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Pianist & composer Pablo Vergara presents
“Songs From The Tower”.
Pablo Vergara, Piano.
Featuring John Ellis (saxophones),
Dan Loomis (bass), Ronen Itzik (drums)
With special guests: Leonor Falcón (violin), Ludovica Burtone (violin), Ina Paris (viola) and Brian Sanders (cello).
Pianist Pablo Vergara’s latest project, “Songs from The Tower”, features recreations of works by post-romantic Chilean composers from the early XXth century. It is a musical tribute to the centennial of the legendary ¨Grupo Los Diez¨ (Group of The Ten), a fellowship of Chilean artists, poets and musicians influenced by Tostoy´’s quest for the spiritual in the arts.
From art song to Scriabin-like vignettes, tone poems and impressionistic landscapes, Vergara's arrangements make the music sound contemporary, while blurring the boundaries between genres in chamber music.
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Pablo Vergara, piano
An award-winning musician who has performed across four continents, Pablo Vergara has worked and recorded with artists like saxophone legend Gato Barbieri, Claudia Acuña, Ibrahim Maalouf, the Zemlinsky Quartet, Fred Wesley, Bebel Gilberto and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
An active performer in the New York jazz scene, Vergara's piano playing was featured in Claudia Acuña´s "Turning Pages" which was nominated for Best Jazz Album of the Year in the Latin Grammys 2019.
Pablo Vergara composed and produced the score for Alejandro Fernandez Almendras's "To Kill A Man", winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival and Dutch Circle of Film Critics Award at Rotterdam Film Festival. In the last two years, Vergara also composed and produced the original soundtrack for Fernandez Almendras last two films: Chilean box-office hit "My Amigo Alexis" and the French-Czech black and white drama "The Play".
Vergara's performance credits include Newport Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, Washington DC’s Kennedy Center, Istanbul Is Sanat, Paris' Le Zenith, New York's Central Park SummerStage and Australia's Sidney Festival, amongst many others.
John Ellis, Saxophone
If that Dickens chap hadn’t already snagged it, “A Tale of Two Cities” would make the ideal title for the John Ellis story. The gifted, versatile saxophonist/clarinettist/composer occupies an imaginary (and extremely imaginative) space directly between the celebratory, welcoming spirit of New Orleans and the edgy, frantic streets of New York City. That combination is best showcased in Ellis’ eccentric combo Double-Wide, which recently released its third album, Charm, on Ellis’ own Parade Light Records. An ambitious composer, as well as an agile musician, Ellis in recent years, has composed three large-scale narrative pieces commissioned by The Jazz Gallery in collaboration with playwright Andy Bragen. Ellis also maintains an impossibly busy schedule as a first-call sideman. Having established himself as one of New York’s premier tenor saxophonists since his arrival in 1997, he’s since worked with artists as diverse as bass great John Patitucci, organ legend Dr Lonnie Smith, MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenón, the Brooklyn-bred big band led by composer Darcy James Argue, guitar groove master Charlie Hunter, and pop icon Sting. His discography lists more than 100 album credits as a sideman, including acclaimed albums by Zenón, drummer Otis Brown III, pianists Helen Sung and Edward Simon, and blues/gospel/soul trio The Holmes Brothers.
Dan Loomis, Bass
An established creative force on the New York music scene, Dan Loomis is a sought-after player, constant collaborator, and innovative composer. Called “a forceful and creative bass player (Cadence) and “double-teaming you with style and substance,” Loomis has created a stir with his playing and as a bandleader. He performs extensively across the world with his own band, The Dan Loomis Quartet, his collaborative projects, The Wee Trio and Spoke, and as a sideman with diverse ensembles such as the TS Monk Sextet/Tentet, Gary Burton, Vadim Neselovskyi Trio, Wycliffe Gordon, Ernesto Cervini Quartet with Joel Frahm, Laurence Hobgood Trio and the David Bixler Quintet. His work as a sideman has seen him performing in New York’s most prestigious venues including The Blue Note, Jazz Standard, Birdland, and Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Ronen Itzik, Drums
Born in Jerusalem, Israel, Ronen pursued his undergraduate degree at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has since performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls and clubs in the world, such as The Village Vanguard, Carnegie Hall, Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Blue Note (NYC), Bimhuis (Amsterdam), A Train (Berlin), B flat (Berlin), The JazzKeller (Frankfurt), Glenn Miller (Stockholm). He has also performed in numerous festivals around the world, including Red Sea Jazz Festival (Israel), Ear Shot Festival (Seattle), Barranquijazz (Colombia), Brno Jazz Festival (Czech Republic), Vancouver Jazz Festival (Canada), Comblain La Tour Jazz Festival (Belgium) and Universi Jazz (Spain). Since his arrival in the U.S., Ronen has been an active member of numerous collaborations and bands, such as Morning Bound, Vadim Neselovskyi Trio, The Tammy Scheffer Sextet, Josh Deutsch’s Pannonia, Juan Ospina Big Band, The Uri Gurvich Quartet and many more.
