User:Luis Nubiola

Luis Nubiola -Born in the province of Holgun,Cuba,Luis Nubiola started his musical studies at the Escuela Vocacional de Arte Raúl Gomez Garcia. Later he attended the music school Jose Maria Ochoa - located in the same province - where he colaborated with several musical groups in local and international music festivals. In 1990 he won first place at the Musica Amadeo Roldan musical contest. Luis Nubiola is graduated as an instrumentalist, saxophone teacher from the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica de La Habana Amadeo Roldan. He studied under the class of Carlos Averhoff, actual saxophone professor at Florida International University. Nubiola played for several years in La Zorra y El Cuervo, the only Jazz Club in Cuba. There he had the opportunity to share the stage with accomplished musicians as such as Steve Coleman, Wynton Marsalis, George Benson, Gonzalo Rubalcava,Danilo Pérez and Chucho Valdez. He also played with cuban musical group PG, under the direction of Jose Luis Cortes (El Tosco), founder of the famous NG La Banda. Luis Nubiola decided to settle down in Costa Rica when he traveled with Top Secret - a group directed by the distinguished trumpet player Jose Miguel Credo (El Greco) - for a preformance at the Melico Salazar Theater. In Costa Rica he has been woorking as a the saxophone professor at the Academia de Musica Bach and Yamaha. Nubiola has played with well known musicians as Walter Flores, Gilberto Jarquin, Miriam Jarquin, Ramses Araya, Chepe Gonzalez, Luis Monge, Squad, The Neotics and with renowned international musicians such as Brandon Fields and Paquito D'Rivera. He now performs with the cuban musical group Chocolate. This group brought to Costa Rica rhythms from the island of Cuba. In december 2005, Nubiola recorded his first musical production. This CD contains seven oroginal tracks based on Afro-Cuban Jazz with some elements of the cuban cultural syncretism. With this CD, he won the 2007 ACAM award (Asociación de Compositores y Autores Musicales de Costa Rica) to the best CD jazz album of the year. Back in November 2007, Luis Nubiola releases his first DVD: Live At Jazz Café, becoming the first Jazz DVD made in Costa Rica. Produced by DART (Diseño, Arte y Tecnología) and Luis Nubiola. The DVD includes songs from Luis Nubiola..s first Album: Nubiola. The DVD also offers various sound formats such as Digital Dolby 2.0 and 5.1 and also includes an interview with Nubiola made by well known music reviewer Alberto Zúñiga. In May 2008 Nubiola went on a five months tour that included Cuba and several countries of the European Community, allowing Nubiola to expand his musical and personal experience and bringing a new direction in his musical journey. Nubiola is about to release his new album: 914, also produced by DART. 914 includes an audio CD and a DVD with the live studio sessions of each song in the album. Each track on the DVD is presented in various formats such as full color, black and white, and sepia. Luis Nubiola is an active member of ACAM (Asociación de Autores y Compositores de Costa Rica) and was recently added to the selected list of juries of this prestigious institution.