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Serghio Jansen born on 3 september 1987 ,is a young, talented and skillful emerging guitarist, characterized by his deep and soulful interpretation of music. Serghio, 20, is currently attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachussets where he is studying with with David Gilmore .In 2007 he has played in some big International events such as Caribbeanseajazz festival in 2007 with his quintet,other artists that played on the same stage was “ Michel Camilo,Dafnis Prieto,Randal Corsen†and more . .He also played at the Naguanaguajazz festival 2007 in Valencia,Venezuela with some of their best musicians,he played at Bonaire Jazz festival 2007 . Playing with Gerardo Rosales at one of the festival events.
Some other highlights of his summer 2007 was : He got the “Jazzsummerschool workshop“ in Rotterdam,Netherlands,a workshop that only accepted 50 participants worldwide and played in several venues in Rotterdam.
He played 2 of the Biggest Shows in Aruba that year : Aruba Model Search finals in the Entertainment center with a audience of more then 15000 people. Also he has opened up as a guest artist for the show “Sparkling tour†which is the “American Idol†of Aruba when he was 17
He has done some amazing things at Berklee college of music as well : Giving a clinic about Rhythms from the Caribbean playing music from his paradise island of Aruba and applying it to contemporary jazz,latin,funk,fusion etc during Latin Celebration week ,this was in his second semester.
He has just been selected as one of the few guitarists to play at the biggest Guitar Event at Berklee college of music called ‘Guitar night “ in the Berklee performance Center .
Serghio,at age 13 picked up the guitar and never loooked back. In seven years of playing, he has reached a high level of technique, sophistication, knowledge and maturity.Known for his versatility playing many styles , raised on the island of Aruba Serghio was exposed to many different exotic rhytms and musical concepts that interested him allot so he explored them which is helping him find his own voice and connect deeper to the Music .
He has played in many different band settings, from his Jazz ensemble,latinjazz ensemble,progressive fusion band to more commercial music Rockbands,reggaebands etcetc. He was blessed with private classes from Ivan Jansen – his father-, a Berklee graduate and multi-faceted and versatile jazz and classical guitarist with 4 CD productions and international concerts to his name.
Before Serghio left Aruba to study at Berklee he was already performing with most of the professionals on the island .
Serghio has played in various professional concerts, amongst others, with Oscar Stagnaro(paquito d'rivera,caribbeanjazzproject) EDISON Jazz Award winner 2004 Randal Corsen (EDISON Jazz award is the most prestigious award in the Netherlands. Gerardo Rosales,Carmelo Medina + Cesar Orozco from the Venezuelan superband Guaco ,he sat in with the Yuri honing trio ,Annette aguilar ,Roger Peterson from Intwine and more .
At a Berklee workshop in Puerto rico in 2005 Berklee College of Music awarded Serghio with an Outstanding Musicianship award (1 in 5 of 125 participants) and a partial scholarship for four years.