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Aurelien Budynek

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About Me

Now offering lessons via webcam through MusicVirtuosity.com
SHORT
Born and raised in Bordeaux, France, Aurélien moved to Boston, MA in 2002 to study under scholarship at Berklee College of Music. Upon graduation and several awards from the school, he moved to New York City in 2006 where he is now based as an active sideman, session player, and teacher.
Equally at ease in Rock, Jazz, Fusion, and World music, Aurélien has shared the stage with Angus Clark (Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Jamey Haddad (Paul Simon), Kudisan Kai (Elton John), and Alain Mallet (Paul Simon) in prestigious venues such as The Blue Note (NYC), The Knitting Factory, and The Bitter End. He has been featured in major festivals around the country such as the NYC Fretless Guitar Fest, the Syracuse Jazz Fest, and the Detroit Jazz Fest.
Aurélien’s debut album as the leader of prog-rock/fusion band ALKEMY was released in 2004 and distributed worldwide by Unicorn Records Canada. The album, “Da 63 Projekt”, which he also wrote and produced, received critical acclaim around the world.
Aurélien is quickly gaining recognition in the musical community. His solo guitar arrangement of “The Flintstones” was featured in the August 2007 issue of Just Jazz Guitar Magazine and he is also a faculty member at the National Guitar Workshop.
He is currently touring with pop/fusion outfit Stratospheerius, as well as playing regularly with several local NYC acts. He is working on a trio CD due out this year and a follow up to ALKEMY's debut album "da 63 projekt".
LESS SHORT
Aurelien Budynek plays guitar and writes music, mostly in smaller ensembles and regardless of genre, style or feel. It's just music after all. An active New York City performer, session musician and teacher, he has played in venues such as the Blue Note, the Knitting Factory, the Bitter End, Rockwood Music Hall and all over the Northeast at the Berklee Performance Center (Boston), Middle East Downstairs (Boston)...
Aurelien was also featured in many major festivals around the country (NYC Fretless Guitar Festival, Detroit Jazz Fest, Syrcause Jazz Fest...).
He has released one album as a leader in 2004 with prog-rock/fusion band aLkemy, distributed worldwide by Unicorn Records Canada.
He is a member of the faculty at the National Guitar Workshop.
Aurelien was born and raised in Bordeaux, France in 1983 and started studying the guitar at age 9.
He studied at Bordeaux's CIAM, while touring with aLkemy with sold out performances at Moliere Theater, Barbey Theater (Bordeaux) and the Zenith Arena (Pau). aLkemy's debut album "da 63 projekt" was ranked at number 3 in the april 2004 issue of "Jazzwise"'s monthly charts, the UK's most read jazz magazine.
He moved to Boston, MA in 2002 to study at Berklee College of Music with guitar mentors such as David "Fuze" Fiuczynski, Chris Buono, Mick Goodrick, Jon Finn, Bruce Bartlett and in high level ensembles with Dave Samuels, Alain Mallet, Jamey Haddad, Bret Willmott...
He graduated in December 2005 and then moved to New York City in February 2006 to continue his carreer as a professional performer.
- Performed with Angus Clark (Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Alain Mallet (Paul Simon, Madeleine Peyroux, Paquito D'Rivera), Jay Ashby (Paul Simon, Phil Woods), Kudisan Kai (Elton John, Sting, Chaka Khan), Ilona Knopfler, Jamey Haddad (Paul Simon, Joe Lovano, Rabih Abou Khalil), David Fiuczynski, Jeff Ramsey (Al Jarreau, Celine Dion) Sean Jones, Paul Thompson (Maynard Fergusson), Joe Deninzon (TSO, Stratospheerius), Francois Moutin (Moutin Reunion Quartet, Simon Shaheen, Nguyen Le), Marco Panascia (Joe Lovano, Herbie Hancock), Marko Marcinko (Dave Liebman), James Williams (Gary Burton), Steve Jenkins (Vernon Reid, KiF), Jon Price (Van Davis)...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/5/2006
Band Website: aurelienbudynek.com
Influences: Bjork, Paul McCartney, Goldie, Nate Leath, Andres Rot, Marcelo Woloski, David Fiuczynski, Wayne Krantz
Record Label: aLkemy is signed to Unicorn Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Aurelien Budynek Trio - live on April 7th

for the first time in.... almost 2 years, I finally get to play some of my own stuff in NYC. And here is all the info Monday, April 7th 2008 7pm sharp the Cutting Room 19 W 24th St (near Broadway) Ne...
Posted by Aurelien Budynek on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:57:00 PST

JustJazz Guitar Mag, Past, Present, Future, new CDs...

It's been a while since I've done anything to this page so I figured I would give some news past and future. And present too.So here we go.PRESENT NEWS- I was somewhat featured in an article in Just J...
Posted by Aurelien Budynek on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:50:00 PST

a couple new tunes

2 new tunes on top of 2 old ones.Descriptions to discover and refresh your memories.Across : a very freely, loosely improvised fretless guitar piece with the talents of Phil Griswold on drums and Wali...
Posted by Aurelien Budynek on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:38:00 PST

Free video lesson : introduction to Fretless Guitar

hey therethe music lesson website I work with called Music Virtuosity asked me to produce a little series of video lessons a while back. I decided to make an introduction to fretless guitar playing, a...
Posted by Aurelien Budynek on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:15:00 PST

Offering webcam lessons through MusicVirtuosity.com - details here!!

Regardless of where you are in the world (or where I am), you can now register to this fantastic website called MusicVirtuosity.com and sign up for lessons with me (as well as many other incredible pl...
Posted by Aurelien Budynek on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:12:00 PST

October : some new songs!!...

Hi! October, fall, rain and cold are coming around. no better time to post some new songs on my my my MySpace. yes. indeed. bye. oh yeah, here are some details about all of those. Green dust : recor...
Posted by Aurelien Budynek on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:46:00 PST