Six musicians and five cities
Santiago de Compostela, San Sebastián, Barcelona, Sanxenxo and Ibiza, the cities of the members of the Experience 2016
Abe Rábade (piano)
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- Born in Santiago de Compostela on September 8, 1977. He began to study music at the age of 4 at the historic Conservatory in Santiago, where initiation is taught using the Kodály method – a mode of learning in which creativity and intuition prevail-. He continued his education in the centre of jazz “Estudio escola de Música”, also in Compostela. There he studied music with jazz standards, discovering that improvisation could be the maximum expression of this form of art called music. In 1995 he continued his studies in the United States, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree Cum Laude in Jazz Composition and Piano Performance by the Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA) in 1999. In 2000 he returned to the city that he always wants to keep coming back to: Santiago de Compostela.
Gonzalo Tejada (Bass)
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- Gonzalo Tejada (1960). Composer, electric bass and double bass player. Teacher. Degree in psychology from the University of the Basque country. Title of Professor of classical double bass. License of the Basque Government for new music trends, in electric bass. As an interpreter he has developed his career in jazz accompanying national and international soloists and collaborating on multiple disks. He has released five Cds: Ziklo 1 (1994), Traffic (2000), Encore (2005), Special Trio-Tribute to Chet (2011) and Norma Jeane Baker (2015). As a composer he has written, premiered and recorded numerous works of jazz and classical music. String quartets (Moon Festival), quintets for wind (reasons), duos for piano and flute (Divertimento) or (Gabon Kanta) Chamber Orchestra, and compositions and arrangements for Big-Band (Aitormena, Mr.V.M).
Gonzalo Tejada (1960). Composer, electric bass and double bass player. Teacher. Degree in psychology from the University of the Basque country. Title of Professor of classical double bass. License of the Basque Government for new music trends, in electric bass. As an interpreter he has developed his career in jazz accompanying national and international soloists and collaborating on multiple disks. He has released five Cds: Ziklo 1 (1994), Traffic (2000), Encore (2005), Special Trio-Tribute to Chet (2011) and Norma Jeane Baker (2015). As a composer he has written, premiered and recorded numerous works of jazz and classical music. String quartets (Moon Festival), quintets for wind (reasons), duos for piano and flute (Divertimento) or (Gabon Kanta) Chamber Orchestra, and compositions and arrangements for Big-Band (Aitormena, Mr.V.M).David Xirgu (Drums)
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- Born in Badalona. The music he listened to when he was small was, from his father, jazz (Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Modern Jazz Quartet…); from his sisters, soul and funk (Sly and The Family Stone, James Brown, Ottis Redding and Aretha Franklin…); and from his mother: zarzuela, copla and Catalan folklore. Between the ages of 10 and 15, he studied piano and music theory at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu. The drums have always been his instrument, but he played it in a self-taught way. At 18, he began studies in modern music schools (the Taller de Músics and L’aula). From 1985 he has been member and founder of several important groups, like Lluis Vidal trio, with Carmen Canela, Iñaki Salvador, Giulia Valle, Gorka Benítez, Joan Monné and with the Orquestra de Cambra of the Teatre Lliure.
Born in Badalona. The music he listened to when he was small was, from his father, jazz (Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Modern Jazz Quartet…); from his sisters, soul and funk (Sly and The Family Stone, James Brown, Ottis Redding and Aretha Franklin…); and from his mother: zarzuela, copla and Catalan folklore. Between the ages of 10 and 15, he studied piano and music theory at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu. The drums have always been his instrument, but he played it in a self-taught way. At 18, he began studies in modern music schools (the Taller de Músics and L’aula). From 1985 he has been member and founder of several important groups, like Lluis Vidal trio, with Carmen Canela, Iñaki Salvador, Giulia Valle, Gorka Benítez, Joan Monné and with the Orquestra de Cambra of the Teatre Lliure.Virxilio da Silva (Guitar)
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- Virxilio Da Silva was born in Portonovo, Galicia, in 1985. When he finished at the Conservatoire he continued studing at the Seminario Permanente de Jazz de Pontevedra (SPJP). He has a degree in jazz at the ESMAE of Porto. He has recorded and collaborated with numerous international jazz stars like Walter Smith III, Jonathan Blake, Marcus Gilmore, Ambrose Akinmusire, Abe Rábade, Myron Walden, Masa Kamaguchi, Mark Whitfield Jr., Paco Charlín, Javier Vercher and Darren Barrett. Currently, he’s part of the teaching team at the Seminario Permanente de Jazz de Pontevedra (SPJP). In addition to various jazz formations, Da Silva participates in groups of other music styles, such as rock (Foxy Freire) or (Fuzzo) pure improvisation.
Virxilio Da Silva was born in Portonovo, Galicia, in 1985. When he finished at the Conservatoire he continued studing at the Seminario Permanente de Jazz de Pontevedra (SPJP). He has a degree in jazz at the ESMAE of Porto. He has recorded and collaborated with numerous international jazz stars like Walter Smith III, Jonathan Blake, Marcus Gilmore, Ambrose Akinmusire, Abe Rábade, Myron Walden, Masa Kamaguchi, Mark Whitfield Jr., Paco Charlín, Javier Vercher and Darren Barrett. Currently, he’s part of the teaching team at the Seminario Permanente de Jazz de Pontevedra (SPJP). In addition to various jazz formations, Da Silva participates in groups of other music styles, such as rock (Foxy Freire) or (Fuzzo) pure improvisation.Vicent Macian (Tenor Sax)
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Vicent Macián, was born in Sedavi (Valencia, Spain), in 1978. He began his studies at the age of nine and graduated from the Conservatory of Valencia in the specialty of saxophone. His beginnings in jazz are linked to the group promoted by the Valencian musician Francisco Blanco Latin, known as the Sedajazz Big Band. On two occasions, he participated in formations selected by the INJUVE, with the formations led by Albert Sanz, The Jazz Trempessengers and Alberto Sánchez Group. He also participated in the recording of the first CD of the Valencian guitarist Dani Flors (When Least Expected, Fresh Sound records, 2000). In addition, he accompanied Vicente Seguí (2006) in Valencia and was part of the Quartet led by Avishai Cohen in Barcelona (2006).
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Pere Navarro (Trumpet)
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Born in Ibiza in 1994. He has recently graduated from the Taller de Músics in Barcelona. At age 8 he began his studies of trumpet at the Conservatori Professional de Música i Dansa d’Eivissa i Formentera, which he completed with the title of professional grade. During those 10 years, he attended masterclasses with Rubén Marqués (trumpet soloist of the Orquestra Ciutat de Barcelona, and currently the Orchestra of Valencia) and Manuel López (considered one of the best trumpeters of the country) and attended courses such as the SBALZ. At 14 he began to form part of the Eivissa Jazz Big Band. He also received Masterclasses from David Pastor (his teacher in recent years) and attended seminars as SedaJazz in Valencia.
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