Fernando Otero
| Fernando Otero | |
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Fernando Otero performing, 2012
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Fernando Martin Otero |
| Born |
1 May 1972 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Genres | Classical, contemporary classical, tango, Latin jazz, jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, pianist, vocalist |
| Instruments | Piano, vocals, melodica, accordion, bass, percussion |
| Labels | Warner Bros. Nonesuch Harmonia Mundi |
| Website | www |
Fernando Otero (born 1 May 1972) is a Grammy-Award Winning Argentine composer, pianist and vocalist currently residing in New York City. His first contact with music was receiving vocal lessons from his mother Elsa Marval, an internationally acclaimed singer and actress. He started taking piano lessons at five. He also studied the guitar, drums, accordion, and melodica, instruments he plays occasionally. A classically trained and virtuoso pianist, Otero studied classical music since childhood. He has since developed his own style which has elements of jazz,tango, and contemporary classical music.
Otero found his voice as writer, musician and bandleader when, at the urging of one of his music teachers, he began to incorporate the indigenous sounds of his native Buenos Aires into his work, as he did in his Nonesuch debut Pagina de Buenos Aires in 2008. He has been described by many critics as a classically trained virtuoso pianist and composer who developed his own style by blending elements of classical contemporary music and improvisation while acknowledging Tango as a starting point. Shortly after moving to the US in the 1990s, he worked with correspondingly diverse collaborators including Paquito D'Rivera, the Kronos Quartet, Quincy Jones, one-time Bill Evans sideman Eddie Gómez, flautist Dave Valentin and pianist/film composer Dave Grusin, among others, and he sat in with Arturo O'Farrill’s Jazz Orchestra a Symphony Space, Lincoln Center and during their Sunday night residency at New York City’s Birdland, performing his compositions with this large jazz ensemble also at Lincoln Center and Symphony Space. He also performed with clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera on stage, at Birdland, Blue Note, the Caramoor Festival and in the recording studio. He joined the Paquito D'Rivera Quintet for the recording of Funk Tango, which includes Otero's composition Milonga 10 . With Funk Tango, The Paquito D'Rivera Quintet received in 2008 the Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.
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