The End of a love affair:
Martin Buergi, sax. Victor Prieto, accordion. Dave Samuels, vibes. Felix Utzinger, guitar. Daniele Camarda, bass. Ferenc Nemeth, drums.
Emilio Solla and NY Tango at Smalls NY 2007
Emilio Solla, piano. Chris Cheek, sax. Donny McCaslin, sax. Pablo Aslan, bass and Jeff Ballard, drums.
Influences
Galician music, Celtic music, Joanne Brackeen, Keith Jarrett Carlo DeRosa, Chick Corea, Emilio Solla, Pablo Aslan, Brad Mehldau, Duke, Ellington, Herbie Hancock Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Astor Piazzola, Frank Marocco, Richard Galliano, Bach, Scriabin, Hermeto Pascual, Endless.....all the musicians I have been playing with or listened to. The biggets influences on my playing, have been pianists and saxophonists.
Victor Prieto Trio at the Williamsburg Jazz Festival 2004
Accordionist and composer, Victor Prieto is revolutionizing the way that the accordion is played by creating new sounds and techniques for this instrument. His music embraces different tendencies that come from Jazz, Tango, Classical and Celtic Roots enriched with new rhythms and colors. He is the creator of a new technique for the accordion called “chord approach on both hands”, which creates rich and elaborate harmonies.
Victor Prieto was born in Orense (Spain) in 1975. At the age of nine encouraged by his mother Victor begun to play the accordion. He pursued his studies in Classical accordion at the Orense Conservatory (Spain), while taking harmony, arranging and improvisation classes at Estudio Escola de Musica (Santiago de Compostela, Spain). After receiving a scholarship by the highly respected Jazz school- Berklee College of Music- Victor decided to pursue the performance major under the direction of Joanne Brackeen. Victor is the first and only of his kind, to specialize and apply studies in Accordion at Berklee College of Music. During his stay at Berklee Victor becomes friends with one of his mentors, Oscar Stagnaro.
In 2002 Victor moved to New York where he quickly established himself as one of the most prolific and versatile accordionists on the music and Jazz scenes. As a leader Victor has performed at many prestigious venues and events such as Berklee Performance Center, Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Blue Note NY, New Jersey Performance Art Center, Three Rivers Musical Festival, Williamsburg Jazz Festival, Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center.
Victor has shared the stage with Yo-Yo Ma, Jeff Ballard, Chris Cheek, Paquito D’Rivera, Donny McCaslin, Lionel Louke among others and is involved in projects such as Pablo Aslan’s Avantango, Emilio Solla’s NY Jazz Tango Project, Alexis Cuadrado’s Trio Iberico and Fernando Otero X Tango.
He teaches Master Classes in Spain, Italy, Portugal, USA and has headed the jazz accordion studies at the Brooklyn Conservatory (2003 – 2004). He is a recipient of numerous awards and prizes for excellence in accordion performance and composition, among them are: the Creative Performer award from the Spanish Association of Artists and Performers, and the first prize at CMZK’s Concourse of Composition (Argentina).
Victor now lives in New York City dividing his time between performing, teaching and recording. He has recently introduced his third recording, "Chris Cheek and V. Prieto. Rollo-Coaster.", Cheekus Music.
New York, 2009
New DVD, Chris Cheek and Victor Prieto
"Live at Penelope Street" New York 2008
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Bonjour à tous , j'ai la chance d'avoir été remarquée sur scène par le producteur de la Tournée des Zéniths,je fais donc partie de cette tournée 2009/2010 ,17 Galas dans toute la France,et j'ai la chance de partager le plateau avec: André Verchuren/Yvette Horner/Louis Corchia
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hi, I am glad to announce the release of my debut CD called "Interro Island". This is my first solo project, which includes original tunes composed and arranged by me. I hope you will enjoy my work!
Hello how are ya? it's been awhile, hope everything's well. When you get a little time, stop by & check out some changes/additions to my page. New tunes, Story I wrote "Elo-Kin" Sign my guest book or Just say HELLO:-) Wishing you the best! Peace
great to meet you at vivaldi last week. looks like we're already friends here! check out my music, hopefully we can collaborate sometime soon. i'll be at vivaldi next week. cheers!
Quand un quatuor classique s'enflamme sur un rythme à 5 temps, porté par un quartet de jazz et des tambours de l'Afrique et des Antilles, notre sale histoire commune liée par les chaînes de l'esclavage s'écrase devant l'évidence que l'humanité respire et gronde dans l'altérité.
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