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Kenneth Joseph Ecury begins his musical studies at the age of seven years being the accordeon his first instrument. He later continues studying the Latin American Diatonic harp (Arpa Llanera) under the tutelage of Professor Esther de Castro. He toured Canada, America, Mexico and European countries giving recitals and school concerts as a soloist and also as a member of the JYA-SU group.

Ken studies Social & Political Sciences at the Free University of Amsterdam and continued his Master and Ph.D. at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the specialty of Educational Sociology. In 1979 he studies Classical Harmony in the city of Montreal, Canada with Professor Isabel Delorme. In 1981 he moved to Maastricht, the Netherlands where he continued studying Bel Canto and Harmony at the Maastricht Conservatory. In 1983 he formed the first European Mariachi, which is a Popular Orquesta concept widely known in México.

Ken studied Contemporary Tonal Harmony and Composition in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico under tutelage of professor Juan Fernando Haro and professor Mario Romero.

Ken resides in Malaga since 1995 where he started teaching Contemporary Tonal Harmony at the Ateneo Music and Dance Conservatory. From this year on Ken develops an exhaustive study of Classical, Romantic, Impressionistic, Contemporary and Jazz Harmony, based on the Circle of 5th. In 1997 Ken presents a teaching method for the blind based on a pictographic writing in relievo. By then Ken has become a fully dedicated private piano and harmony teacher. By 1998, Ken completes his project of symmetrical tuning in Polyphonic instruments, which included the construction of a double row chromatic harp without pedals and the rebirth of the symmetrical piano by Paul von Janko and their corresponding methods. Meanwhile he develops the Geometry of Music workshops for beginners, musicians, arrangers, composers, as well as teachers and students of the Conservatory's higher courses.

In 2001 a series of books were published of Ken´s method. These were the results of the Intensive Harp & Piano Seminar that were held in Germany from 2002 till 2009, in the Netherlands in 2010 and in Malaga since 2011.

Ken has composed over 250 musical pieces. He has written but not published Harmony for Jazz and Modern Piano a revolutionary content for non tonal harmonic study, an in-depth analysis of the development of the Circle of 5ths from a geometric perspective that allows a fast and congruent understanding of non tonal harmonic structures. This theoretical-practical manual is specially directed to Jazz and Contemporary music composers.

Ken is the founder of the New European Piano School.

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