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Adrián Moncada

Adrián Moncada is an Amsterdam based pianist and composer originally from Madrid, Spain. He started this studies in the Netherlands in 2014, and graduated Cum Laude from the jazz performance program at CvA in 2020.

During his time in NL he received lessons and masterclasses from musicians like Brad Mehldau, Gerald Clayton, Harmen Fraanje, Rob van Bavel, Karel Boehlee and Franz von Chossy.

He has participated in various prestigious competitions such as: Keep an Eye Competition, Dutch Jazz Competition, and Leiden Jazz Award; and played in some of the most important venues in Europe: Bimhuis (Amsterdam), Lantarenvenstern (Rotterdam), North Sea jazz (Rotterdam), Hot club Portugal (Portugal) and Jamboree Jazz (Spain).

His main projects are: Adrián Moncada 6tet, with which he is releasing his debut album the 31stof March 2021, and Adrián Moncada with strings. These two bands serve as a laboratory of his own ideas and compositions.

In addition to his own projects, he is a sought after piano player as a sideman in some of the upcoming young bands in the Netherlands, such as: Liquid Identities, Noneto Desconcertante, Garden Crack, Alba Careta Group, Marta Arpini Forest Light, James McClure Quartet and Stab Freeze Collective.

More information about these bands and their recordings in:

https://www.adrian-moncada.com

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Album Review

Adrián Moncada: Inhabitable Imagination

Read "Inhabitable Imagination" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Madrid-born, Amsterdam-based pianist Adrián Moncada's thrilling Inhabitable Imagination is a tour-de-force of a debut. The music consists of seven Moncada originals which draw inspiration from architecture. Thus it is taut, angular and has a creative momentum which does not slack. Moncada leads a sextet of other expat musicians all of whom share his creative vision, making this release even more engaging. Opening with the “The Bearable Heaviness of Being," a wordplay on Czech writer Milan Kundera's famous novel, ...

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Federico Calcagno: Liquid Identities

Read "Liquid Identities" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Federico Calcagno, venticinquenne clarinettista milanese di stanza ad Amsterdam, dove questo notevole album è stato inciso nel maggio 2019, dopo e ancor più che nel precedente From Another Planet, ispirato a Eric Dolphy, si impone come una delle più interessanti, stimolanti individualità emerse nel panorama del jazz nostrano (pur considerata la sua attuale “pelle" olandese) da un po' di tempo in qua. In questo suo nuovo lavoro è alla testa di un quintetto per il resto iberico-ellenico che ne illustra ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Inhabitable...

Inhabitable Imagination Music
2021

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Liquid Identities

Aut Records
2020

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