Javier Subatin

Javier Subatin is a contemporary jazz composer and guitarist who is always in the search of learning and exploring improvisation and composition resulting in a constant development as an artist.

Born in Buenos Aires, Javier Subatin is a contemporary jazz composer and guitarist who is always in the search of learning and exploring improvisation and composition resulting in a constant development as an artist.

Currently, he has been a finalist in the Komeda Jazz Festival composers’ competition in Poland.

In 2015, he participated in the Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland) being semi-finalist of the guitar competition.

He is currently working on his first album – Autotelic– as a composer and leader. A project of a guitar-piano duo with the renown Portuguese pianist João Paulo Esteves da Silva.

He is also working in what he called interactive compositions where using an interactive application the listener has the possibility of being part of the piece by activating loops and making his own version of the composition.

Additionally, Javier is working, as composer and bandleader, on a septet project with young musicians of the Superior School of Music. And he is conducting a research study about jazz compositional process with the collaboration of the renown composer Ed Neumeister.

Album Reviews

Autotelic by Jakob Baekgaard

About Javier Subatin's AUTOTELIC: “It’s a lot like parallel play with delightful intersections of unity before each musician resumes and goes off anew over the knolls.” Debbie Burke (All about Jazz writer)