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EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
Berklee College of Music – Boston, MA
// Bachelor of Music in Professional Music (currently enrolled, class of 2025)
// Concentrations: Jazz Composition, Performance, Arranging
// Berklee Presidential Scholarship
Berklee Five-Week Summer Program – Boston, MA (2020)
Conservatory of Music Uni-Prep Percussion Ensemble – San Juan, Puerto Rico (2017-2019)
“Escuela Libre de Musica de San Juan, Ernesto Ramos Antonini ” Specialized Combined Music
Middle/High School – San Juan, Puerto Rico (2016-2021)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Student Accompanist, Berklee College of Music – Boston, MA
// Advanced Voice Dept. Accompanist (April 2022-, Advanced role acquired 2023)
// Summer Programs Accompanist (June 2022-): Worked in: Day Sessions: Music, Aspire: Five Week Music Performance Intensive, and Brass Workshop.
// Student Performer (October 2022-)
// Piano Dept. Accompanist (January 2023-August 2024)
Ensemble Accompanist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Cambridge, MA
// Accompanist for the Jazz AMP Ensemble, led by Miguel Zenón (Fall 2023- Fall 2024)
Volunteer for Berklee on The Road Summer Program; “Berklee en Puerto Rico” – San Juan, Puerto Rico (2022)
SKILLS:
Arranging and Composition in genres including: Jazz, Latin, Gospel, Pop, R&B, Fusion
Computer Software: Logic Pro X, Microsoft Office
Instruments:
// Percussion:
PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE:
Leader:
// Sound Soil Stwrds presents: Kayla Arthur & Héctor L. Falu Guzmán (July 2024)
Sideman/Accompanist:
w/ Tom Scott, Joe Lano & Domas Žeromskas – Three Days of Jazz at Vic’s Las Vegas (May 2024)
w/ Domas Žeromskas – Album Release Concert at The Mad Monkfish (April 2024)
Spring Jazz Impressions – presented by Voice Faculty Elena Koleva & Andrea Capozzoli (April 2024-2022)
w/ MIT Wind Ensemble – Jubilees: Featuring Eric Ostling, Elizabeth Klein, Sara Simpson G, and Kathryn Salfelder (March 2024)
w/ Ned Rosenblatt – After-Hours A Capella and Vocal Jazz Showcase: Berklee Advanced Jazz Ensemble at the American Choral Directors Association Western Conference (February 2024)
w/ Domas Žeromskas – Domas Žeromskas Quartet feat. Gregory Groover at Jazz Cellar ’11 in Vilnius, LT (December 2023)
w/ Gregory Tardy – Jazz Up Close with Gregory Tardy Middletown, CT (October 2023)
w/ Gregory Tardy – Gregory Tardy Quartet at Smalls Jazz Club (October 2023)
w/ Jacques Schwarz-Bart – L’OFF Festival de Jazz de Montreal at Le Studio TD in Montreal, QC (October 2023)
w/ Jacques Schwarz-Bart – 52ème Festival Culturel De Fort-de-France (July 2023)
w/Gregory Tardy – Gregory Tardy Quartet at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine (February 2023)
AWARDS/COMPETITIONS:
Undergraduate College Outstanding Performance at DownBeat 47th Annual Student Music Awards (June 2024)
1st Place at National Jazz Festival in Small Combo Category S-2 (2021)
4th Place at National Jazz Festival in Small Combo Category S-2 (2020)
DISCOGRAPHY:
Leader:
// “Understanding Each Other – Live” (Single – March 2023)
Sideman:
w/ Rakel (A.k.a. Rakel Sangara)
// “loving isn’t going anywhere” (Single – September 2024)
w/ Domas Žeromskas
// “Meditations on Providence and Perseverance, Vol. 1” (Album – March 2024)
w/ Ryota Sasaki
// “Otherworldly” (Single – December 2023)
Berklee College of Music – Boston, MA
// Bachelor of Music in Professional Music (currently enrolled, class of 2025)
// Concentrations: Jazz Composition, Performance, Arranging
// Berklee Presidential Scholarship
Berklee Five-Week Summer Program – Boston, MA (2020)
Conservatory of Music Uni-Prep Percussion Ensemble – San Juan, Puerto Rico (2017-2019)
“Escuela Libre de Musica de San Juan, Ernesto Ramos Antonini ” Specialized Combined Music
Middle/High School – San Juan, Puerto Rico (2016-2021)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Student Accompanist, Berklee College of Music – Boston, MA
// Advanced Voice Dept. Accompanist (April 2022-, Advanced role acquired 2023)
// Summer Programs Accompanist (June 2022-): Worked in: Day Sessions: Music, Aspire: Five Week Music Performance Intensive, and Brass Workshop.
