Harold López-Nussa Woos French Jazz Fans

An influential French magazine gave him rave reviews and he was elected Jazz Talent 2011 in April, but the young Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa still feels far from famous.

France has given me more international visibility, but I think I´m in a beginning stage in my career, said the youngest of the jazz musicians in a country teeming with top-flight pianists, in an exclusive to Prensa Latina in Paris.

The award, which was granted by the Adami, the French association of music similar to the SGAE in Spain, has allowed the lad from the López-Nussa clan to perform at numerous festivals and clubs in Europe.

Together with my trio (comprising also his brother Ruy Adrian Lopez Nussa on drums, and Felipe Cabrera on bass) on Sunday, I am performing at the Paris-Parc Floral Jazz Festival, Vincennes and then in the event Juan -les-Pins, he said.

After the encouraging experiences also in Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Norway and Holland, he will return to Cuba to accompany the diva of the Buena Vista Social Club, Omara Portuondo, Aug. 17, with whom he worked last year.

He will take advantage of his stay in Havana to end the soundtrack of the film Fabula, by Lester Hamlet. Then he goes to Colombia for another Jazz Festival in September and the end of that month, a small tour of Cuba.

A nephew of Hernan Lopez Nussa, one of the great jazz pianists on the Caribbean island, the promising musician told Prensa Latina that although he is satisfied with the progress experienced, he needs to learn much more.

Classically trained, which began in the Havana Manuel Saumell Conservatory, followed by the Amadeo Roldán and it ended at the Instituto Superior de Arte de Cuba, but he admitted he needs time to enrich his knowledge.

I cannot miss the opportunities that are presented, like having been among the collaborators of the Puerto Rican, David Sánchez, a saxophonist trained in the US, who taught me a lot, he said.

Before leaving Cuba, the 28 year old keyboardist for has a portfolio of other commitments to play in France, Marciac and Avignon, and Italy and Germany.

Source: Cubarte

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