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MARIANO OTERO's biography

MARIANO OTERO

With five albums in different formats under his belt, numerous awards and nominations from the most varied local media and an uninterrupted activity as a composer, arranger and performer, Mariano Otero is one of the key figures of the new jazz in Argentina. He was born in the neighbourhood of Avellaneda in 1976. The son of a musician, he took lessons in piano and guitar and later on in electric bass, double bass and violoncello with some of the most prestigious teachers in Buenos Aires. He studied at the Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda, and afterwards graduated from the Escuela de Música Contemporánea. He won a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston and another one to the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. In New York he took lessons with Scott Colley, Mark Hellias and Drew Gress.
Mariano has appeared throughout the country with his different ensembles: a quintet, a septet, his Big Band and, at present, a sextet with which he’s preparing his latest album. With his quintet he toured New York and Miami and appeared at the Jazz Festival in Punta del Este. He had the honour of being guest artist at Dave Holland’s shows in Buenos Aires.
In 2007, the Jazz Festival of the city of Rosario chose him as composer in residence to work with the students of the local school. In 2008, the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival commissioned him with the composition and orchestration of a repertoire paying tribute to guitarist Walter Malosetti, Mariano’s mentor and teacher, a task for which he set up a nonet. Such work was recorded in an album to be presented in this year’s edition of the Festival. Shortly ago, he was summoned by Sony BMG to produce and arrange singer Iván Noble’s new album. In addition, he recorded the soundtrack for the upcoming film Sangre del Pacífico.

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