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06-16-2010, 04:00 PM
Famous Dominican Grammy award-winning jazz pianist Michel Camilo is booked for an 8:30pm Friday, 30 July concert at the Gran Teatro Regional del Cibao in Santiago. He will be accompanied by Cuban Charles Flores on bass and American Cliff Almond on drums. The production is named "Michel Camilo Trio." Camilo is rated as one of the leading American jazz figures. The evening promises fiercely brilliant jazz music spiced with Caribbean rhythms, improvisation and Latin flair.
Camilo was born in Santo Domingo and studied for 13 years at the National Conservatory. At the age of 16 he became a member of the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic. He moved to the US in 1979, where he studied at the Mannes College of Music and at The Juilliard School. The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) selected him as co-artistic director together with Leonard Slatkin of the first Latin-Caribbean Music Festival at the Kennedy Center, where he also performed with his Trio and his Big Band and had the world premiere of his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, commissioned by the NSO and conducted by Slatkin. Camilo was named the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair at the DSO in the 2009-2010 season, and this lasts through the 2010-2011 season. For a review on the Trio's performance, see www.freeismylife.com/2010/05/review-michel-camilo-trio-friends-at.html (http://www.freeismylife.com/2010/05/review-michel-camilo-trio-friends-at.html)
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Camilo was born in Santo Domingo and studied for 13 years at the National Conservatory. At the age of 16 he became a member of the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic. He moved to the US in 1979, where he studied at the Mannes College of Music and at The Juilliard School. The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) selected him as co-artistic director together with Leonard Slatkin of the first Latin-Caribbean Music Festival at the Kennedy Center, where he also performed with his Trio and his Big Band and had the world premiere of his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, commissioned by the NSO and conducted by Slatkin. Camilo was named the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair at the DSO in the 2009-2010 season, and this lasts through the 2010-2011 season. For a review on the Trio's performance, see www.freeismylife.com/2010/05/review-michel-camilo-trio-friends-at.html (http://www.freeismylife.com/2010/05/review-michel-camilo-trio-friends-at.html)
For more on upcoming events, see www.dr1.com/calendar (http://www.dr1.com/calendar)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)