Oscar Penas at Burlington Discover Jazz Festival at City Hall Stage

About

Catalan-American guitarist and composer Oscar Peñas epitomizes a new wave of emerging talented artists. Trained in his native Barcelona, Spain in classical guitar before exploring the Jazz world. Peñas now a New York resident, has been performing and recording since early 2000s throughout his career, and shared his love for music combining performing with teaching. Oscar Peñas’ compositions are diverse transcending and yet merging different genres, cultures and styles with fluidity, grace and power. His style has been described at WNYC as “transnational cool”. Although his music can be called “jazz”, it crosses the boundaries of traditional music labeling, blending the idiom through original compositions with hints of new Spanish folk music and some Brazilian urban grooves.