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Alfredo Balcacer
Currently, Alfredo is finishing his first record entitled "Suspended Sea." This record will be released in 2019, and will showcase all original compositions, blending Dominican and American music.
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Alfredo Balcacer: 9 Paredes
by Dan Bilawsky
If there's anything that can bind the artistic community in 2020, it's an understanding of isolation's impact. For guitarist Alfredo Balcacer, who was quarantining in his home city of Santo Domingo when COVID-19 closed everybody in, a sense of disorder and frustration, leavened by solace and acceptance, quickly became the norm. But rather than sit by and feel helpless, he filtered those feelings into his music.9 Parades" (or 9 Walls") speaks to Balcacer's experiences spending months cooped up ...
read moreAlfredo Balcacer: Suspended Sea
by Dan Bilawsky
The only constant is change, and it's in that phrase that we can best suss out the meaning(s) embedded within this debut from Dominic guitarist Alfredo Balcacer. Expressing both roots and evolutionary branches, Balcacer hangs his lines on the sounds of his homeland while extending their reaches across the Caribbean to address his growth as an artist and immigrant in the United States. What that process yields is both genuine and generative in its expression(s). Rhythms fortified ...
read morePrimary Instrument
Guitar, electric
Willing to teach
Beginner to advanced
Credentials/Background
- BM in Music Performance, Utah State University. Guitar pedagogy certificate. - MM in Music Performance Jazz Studies cognate. - BM in Music, National Conservatory Music, Dominican Republic, 6th semester
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson