Biography

Composer Daniel Camelo was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied guitar in Buenos Aires. In 1994, he moved to the United States to study composition at Berklee, Boston, where he graduated as an arranger and composer in 1996. Since then, he has directed and written music for different ensembles. He has played with Daniel “Pipi” Piazzolla, Richard Nant, Guillermo Klein, Juan Cruz de Urquiza, Víctor Skorupski, Juan Pablo di Leone, Daniel Kovacich, Alejandro Demogli, Oli Bott, Gustavo Musso, Damián Fogiel, Martín Pantyrer, Cirilo Fernández, Juan “Pollo” Raffo, Nicolás Sorín and Mariano Sívori. Daniel Camelo & Inmigrantes Big Band was founded in 2006 to play a repertoire of original pieces with a sound that blends jazz, Argentine folk and urban music from Uruguay. The group is about to release Puertos, their first album. The ensemble, led by Camelo, is composed of Juan Pablo di Leone (flute), Sebastián Mazzalupo, Daniel Kovacich and Víctor Skorupski (clarinets, saxes and flutes), Gustavo Musso (sax and clarinet), Damián Fogiel (sax and flute), Martín Pantyrer (sax, clarinet and bass clarinet), Jorge Fleitas (trumpet), Alejandro Martín, Sergio Wagner and Santiago Constanza (trumpets), Joaquín De Francisco, Matías Trut e Iván Barrios (trombones), Alan Plachta (guitar), Esteban Sehinkman (piano), Gonzalo Fuertes (bass) and Tomás Babjaczuk (drums).