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Fernando Ulibarri

Fernando Ulibarri is an active performer, composer, and educator based in Miami, Florida. He relocated from his native Costa Rica to Boston in 1998 to study at the Berklee College of Music, where he graduated with a Dual Bachelor’s Degree, in both Music Synthesis and Jazz Composition. After working professionally in the New England area, he moved to Miami to attend Florida International University, where he obtained a Masters of Music degree in Jazz Performance. Fernando has performed concerts at Carnegie Hall, Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica, Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club, Berklee Performance Center, The Bass Museum of arts and various other venues in the United States and abroad. He has given lectures at the Universidad de Costa Rica, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Broward College, New World School of the Arts, and on several occasions has been a clinician for the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. In the winter of 2013 Fernando released his first recording as a leader. Entitled “Transform”, it features all original compositions performed by his working quartet. Fellow band mates Jim Gasior (piano), Josh Allen (bass), and John Yarling (drums) contribute their unique musical vision to nine original compositions. Fernando is currently a full-time faculty member at Broward College, where he serves as both Assistant Professor of Music and as the Program Manager of the Music Technology Area, teaching music technology and production classes, as well as ensembles and jazz guitar. He has also been on the faculty at Miami-Dade College and New World School of the Arts.

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Fernando Ulibarri: Transform

Read "Transform" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Fernando Ulibarri is a guitarist, composer and prominent educator at various institutions in the Miami area. His debut album with his working quartet is framed on aspirations that aim to establish compositional unity but also produce comps that stand on their own. He launches the production with spacey inferences to Miles Davis' early jazz-fusion aura, yet many of these works are cushioned within mainstream jazz persuasions, containing blithe themes and an assortment of cool and breezy swing vamps. Ulibarri speckles ...

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“The quartet has a definitive sound, […] at times ethereal and other worldly. […]It is a tight group.” Jack Goodstein. Blogcritics.org

“It doesn’t get much better than this for jazz listeners of every stripe & hue. I give Fernando & his partners a MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED” Dick Metcalf. Improvijazzation Nation

“A fresh sounding guitarist that makes his music flow with glowing delight” George W. Harris. Jazzweekly.com

“Every note he plays is clearly well thought out, nothing wasted, no more added than exactly what's needed to express each passage. […] His work is resonant, gently abstract, unassuming while irresistible, and never for a moment out of step with itself.” Mark S. Tucker. Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange

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Primary Instrument

Guitar

Willing to teach

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Transform

Self Produced
2014

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