// Student Performer (October 2022-)
// Piano Dept. Accompanist (January 2023-August 2024)
Ensemble Accompanist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Cambridge, MA
// Accompanist for the Jazz AMP Ensemble, led by Miguel Zenón (Fall 2023- Fall 2024)
Volunteer for Berklee on The Road Summer Program; “Berklee en Puerto Rico” – San Juan, Puerto Rico (2022)
SKILLS:
Arranging and Composition in genres including: Jazz, Latin, Gospel, Pop, R&B, Fusion
Computer Software: Logic Pro X, Microsoft Office
Instruments:
// Percussion:
- Latin Percussion (Secondary)
- Drum set (Primary)
- Piano (Intermediate-level)
PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE:
Leader:
// Sound Soil Stwrds presents: Kayla Arthur & Héctor L. Falu Guzmán (July 2024)
Sideman/Accompanist:
w/ Tom Scott, Joe Lano & Domas Žeromskas – Three Days of Jazz at Vic’s Las Vegas (May 2024)
w/ Domas Žeromskas – Album Release Concert at The Mad Monkfish (April 2024)
Spring Jazz Impressions – presented by Voice Faculty Elena Koleva & Andrea Capozzoli (April 2024-2022)
w/ MIT Wind Ensemble – Jubilees: Featuring Eric Ostling, Elizabeth Klein, Sara Simpson G, and Kathryn Salfelder (March 2024)
w/ Ned Rosenblatt – After-Hours A Capella and Vocal Jazz Showcase: Berklee Advanced Jazz Ensemble at the American Choral Directors Association Western Conference (February 2024)
w/ Domas Žeromskas – Domas Žeromskas Quartet feat. Gregory Groover at Jazz Cellar ’11 in Vilnius, LT (December 2023)
w/ Gregory Tardy – Jazz Up Close with Gregory Tardy Middletown, CT (October 2023)
w/ Gregory Tardy – Gregory Tardy Quartet at Smalls Jazz Club (October 2023)
w/ Jacques Schwarz-Bart – L’OFF Festival de Jazz de Montreal at Le Studio TD in Montreal, QC (October 2023)
w/ Jacques Schwarz-Bart – 52ème Festival Culturel De Fort-de-France (July 2023)
w/Gregory Tardy – Gregory Tardy Quartet at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine (February 2023)
AWARDS/COMPETITIONS:
Undergraduate College Outstanding Performance at DownBeat 47th Annual Student Music Awards (June 2024)
1st Place at National Jazz Festival in Small Combo Category S-2 (2021)
4th Place at National Jazz Festival in Small Combo Category S-2 (2020)
DISCOGRAPHY:
Leader:
// “Understanding Each Other – Live” (Single – March 2023)
Sideman:
w/ Rakel (A.k.a. Rakel Sangara)
// “loving isn’t going anywhere” (Single – September 2024)
w/ Domas Žeromskas
// “Meditations on Providence and Perseverance, Vol. 1” (Album – March 2024)
w/ Ryota Sasaki
// “Otherworldly” (Single – December 2023)