vana (pianist Vana Gierig)
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news... Vana has finished recording his new CD, to be released in 2012. Paquito D’Rivera recorded 4 songs with Vana's group.
> After
starting
2012
with
his
trio at
the Santiago
Jazz Festival in
Chile,
Vana's
group will
be
joined
again
in
March
by
9-time
Grammy
Award
winner Paquito
D'Rivera at
the Burghausen
Jazz Festival in Germany,
as well as at Porgy & Bess in Vienna, Austria (details
see concerts).
>
In March, Vana was a guest pianist for 3 nights at Jazz
at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall with
Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.>
Vana and special guest Paquito D’Rivera on Spanish TV who came
to soundcheck in February at their 365 Jazz Bilbao Festival appearance.
Vana's
group with Paquito D'Rivera at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Holland
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"Vana Gierig and Vinicius Barros prove the diversity of the piano trio." Augsburger Allgemeine, Germany, Jan. '09 (Birdland concert review) "...as everything that was brought to the ear tonight, the encore was indescribable." |
>Mexico
City: Vana
Trio,
joined by specila guest, Paquito
d'Rivera, for
a concert at Sala
Nezahualcóyotl
(UNAM), Mexico
City..
Vana
Trio, Ivrea Jazz Festival, Italy (with Marcus
McLaurine, bass, and Alvester Garnett, drums)
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