Event Description
World class Cuban pianist Pablo Cardenas presents a show dedicated to the Latin American musical legacy at Hermann’s Jazz Club, with music from Astor Piazolla (Argentina), Chabuca Granda (Peru), Violeta Parra (Chile), Egberto Gismonti (Brazil), Ernesto Lecuona (Cuba), Antonio Lauro (Venezuela), Mercedes Sosa (Argentina) and more.
Special guests, Pedro Siqueira (Brazil) on percussion / vocals, and also vocalists Olivia Olavvca (Chile), Daniela Carmona (Colombia), also on the all stars line up, Louis Rudner bass, Kelby MacNayr drums, Nicolas Marquez congas, Pablo Cardenas piano / musical direction.
Pablo Cardenas is a Cuban Jazz pianist, composer, music educator and arranger with different influences like Afro-Cuban, Latin jazz, Jazz Fusion, Modern Jazz, Classical and more. He studied classical performance at the Superior Institute of Arts in Havana, Cuba. Since the 2000s he has been performing in music festivals in Havana and internationally. He has been residing in Canada since 2011 where he created different music projects as The West Coast Cuban Orchestra, highly contributing for the development of the Afro-Cuban music and jazz scene in the area, performing at the most important venues and festivals around, and collaborating with many accomplished musicians like Canadian treasures Dee Daniel and Denzal Sinclair. Pablo has been also collaborating with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra in the last years.