Biography

Drummer and composer Hernán Mandelman was born in Buenos Aires in 1972. Since the ‘90s, he has played in different local bands. Among them, the Summer Quartet led by Guillermo Bazzola and the quintet led by Juan Cruz de Urquiza, completed by Ernesto Jodos, Hernán Merlo and Rodrigo Domínguez. He has also collaborated in musical projects with Carlos Lastra, Ricardo Cavalli, Enrique Norris, Luis Nacht and Pepi Taveira, among others. In 2000, he moved to Brazil, where he had the opportunity to come in contact with musicians from the international scene. He has performed with Brazilian guitarist Chico Pinheiro, French saxophonist Oliver Temine, German guitarist Tolster de Winkell and Italian musician Enzo Rocco, among many others. Back in Buenos Aires, he recorded Amistad (BlueArt) in 2006, together with Natalio Sued, Rodrigo Domínguez and French Franck Oberson. He currently leads his own quintet made up of Paula Shocron (piano), Ezequiel Dutil (double bass), Natalio Sued (sax) and Rodrigo Domínguez (clarinet), with which he recorded Detrás de esa puerta (Sofa), his first album as a leader. The new record, which he will present at this edition of the Buenos Aires Jazz, features his own original compositions in an attempt to find the perfect balance between simple and complex, tradition and vanguard, rhythmic force and lyricism.