Lucía Martínez

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Lucía Martínez Alonso (born March 15, 1982 in Vigo , Galicia ) is a Spanish percussionist and composer.

Lucía Martínez at a concert with Agustí Fernández at just music '17 - Beyond Jazz Festival (2017)

Life

Martínez began studying traditional percussion and the hurdy-gurdy at the age of nine at the Vigo Community College, where she came into contact with musicians from folklore and oral tradition. In 1998 she graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with a degree in classical orchestral percussion and a soloist examination in classical percussion . In 2005 she completed her bachelor's degree in classical percussion at the Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Vigo , and in 2004/05 she practiced with the Real Filarmonía de Galicia Orchestra . She has taken classical percussion lessons and played many concerts with the orchestra.

In addition to her classical training, she has concentrated on vibraphone , drums and jazz composition. In 2006 she completed a Bachelor's degree in Jazz Drums at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo in Porto . In the same year she studied vibraphone and jazz drums with the Erasmus program at the Helsinki Stadia Polytechnic Institute. In 2009 she obtained a master's degree in jazz composition at the University of the Arts in the Berlin Jazz Institute with an overall grade of very good. She has also participated in seminars on big band, composition, vibraphone and drums in Italy, Portugal, Spain and England. Some of her teachers were Michael Lauren , John Hollenbeck , Kurt Rosenwinkel , Jerry Granelli , Jeff Davis , Dave Samuels , John Riley , Garrison Fewell , Dave Friedman, and Severy Pysalo .

Martínez has shared the stage with many musicians from the fields of jazz, folk, traditional music, classical music, etc. a. with Maria João , Perico Sambeat , Carlos Bica , Jason Lindner , Alan Ferber , Alexander von Schlippenbach , Sebastian Schunke , OJM (Orquestra de Jazz de Matosinhos - Portugal), Laszlo Süle, Imaxinasons Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic of Galicia, Uxía Senlle, Mercedes Peón , Rodrigo Romaní, Xabier Díaz and Defne Şahin, to name a few. Martínez plays in various projects as a vibraphonist, percussionist and drummer, such as in the Projekto Miño by bassist Baldo Martínez , in the drum quartet Tim Tim por Tim Tum and in the MBM Trio with Baldo Martínez and Antonio Bravo. Martínez has played at festivals around the world, including the Festival Interceltique de Lorient (France), Folk Festival (Cannes, France), Dranouter Music Festival (Belgium), Celtic Connections (Glasgow, Scotland), Festival of the Sea Music (Cartagena - Spain), Festival Ortigueira (Galicia), VIII Encuentro de Música Antiga de Loulé (Portugal), Festival Imaxinasons (Vigo), Jazz Festival of Vila Real, Jazz Festa do São Luiz do (Lisboa), Festival de Jazz de Primavera (Madrid), JazzFest Berlin , Festival de jazz de Mallorca and Tangier Jazz.

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Martínez's work is shaped by experiences in the fields of classical music, world music and jazz. Her style is shaped by the folk music of Galicia, by flamenco and the sounds of the Mediterranean, which are combined with the new music of the European avant-garde. She leads her own quartet Lucía Martínez Cuarteto and the Lucía Martínez Berlin project Azulcielo . Both groups interpret their compositions.
She also composes music for film and writes for big bands ,

Soños e Delirios , her debut album, which was released in 2009 by Nuba Records / Karonte and recorded with her own band, was nominated as the best jazz album of 2009 in Spain and was shortlisted for the finalists. The album Lucia Martinez Berlin project AzulCielo was released in Germany at the end of 2011 with her own quintet. In 2014 Martínez released the CD De viento y de sal with her Portuguese quartet.

Prizes and awards

Martínez won the first two prizes both as best musician and as best band at the San Luiz Jazz Fest in Lisbon in May 2007 . In 2002 she also received the National Prize for Choir with the Camerata ad libitum .

Discographic notes

  • Irene Aranda , Germán Díaz , Lucía Martínez Tribus (2016)
  • Lucia Martinez & Agustí Fernández Desalambrado (Pasoancho 2015)
  • Lucía Martínez Cuarteto De viento y de sal (Karonte / NubaRecords, 2014)
  • Shotgun Chamber Trio Themes and Dances (Meta Records 2014, with Hannes Buder, Oleg Hollmann)
  • Lucía Martínez Berlin project AzulCielo (Karonte / NubaRecords, 2011)
  • MBM TRIO (Xingra / Karonte, 2011)
  • Soños e Delirios (Karonte / NubaRecords, 2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Discussion of Jazzthing
personal data
SURNAME Martínez, Lucía
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martínez Alonso, Lucía
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish percussionist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Vigo , Galicia