Biography

Pepi Taveira Quinteto's biography

Special guest: LUIS AGUDO
Pepi Taveira was born in Buenos Aires in 1960. A drummer, percussionist and composer of a vast career as a performer and teacher, he graduated with honours from the Berklee College of Music (Boston). In 1994 he won a scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied for a semester and later devoted to the study of African music at the Fareta School of African Dance and Drumming in New York. He toured Europe, the United States and Latin America with artists such as Clark Terry, Danilo Pérez, Frank Carlberg, Ben Street and Olga Román, among others. He has performed and recorded with many of the greatest local artists, including Walter and Javier Malosetti, Ernesto Jodos, Mariano Otero, Luis Nacht and Carlos Lastra. At present, in addition to leading his own band with which he recorded three albums (Dahomey dance, Bs. As. Inferno and Reunión), he plays the drums in Adrián Iaies’s trio, recording three albums and touring Europe and Latin America on several occasions. He was commissioned by the 2008 edition of the Festival to write, together with Enrique Norris, a piece for ballet and jazz band which was presented to great acclaim. The band that will be accompanying Taveira in this edition of the Festival, enhanced by the presence of percussionist Luis Agudo, guitarist Ramiro Penovi, dancer Laura Zapata and the forever passionate and amazing contribution of saxophonist Pablo Puntoriero, is undoubtedly one of the most energetic and fascinating ensembles to be found today in Buenos Aires.
The great percussionist Luis Agudo has performed in more than twenty countries with Dizzy Gillespie, Bill Evans, Luther Allison, Philly Jo Jones, Steve Grossman, Glen Ferris, Sonny Taylor, among many others. In 1984 he released the great Afrosamba and in 1990 formed a duo with Italian pianist Franco D’Andrea and recorded together Enronsadira. From 1991 to 1998, he lived in Chile where he’s got the chance to deepen his studies on Latin American rhythms. Since 1998 he moved to Italy where he continues with his musical activity.

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