It is a real musical delicacy, an attempt to bring together Italian, Spanish and Hungarian culture, an artistic creation with music as the protagonist.
María Toro is a Spanish-born flutist. She has been inseparable from the flute since the age of eight. After completing her music degree, she immersed herself in traditional Galician and Portuguese music, and then developed an interest in jazz and other popular music styles. This clear interest brings him to Madrid in 2005. There, at the Escuela de Música Creativa flute school, he was able to combine study and practice. In 2006, while studying and performing, he plunged into flamenco. In the following years, she plays with the great flamenco masters, especially Jorge Pardo, and begins to work with various flamenco companies, performing with great success all over the world....
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It is a real musical delicacy, an attempt to bring together Italian, Spanish and Hungarian culture, an artistic creation with music as the protagonist.
María Toro is a Spanish-born flutist. She has been inseparable from the flute since the age of eight. After completing her music degree, she immersed herself in traditional Galician and Portuguese music, and then developed an interest in jazz and other popular music styles. This clear interest brings him to Madrid in 2005. There, at the Escuela de Música Creativa flute school, he was able to combine study and practice. In 2006, while studying and performing, he plunged into flamenco. In the following years, she plays with the great flamenco masters, especially Jorge Pardo, and begins to work with various flamenco companies, performing with great success all over the world.
In April 2011 Toro moves to New York. New York City will be the defining moment of his musical career, where he will perform at acclaimed venues such as the Blue Note, Joe´s Pub and the 55th Bar, sharing the stage with artists such as Savion Glover, Jack DeJonette, Jean-Michel Pilc, Ross Pederson and Richard Bona.
He settles in Rio de Janeiro, where he combines his European work with his music career in New York. In New York he records his first album, A Contraluz.
Born in Italy, Daniele di Bonaventura is a composer, arranger, pianist and bandoneonist. From the beginning of his career he has been interested in musical improvisation, although he studied classical music. His collaborations range from classical to contemporary music, from jazz to tango, world music, but he also plays in theatre, cinema and dance performances.
He has performed at the major Italian and international festivals, recorded and performed with Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Stefano Bollani, A Filetta's Choir, David Murray, Miroslav Vitous, Rita Marcotulli, David Liebman, Toots Tielemans, Lenny White, Omar Sosa, Flavio Boltro, Dino Saluzzi, Paolo Vinaccia, Mathias Eick and others. He has recorded and released more than fifty albums on numerous labels, and recorded an opera for bandoneon and string quartet for Harmonia Mundi Record entitled "Sine Nomine".
Kornél Mogyoró is a virtuoso percussionist, drummer and songwriter working in a wide range of musical genres. He has a unique playing style that blends drumming and percussion, and is well versed in hand percussion techniques, finger techniques, and stick techniques. He is constantly on the road, touring with his own bands or as a session musician in Hungary and all over Europe.
Throughout his career he has performed with Hungarian pop, rock, jazz and world music giants such as Gábor Presser, Tátrai Band, Bikini, Edda, Nikola Parov, Kolinda, Marton Juhász's Euro-African Playground, European Mantra, Vojasa etc., as well as with well-known and highly respected international artists and bands, such as Quincy Jones, Deedee Bridgewater, Gary Novak, Alfredo Rodriguez, Richard Bona, Gergő Borlai, Tony Lakatos, Dominique Di Piazza, Benjamin Herman, Raynald Colom, Paulo Russo, Vincent Mascart, the "Dhoad" Gipsies Of Rajastan, or the band Heavy Weather founded by Norwegian bass legend Per Mathisen.
He has performed in over 20 countries at the most famous European jazz and world music festivals, as well as theatre festivals.
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