Choices , 2009) and bassist Linda Oh ( Initial Here , 2012). With his trio and a string quartet , he performed in 2011 in New York's Village Vanguard . Almazan recorded his 2011 debut album Personalities ( Palmetto Records ), which collects his own chamber music compositions, with Linda Oh and drummer Henry Cole. The follow-up album Rhizome was released in 2014 as the first joint production by Blue Note and ArtistShare .

In 2015 Almazan curated the SWR New Jazz Meeting ; it was there that the album Realm of Possibilities was created with Anna Webber , Chris Dingman , Ryan Feirrera , Linda Oh and Henry Cole .

Discographic notes

Filmography

  • 2011: The Recorder Exam (Direction: Bora Kim)
  • 2011: Exit (Director: Daniel Shea Zimbler)
  • 2011: First Match (Director: Olivia Newman)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portrait in the Washington Post
  2. ↑ ArtistShare Rhizome Project Page ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2016 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. ArtistShare.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.artistshare.com
  3. ↑ Fabian Almazan Realm of Possibilities: SRW New Jazz Meeting 2016 (discussion of jazzthing)
personal data
SURNAME Almazan, Fabian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban-American jazz pianist and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana