The exceptional trumpetist Maykel Gonzalez is right now one of the leaders in the trumpet in Cuba. At the concert today, you will have the opportunity to hear the most beautiful Cuban styles: Cha-cha-cha, Bolero and Descarga (Cuban jam).

Mayquel Gonzalez (Trumpet)
Born in Artemisa, Cuba, Mayquel Gonzalez is a Cuban trumpet player, composer and arranger, also professor at the Higher Institute of Arts. Since his early childhood, he felt the
call of music. “Its in my blood”, he confesses. Graduated from Havana’s Higher Institute of Art in 2005, he has performed at the bands of most of the greatest contemporaneous Cuban musicians, such as Chucho Valdes (Irakere), Ernan Lopez-Nussa(Havana Report), Harold Lopez-Nussa(Quartet) and Pablo Milanes. With them he has performed at Cubadisco closing Ceremonies and Jazz Plaza Festival (Cuba); at the Marciac Festival (France), Toronto and Montreal Jazz Festivals, EnjoyJazz Festival (Germany) and Barranqui Jazz Festiv...

The exceptional trumpetist Maykel Gonzalez is right now one of the leaders in the trumpet in Cuba. At the concert today, you will have the opportunity to hear the most beautiful Cuban styles: Cha-cha-cha, Bolero and Descarga (Cuban jam).

Mayquel Gonzalez (Trumpet)
Born in Artemisa, Cuba, Mayquel Gonzalez is a Cuban trumpet player, composer and arranger, also professor at the Higher Institute of Arts. Since his early childhood, he felt the
call of music. “Its in my blood”, he confesses. Graduated from Havana’s Higher Institute of Art in 2005, he has performed at the bands of most of the greatest contemporaneous Cuban musicians, such as Chucho Valdes (Irakere), Ernan Lopez-Nussa(Havana Report), Harold Lopez-Nussa(Quartet) and Pablo Milanes. With them he has performed at Cubadisco closing Ceremonies and Jazz Plaza Festival (Cuba); at the Marciac Festival (France), Toronto and Montreal Jazz Festivals, EnjoyJazz Festival (Germany) and Barranqui Jazz Festival (Colombia), Northy Jazz Festival. Also, in the renowned jazz clubs Ronnie Scott in London and Blue Note in Tokyo. Between 2008 and 2016 he performed at Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba musical shows Vida, Amigas, and Cuba Vibra,in Cuba, Martinique, Qatar, Germany, Holland, China, United States and other countries. Also in 2008 took part in the recording and filming of Fernando Trueba’s movie Chico y Rita. In 2009 he performed at Colombian salsa singer Yuri Buenaventura’s concert Season through Europe, America and Africa. In 2022 he became part of the renown Cuban salsa player Isaac Delgado’s band. He was awarded at 2002 JoJazz Festival in Havana, and received the Opera Prima Award at
Cubadisco Music Festival, in 2019, for his phonogram Tiempos de paz.

Yasser Pino (Bass, Guitar & Vocal)
Born in Havana in 1976, resides today in Copenhagen, Denmark. Pino is graduated as concertist and classical guitar teacher from the Conservatory “Amadeo Roldan” in Havana in
1995, he is also graduated as contrabass player and teacher from the Rhythmic Conservatory of Copenhagen in 2006. In Cuba Pino worked as a bass player with bands such as Aries, Natura, Gerardo Alfonso , Raul Torres, Polito Ibañez , Chucho Valdes Jr, Roberto Fonseca & “Temperamento”, Denis y su Swing, Rojitas y su Orquesta. Currently, he is a very busy musician who collaborates in multiples projects and bands, playing and recording extensively with renamed musicians such as: Morten Grønvad, Simon Spang-Hanssen, Jonas Johansen, Steen Rasmussen, Jakob Dinesen, Calixto Oviedo, Eliel Lazo, Alexander Abreu, Ernesto Manuitt, Selene Muñoz, Carlos Perez, Afrocuban All Stars, Cubanismo, Harold Lopez-Nussa Trio, Abel Marcel, Dafnis Prieto, among others great musicians. He also teaches contrabass, electric bass, guitar and ensemble. With the released album ‘NATURA’ by his Latin Jazz project ‘The Latin Syndicate’, Yasser has fomented his mark as one of the most solid musicians of his generation.

Elvio Bravo (Vocal & Guitar)
Born and raised in Colombia and has, as an obvious natural talent, played music and sang since he was 5 years old. At the age of 19, he won, as the first guitarist, the national
Colombian competition in the genre “Trio”. Here in Denmark, Elvio has been a member of one of Denmark’s leading salsa orchestras “SalsaNa ́Ma” for 15 years, both as singer and composer. He performs as a soloist with e.g. University of Southern Denmark Symphony orchestra and the conductor Saul Zaks, and in various constellations within both jazz, tango, Spanish folk music and other Latin American genres....

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