A 100% Cuban Night is a must this season! In La Habana, Cosette and guest artists Mayquel and Yaroldy were students together. She is very proud to feature the incredible talent of these jazz players, who have performed all around the world. Get ready to move and feel the heat!
CONDUCTOR: Cosette Justo Valdés
GUEST ARTISTS:
Mayquel González
Trumpet
Yaroldy Abreu
Cuban Percussion
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Mayquel González is a professional musician, trumpet player, musical composer, teacher and arranger. His main objective is the
development of his interesting and unrepeatable proposal, where he combines the different cultural influences of Cuba and the rest of the world.
He is currently a member of The National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and the Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE), and continues working as a trumpet teacher at the Higher Art Institute. He is also currently playing with the reknown Cuban salsa player Isaac Delgado.
In 2019 he won the Cubadisco Music award, in the modality of opera prima for his phonogram Tiempos de paz, a project that launched his career as an independent artist.
Yaroldy Abreu Robles is one of the most prominent percussionists of his generation in Cuba, who has dedicated his career to interpreting Latin jazz and afro Cuban jazz. He graduated from the Institute Superior of Arts in La Habana, Cuba in 2001. Since then, he has developed a very intense professional career as a member of the experimental percussion group Pi-a-pá, the Cinco Puntos ensemble, Maraca & Otra Visión, Irakere and Chucho Valdés Jazz Quartet and Chucho Valdés & The Afro-Cuban Messengers.
Yaroldy has recorded several albums and toured around the world, participating in the most important jazz festivals. In 1997 he won the first award in the VI National Percussion Competition (in the specialty of Cuban Percussion), during the VIII PerCuba International Festival.
He also performed and recorded on the album New Conceptions, with the Chucho Valdés Jazz Quartet, which won the 2004 Latin Grammy Award in the category of Latin Jazz.
Yaroldy is Professor of Cuban Percussion at the Institute Superior of Arts in La Habana and offers workshops and masterclasses in universities and conservatories around the world.
He has performed and recorded with Winton Marsalis, Monique Seka, and others.
