User:Gnojechowicz/Guillermo Nojechowicz

Guillermo Nojechowicz is a drummer and composer. The son of an actress and a painter Noe Nojechowicz, he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was raised surrounded by the tango of Astor Piazzolla, the rock songs of Luis Alberto Spinetta, and the jazz of Oscar Peterson.

While in Argentina, he played with many artists and recorded for CBS with the rock group Rayuela. He then attended the National Conservatory of Music Lopez Buchardo. A Fullbright scholarship recipient, he moved to the US in 1980 to study at Berklee College of Music where he received a degree in Film Scoring.

His group EL ECO was featured on National Public Radio's Jazz Set with host Dee Dee Bridgewater (Tony and Grammy winner vocalist). His band has performed at many venues and festivals including the Montreal Jazz Festival in Canada, Freihofer Jazz Festival in Saratoga Springs, NY, Blue Note in New York City and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and is now getting national and international attention. Recently EL ECO performed at Telluride Jazz Celebration in Colorado with guest Airto Moreira. On this festival his group performed along artists like Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Airto and Flora Purim.

From 1987 to 1993, Guillermo was an artist in residence at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts (US) where he worked with composer Elliot Goldenthal (Frida) and Andrei Serban. Most recently he wrote original music for “Paradise Found: Phoenix Islands,” a New England Aquarium World of Water Film, sponsored by the National Geographic Magazine. Guillermo also wrote music for the TV special "Growing up on a Fast Forward" for Boston's ABC affiliate WCVB. This special got the National Gabriel and Peabody Award. Guillermo's music has been also featured on PBS (La Plaza) and on the news program "Chronicle" (WCVB-TV).

Guillermo has performed with Claudio Roditi (Dizzy Gillespie), Jon Faddis, Carly Simon, Danilo Perez, Airto Moreira, Romero Lubambo, Walter Vanderlei, and Pedro Aznar (Pat Metheny), among others. He has also taught at the New England Conservatory and at Berklee College of Music. He teaches drums at The Drum Studio in Boston and at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School where he recently established the high school’s first Drum Line and World Jazz Ensemble. Guillermo has studied with Charlie Banacos, Herb Pomeroy, Duduka DaFonseca, Gary Chaffee and Portinho in the US and with Beatriz Tabares and Chiche Heger in Argentina.