Emilio Solla (piano) Born in Mendoza, Argentina. He studied piano at the National Conservatory of Music in Buenos Aires, where he got a degree in Piano. He continued his theoretical studies with some of Argentina’s most prestigious professors. He attended workshops given by well known artists such as Greg Hopkins, Ensamble Modern, Michel Petrucciani and Lyle Mays. From 1983 to 1994, Solla participated intensively in the new Argentinean music scene, building a reputation as a composer to fuse the modern tendencies of Argentinean folk ,tango with jazz; a musical stream in which he is considered nowadays one of the most representative artists. Once in Spain, where he moved in 1996, he continued to study conducting with Miquel Ortega and composition with Gabriel Brncic. His wide and eclectic musical influences have allowed him to move naturally in extremely different musical contexts. He was guest pianist with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the Edimburgh International Festival 1997, the conductor of Bernstein’s West Side Story and toured Japan with the “quena” player Jorge Cumbo. He first presented his nonet Emilio Solla y La Orquestable for the 31st edition of Barcelona Jazz Festival 1999, performing his Suite Piazzollana, later recorded and released by Fresh Sounds. He has been a lecturer on Composition at Gotemburg School of Music (Sweden), Bates College( USA), the Jazz & Pop Conservatory (Finland). In 2005 he played for the first time in NYC and other cities in the USA, both with his own group and as side man to Pablo Aslan’s Avantango.
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