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Jorge Luis Pacheco

Jorge Luis Pacheco, is one of the leading pianists of the new generation of jazz in Cuba.

He was a First Prize Winner of the International Contest for Young Jazz Musicians (Jojazz_2007). He is a Pianist, percussionist, composer and musical director. He studied piano and percussion at the music school “Alejandro García It Caturla “later graduated percussionist in the conservatory “Amadeo Roldán” and worked as a professor at the conservatory “Guillermo Thomas “. Currently he in his last year of studies in composition at the prestigious Institute of Superior arts in Cuba.

In October 2010, Pacheco performed as a guest pianist Lincoln Jazz Band Center in New York who runs the world-renowned trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s visit to Cuba. He has participated in concerts and festivals in Cuba, Germany, Spain, Italy, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, Mexico and the USA.

He has shared the stage with musicians such as Chucho Valdés, Gonzalito Rubalcaba, Bobby Carcacés, Leo Brouwer, Javier Zalba, Horacio”el negro”Hernandez, Giovanni Hidalgo, Armando Gola, Orlando Sanchez, Pablo Milanes, Haydee Milanes, Guido López Gavilan, Harold Lopez Nusa, Amadito Valdes, Teté Caturla (these two are past members of the Buena Vista Social Club), Alexander Abreu, Issac Delgado, Miguel Zenon, Stanley Clark, Arturo O’ Farrill, Robert Sund, Rolando Luna and others. In 2011, he toured the United States for the first time with Soneros De Verdad in the midst of which he performed in New York as a special guest of the famous musician Arturo O’ Farrill and his Jazz Band at Birdland.

In 2010, Pacheco recorded his album called Pacheco’s Blues in the Abdala Studios along with his quartet with Chucho Valdes and producer Joaquín Betancourt as advisors. Beatriz Márquez, a famous Cuban singer also recorded a duet called “Silencio” with Jorge Luis Pacheco. Pacheco has composed works for solo piano, saxophone, piano, cello, classical and popular percussion, string orchestra, jazz quartet, and symphony orchestras.

In February 2013, Pacheco won the Best Jazz Project Award in Cuba.The same year he received the Best Video clip Award in the Cubadisco Festival 2013 in the jazz category for the song ” Negrita Mia” which he wrote and recorded in his album ” Pacheco’s Blues”

In 2014, Jorge Luis Pacheco traveled to the United States for an exchange with the music department at the Towson University in Maryland. He also performed at the Cab Calloway school of music at the request of Cab Calloway’s daughter Cabella Calloway as well as the Blue Note Jazz Festival in New York.

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From a country hot in climate and culture, Jorge Luis Pacheco has emerged. The young, passionate Cuban pianist plays with versatility, agility and dynamism; though a mere 25 years old, he has already been invited by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to guest with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in Havana.Pacheco has also shared the stage with many great musicians, ranging from members of The Buena Vista Social Club to bassist Stanley Clarke. In 2007, he received first prize ...

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Piano

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New York City

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Available for private lessons in Havana, Cuba. Please contact [email protected] for rates and availability.

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