Pablo Cárdenas presents “A Música de Jobim”

Event Description

World class Cuban pianist Pablo Cardenas is bringing you a night dedicated to Antonio Carlos Jobim, as he usually does with other styles, he will be performing some of Jobim’s best bossa novas and sambas in a unique way, adding different influences to Jobim’s compositions like latin jazz, Afro Cuban rhythms, contemporary jazz, fusion. Pablo will be accompanied by an all stars line up of musicians from different nationalities and artistic background to add a special flavour to the music, and featuring the outstanding vocal interpretations of his special guests.

Pablo Cardenas is a Cuban Jazz pianist, composer, music educator and arranger with different influences like Afro-Cuban, Latin jazz, jazz fusion, modern jazz, classical and more. He studied classical performance at the Superior Institute of Arts in Havana, Cuba. Since the 2000s he has been performing in music festivals in Havana and internationally. He has been residing in Canada since 2011 where he created different music projects as The West Coast Cuban Orchestra, highly contributing for the development of the Afro-Cuban music and jazz scene in the area, performing at the most important venues and festivals around, and collaborating with many accomplished musicians like Canadian treasures Dee Daniels and Denzal Sinclair. Pablo has been also collaborating with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra in the last years.