Biography

Ezequiel Dutil's biography

Ezequiel Dutil was born in La Plata in 1979. He took his first lessons on the electric bass with Fernando Di Pietro and in 1998 entered the Berklee College of Music in Buenos Aires, where he studied with Ernesto Jodos, Marcelo Braga, Marcelo Gutfraind and Fernando Martínez, among others. A year later, he began studying double bass with Hernán Merlo and took lessons in classical double bass with Luis Taurielo (form the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Teatro Colón). He studied harmony with Pepe Angelillo and Lapo Gessaghi. Ezequiel Dutil has shared the stage with renowned figures of the local and national scene, and participated in several festivals, including the Buenos Aires Jazz and the Jazz Festivals of the cities of Campana and El Bolsón. He is a member of Adrián Iaies’s trio, with which he recorded Esa sonrisa es un santo remedio (20 Misas Records, 2009), and has toured many countries in Europe and Latin America alongside Walter Malosetti’s trio, and the ensembles of Andrés Beeuwsaert, Manuel Ochoa, Colombian pianist Nicolás Ospina and several other bands.