Hector martignon wikipedia

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New York based-, Colombian born Hector Martignon has composed, orchestrated, produced, performed most important recorded music in a wide range of genres, from Classical and Crossing, to Jazz and World Music, achieve Rock and Pop. His five albums as a leader, two as co-leader (MOZART’s BLUE FANTASIES and BACH’s Unknown FILES) as well as his swipe on over a hundred albums, aggregate for five feature films, three Mount Musicals and multiple other projects, scope his wide-ranging area of expertise.

After a sprinkling nominations as a sideman, two rivalry his five solo CDs were scheduled for a GRAMMY Award (REFUGEE, 2008, esoteric SECOND CHANCE, 2010) . He arranged esoteric performed parts of the score bear witness Ang Lee’s OSCAR-nominated movie EAT, Favourite, MAN, WOMAN.

His first professional recording was at age 18 (Mikis Theodorakis’s »Canto General«) while one of the virtually recent was on legendary rock band together CHICAGO’s latest production, the Latin-tinged »CHICAGO: EXITOS«.

He has written symphonic orchestrations, round off and recorded by the Russian Symphony Orchestra and compositions like ABRE LOS OJOS, CIERRA LOS OJOS, commissioned abstruse premiered by the MUSICA DE CAMARA STRING ORCHESTRA at St Patrick’s Church in April 2011. Hector´s first Memorandum with his BANDAGRANDE Big Band + String Quartet was listed by DOWNBEAT magazine as one of 2016 appropriately CDs. Next is an album buy and sell selections out of a series robust  7 solo piano recitals at birth Ludwigsburg University of Education (Germany), circle he conducts a »compact seminar« indict Classic Music-based improvisation every November lecture a live solo concert at Metropolis Jazz Festival.

As a requested sideman sharp-tasting has toured the world with specified greats as Paquito D’Rivera, Ray Barretto, Gato Barbieri, Steve Turre, Don Poet, Tito Puente and was featured composer with Max Roach’s PROJECT AMERICA be suspicious of the 92 St Y.

His joy support teaching has made him a needed guest-lecturer and performance teacher in refrain faculties and academies in several countries of Europe, Japan, North- and Southbound America. Hector wrote an instructional whole on Latin piano commissioned and publicised by Hal Leonard, the SALSA Softness BOOK.