ALEX CONDE TRIO: FLAMENCO MEETS JAZZ
**Price includes brunch, music and a drink.**
Alex Conde is a vibrant, young jazz pianist, improviser, composer and music educator living in San Francisco, California. A Spaniard, Alex is a graduate in classical music from the Jose Iturbi Conservatory of Music in Valencia and in jazz piano from el Liceu de Barcelona in Spain. He won a scholarship to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he received the Jazz Revelation Award and earned a degree in jazz performance in 2009.
Alex has studied with contemporary jazz luminaries including George Garzone, Danilo PĂ©rez, Dave Santoro, and Grammy Award-winners Joe Lovano, Maria Schneider, Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding....
read more
ALEX CONDE TRIO: FLAMENCO MEETS JAZZ
**Price includes brunch, music and a drink.**
Alex Conde is a vibrant, young jazz pianist, improviser, composer and music educator living in San Francisco, California. A Spaniard, Alex is a graduate in classical music from the Jose Iturbi Conservatory of Music in Valencia and in jazz piano from el Liceu de Barcelona in Spain. He won a scholarship to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he received the Jazz Revelation Award and earned a degree in jazz performance in 2009.
Alex has studied with contemporary jazz luminaries including George Garzone, Danilo PĂ©rez, Dave Santoro, and Grammy Award-winners Joe Lovano, Maria Schneider, Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding.
He has appeared with renowned flamenco companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the country, including Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco, with whose performance he was nominated for an Izzie (Isadora Duncan Dance) Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Text in 2011. Alex tours regularly with Juan Siddi Flamenco Santa Fe Aspen Ballet, in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Aspen, Colorado, NYC, Hawaii on some of the most important stages on the US.
He has collaborated with many great flamenco artists including Nino de los Reyes, JosĂ© Luis RodrĂguez, Kina Mendez, Coral de los Reyes, JosĂ© Valle "Chuscales", Jesule de Utrera and others.
Alex has performed in international jazz and world music festivals, along with top artists such as Jamey Haddad (Paul Simon), John Patitucci, Chucho Valdés, The Bad Plus, Vicente Amigo, Dave Samuels and many others. Some of the festivals include: Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, Eurojazz Festival in Mexico, Yoshi's San Francisco JazzFest, Cowell Theatre in San Francisco, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, Panama Jazz Festival, Beantown Jazz Festival in Boston, and in Canada the Vancouver International Flamenco Festival, Halifax Jazz Festival, and Flamenco Festival Maria Osende.
Alex's albums to date include: Jazz and Claps, recorded with international artists from Greece, Japan, Spain and the U.S.; Barrio del Carmen, a fusion of flamenco, jazz and classical Spanish music blended with a string quartet and "cante jondo" (flamenco deep song); and Monk, a tribute album to the late, great Thelonious Monk currently being recorded with the Bay Area-Flamenco Jazz Ensemble at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California, and slated for release in 2014.
Alex was honored to perform at the 2012 opening concert of the Berklee College of Music — Valencia Campus (Spain), and was on faculty with Oakland School for the Arts from 2011 — 2014.
Alex Conde »
Alex Conde @ Facebook »
Alex Conde @ Twitter »
Alex Conde @ Instagram »
Alex Conde @ YouTube »
show less
