Xiomara Laugart & Axel Tosca Laugart with the Criterions Jazz Ensemble and Chamber Strings
Friday, March 22, 2019 Madeleine Wing Adler Theatre Performing Arts Center 7:30 PM
PROGRAM
Selections by Xiomara Laugart and Axel Tosca Laugart
The Criterions Jazz Ensemble Las Perlas Tu Boca ............................................................................. Elisio Grenet Sanchez La Mentira ...............................................................................................................Javier Solis Rompe El Cuero ................................................................................................. Yerba Buena Un Amor Asi ................................................................................................ Luis Emilio Rios Arrangements by Jonathan Ragonese
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ARTIST PROFILES Xiomara Laugart is a Cuban singer based in New York City. Originally from the Guantanamo province of Cuba, Xiomara began her career at the age of 15, performing both traditional and contemporary Cuban music. In the 1980's she was the recipient of many awards and began traveling the world. After recording many albums under her own name in Cuba she moved to Rome and then New York City. She has worked closely with the greatest composers of Cuban song, and performs and records regularly with a wide array of the world's most celebrated Afro-Latin musicians. Xiomara was a member of Yerba Buena and was the star in the Broadway musical Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz. She performs extensively in New York and internationally. Cuban born Axel Tosca Laugart is one of the most dynamic young pianists on the scene. Laugart's family influenced his musical interests at an early age. Both his father and stepfather were musicians and his father's guitar playing sparked an early interest in the instrument. He began playing guitar around the age of four and piano at the age of seven, accompanying his parents. Laugart benefitted from a wide range of musical experiences growing up in Cuba. Dennis & Swing was a group that Laugart credits for "giving me the real timba groove." Laugart also played with the Afro Cuban All Stars, Teresa Garcia Caturla, Sexteto Sendito, Jose Miguel Crego (known as “El Greco”), and a Latin Jazz group called the Bobby Carcases Group, where Laugart says "I learned a lot about the language of music." Laugart was also part of the Hip-Hop scene in Cuba and had the opportunity to play with The Roots while they were in Cuba. Now based in New York, Laugart continues to grow musically. Of his future, he says "my goal is to just keep upgrading my talent and my soul. I love the world."
The Criterions Jazz Ensemble SAXOPHONE:
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RHYTHM:
Devon Rickert
Zach Prowse
David Lewis
Anthony Saddic - Piano
Brian Foster
Tony Bennici
Michael Kaplan
James Byrne - Guitar
Marley Bryan
Andrew Walls
Donovan Donnelly
Tim Ragsdale - Bass
Stephen Lang
Nolan Wible
Alex Marshall
Nathan Gittelman – Drums
Andrew Morrison
Omar Mendoza – Percussion
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