Rodrigo Faina is a composer and bandleader whose music often transcends conventional and outdated genre distinctions. An alchemist, able to blend the techniques of new music and the traditions of jazz ...

Some of my teachers: Mario Conde, Nelson Farias, Fábio Leal, Fábio Gouveia, André Marques and Alain Caron. Some of my influences: Hermeto Pascoal, Pat Martino, Airto Moreira, Charlie Parker, Heraldo ...

He was about to graduate from high school and he was enamored with the music of Joaquin Rodrigo, an underappreciated Spanish composer whose works, grounded in the classical style yet full of ...

Donald Macleod explores the life of Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo. The Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo is responsible for one of the most instantly recognisable works for classical guitar - if not ...

Several mid-20th-century composers, though prolific, are remembered mostly for a single piece of music. Think of Carl Orff and his “Carmina Burana” or Ferde Grofé’s “Grand Canyon Suite.” And, ...