Harold López-Nussa

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Harold López-Nussa (2010, Brussels)

Harold López-Nussa Torres (born July 13, 1983 in Havana ) is a Cuban jazz musician ( piano , composition ).

Life

López-Nussa is the son of the jazz drummer Ruy López-Nussa Lekszycki and the piano teacher Mayra Torres. He began taking piano lessons at the Manuel Saumell Conservatory when he was eight. In 1995 he moved to the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory. He soon concentrated on training as a classical concert pianist and graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte - all training centers were in his hometown Havana. He gave solo concerts and performed with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra as well as with the Symphony Orchestra of the Province of Holguín and the Symphony Orchestra of the Province of Matanzas and the Lyceum Mozartiano Havana. His album Cinco Conciertos para Piano y Orquesta de Heitor Villa-Lobos was recorded in 2003.

In 2007 he decided to pursue a career in jazz and built his own band. He subsequently performed with musicians such as Chucho Valdés , David Sánchez , Horacio "El Negro" Hernández , Christian Scott , Stefon Harris , Bobby Carcassés , Elmer Ferrer and Alexander Brown . Between 2008 and 2011 he accompanied Omara Portuondo as pianist on international tours; he is currently a member of the Maraca & The Monterey Latin Jazz All-Stars .

Under his own name he has released albums such as Sobre el atelier (2007), Canciones (2008), Herencia (2009), El país de las maravillas (2011) and New Day (2013), for which he also composed. With his trio, which currently consists of bassist Felipe Cabrera and his younger brother, drummer Ruy Adrian, and as a soloist, he played in major jazz clubs, but also at international festivals such as the Montreux Jazz Festival , Montreal Jazz Festival , San Francisco Jazz Festival , and Jazz in Marciac , North Sea Jazz Festival , Jazz à Vienne and the Moers Festival . He also recorded with Leo Brouwer and composed for the film.

The well-known and successful Cuban jazz pianist Ernán López-Nussa is Harold's uncle.

Prizes and awards

In 2005 López-Nussa won first prize and the listener's prize at the solo piano competition of the Montreux Jazz Festival. He was also awarded the Jazz Talent 2011 by the French ADAMI. As a film composer, he received the prize for the best original soundtrack at the 9th New Filmmakers Exhibit for his music for the documentary Salvador de Cojímar by Ernesto Sánchez . He received the Cubadisco 2014 for the music to Fábula by Lester Hamlet .

Discographic notes

  • Alune Wade & Harold López-Nussa Havana Paris Dakar ( Harmonia Mundi 2015)
  • Te Lo Dije (Mack Avenue, 2020)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait (Montreux Jazz Festival) ( Memento from May 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Brief portrait (Moers) ( Memento from May 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Wendy Guerra : El niño que vino en el piano , El Mundo , April 7, 2011 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME López-Nussa, Harold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES López-Nussa Torres, Harold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban jazz musician (piano, composition)
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana