LATIN JAZZ NIGHT Feat. Alfredo Rodriguez Trio + Harold Lopez Nussa Trio

Ordering Closed

 Featuring:

Harold Lopez-Nussa - Piano 
Ruy Lopez-Nussa - Drums/Percussion 
Alune Wade - Bass/Vocals

Discovered at the 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival by Quincy Jones, Cuban-born Alfredo Rodríguez has rapidly risen to stardom under the tutelage of the famed producer. Since arriving to the US in 2009, Rodríguez has appeared on prestigious stages such as the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Detroit, Umbria and Vienna Jazz Festivals. During his first tour in China, Rodríguez was asked to work with Academy Award winning Chinese Composer, Tan Dun, Grammy® Award winning songwriters Siedah Garrett and Quincy Jones to compose the English-version of the theme song, “Better City, Better Life,” for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. Additionally, he was asked to perform the song at the closing ceremony of the Shanghai International Film Festival, granting him to become the first non-Chinese artist to be bestowed this honor.

HAROLD LÓPEZ-NUSSA was born in Havana, Cuba, on July 13, 1983. At the age of 8, he began his piano studies at the Manuel Saumell Conservatory. In 1995, during his 5th year of basic studies, he went on to study at the Amadeo Roldán Conservatory. Some years later he finished his degree in Classic Piano and graduated at the Higher Institute of Arts (ISA).

During his young career he has performed as soloist at Cuba's most important theatres. He has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra and Matanzas Symphony Orchestra. He has played together with outstanding figures of Cuban traditional music and popular music, as well as with well-known jazz musicians such as Chucho Valdés, David Sánchez, Horacio "El Negro" Hernández, Christian Scott, Stefon Harris, Bobby Carcassés, Elmer Ferrer, Alexander Brown. He was a band member for Omara Portuondo´s international tours from 2008-2011, and also a member of Maraca & The Monterey Latin Jazz All-Stars, a project that brings together excellent jazz musicians.

In 2007 he decided to focus on Jazz and created his own band made up of talented and recognized musicians. 

He has performed at important international venues such as the Olympia Theater and the anthological New Moring in Paris, the Barbican Center in London and the Satin Doll at Bordeux, San Francisco Jazz Festival, Wien Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Marciac Jazz Festival, Oslo World Music Festival, Barcelona Jazz International Festival, Nord Sea Jazz Festival, Martinique Jazz Festival, Verona Jazz Festival, 33rd Conference of International Association for Jazz Educators (IAJE), Enghien Les Bains 1st Piano Festival, OLoron Jazz Festival, Jazz a Viennes, Puebla International Festival, Jazz Standard in New York, Cotton Club in Tokyo among others. 

He has received significant national and international awards. The most relevant one was the First Prize and the Audience Prize of the Solo Piano Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, in July 2005. He also received the “Jazz Talent 2011” granted by the French Music Association (ADAMI). 

His records Sobre el Atelier (2007), Canciones (2008), Herencia (2009) and El país de las maravillas (2011) highlight not only his virtuosity and versatility as an interpreter but also his dimension as a composer and arranger. 

He has been part of relevant record projects such as Ninety Miles (Concord Picante), Esencial (Leo Brouwer), Rhythms del Mundo (Universal Music TV. Artists Project Earth), Ninety Miles (Concord Picante) The Revolution presents REVOLUTION (Rapster Records) and Jazz Cuba Today (Unicornio. Abdala). 

He also composes music for cinema, in this field he received the Award to the Best Original Soundtrack at the 9th New Filmmakers Exhibit for his music in the Cuban documentary “Salvador de Cojimar” by director Ernesto Sánchez. Other titles in his assets are: “Fábula” by director Lester Hamlet, animation short movie “20 años” by director Bárbaro Joel Ortiz and “El Camino de las Gaviotas”, animation short movie co-produced between Cuba and Brasil. 

October 2013 saw Harold release his latest major recording project for Harmonia Mundi titled