Javier Alcantara
Musician, guitarist, composer, improviser, teacher, music therapist, researcher, art director, and organizer of the Festival International de Jazz de Badajoz and Badejazz International Seminar.
Degree in Jazz Guitar Improvisation and the University of Évora
Master in Music Therapy from the University of Extremadura
Master in Neuropsychology & Education
He studied jazz and improvisation in Spain, Italy, New York, and Portugal.
Work in different formations jazz, bossa nova, improvised music, dance, theater, and poetry, both his name as a freelance musician.
Record and co-produced his first album with Quartet Special training in the album called Namouche collaborate renowned musicians as Perico Sambeat, Alexis Cuadrado and Hugo Alves, all original songs. Special Quartet was nominated in the category Best Group / Artist and in the category Best Album for Namouche in II Awards Gala in Extremadura Music Sonora held on May 23, 2009 at the Grand Theatre Cáceres.
In June 2014 released their second album, SHORT STORIES, and first as a leader. Short Stories contains eleven original tracks and the group is composed of Extremadura Narciso González (tenor and soprano saxophones) and the Portuguese Diogo Santos (piano, keyboards and melodica), André Ferreira (bass) and André Mota (drums), with musicians sharing different projects. André Fernandes, one of the most prominent jazz guitarists of Portugal intervenes as a guest on Elf Light
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August 11, 2016
Javier Alcántara's music walks ahead, strongly and personality . Narciso González.
A work of composition and arrangements elogiable, with the rhythmic solid one and simultaneously subtlely that is come to add to increasingly extensive record production of the national jazz, which in many occasions does me to rethink the well-known comment of the crisis of the record sector . Joaquín Chacón
Primary Instrument
Guitar
Willing to teach
Advanced only