About Me
Adrián Alvarado was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in December 16th 1968.started playing the guitar and the galician bagpipe(!) at the age of nine. Studied jazz guitar with Aldo Jr., Harmony, Counterpoint and Aesthetics with Ricardo Rizek, and Jazz harmony with Hilton Valente. Moved to Spain in 1989. Since then, trying to find out an harmonic blend between Flamenco, Jazz and of course Brazilian Music. In Madrid he was an active member of the late "Samambaia", a project of instrumental brazilian music leade by Gil Windsor and Carlinhos Antunes. In 1996 he moved to Berlin, where he composes for film, theater and some spots. Worked quite a lot comping flamenco dance and stuff, jamming with the friends (Tom Auffarth, Merly Donoso, Oliver Saar, Ulrich Gottwald, Carmen Fernandez, Ferenc Snétberger, among many others...) and developing this different texture, now almost ready for its release... Concerts in Holland, Japan, Indonesia, France, Poland, Brazil, and so on. Since 2001 he is back in Madrid. Has collaborated with Sasha Sokol, Monica Molina and Pastora Soler. Several dance companies with Javier Coble, Antón Jiménez, Pablo Maldonado... Now composing, teaching and performing in Madrid. In 2005 participates of the Mediterranean Orchestra in sao Paulo orgainized by Carlos Antunes, Livio Tragtemberg and Magda Pucci with amazing musicians such as: Paolo Angeli , Petros Tabouris, Abdel Aziz Arradi (Morocco), Pascal Leféuvre, Sami Bordokan, Claudio Kairouz, Eric Montbel, Xavi Lozano, Muammer Ketencoglu, Dante Yenque, João Parahyba, Giorgio Rizzo, Florian Cristea, among others. A nice work with the brazilian singer Pedro Moreno, alongside with the percussionist Carlos Mancuzo and the bassist Bruno Lopes. And the recordings you can hear in this site were made with Selina, a very good spanish singer of Cordoba.
