BIOGRAPHY
Born in Extremadura (Spain), Rodrigo Parejo is an experimental jazz flutist, improviser, composer and educator. Characterized by his versatility working broadly in different music worlds from Jazz to Punk, crossing the sounds of World-Music (Flamenco, Latin, Brazilian, Gamelan...), Classical, Contemporary, Experimental, Electronic, Noise, Ambient, Free Jazz,...
Performed with musicians like Phil Woods, Norma Winstone, Alex Sipiagin, The Hague Ethospheric Orchestra, London Improvisers Orchestra, Royal Improvisers Orchestra, Han Bennink, John Ruocco, Bobby Martínez Latin Elation, Saray Muñoz, Israel Cerreduela, Lazara López Cachao, Gerardo Rosales, Yuri Honing, Eric Vloeimands, Michael Moore, Nicole Mitchell, dancer Rianto, Mao Arata, Prapto Suryodarmo, Asguests,...in South-East Asia, US, Canada and in a big part of Europe (North Sea Jazz Festival, Bimhuis, Festival Flamenco Viena, Steve Reich Festival, Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Margaret Greeham Theater, Bratislava Jazz Days, Lanjong Arts Festival, Orgelpark, Cafe Central Madrid,...)
Graduated with Honors from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (The Netherlands) in Jazz Performance, obtaining as well a Master Degree with positive critics. Also studied at the Banff Center of Arts (Canada), School for Improvisation (Oslo and New York), Institut Seni Indonesia (Surakarta, Central Java),... with musicians as John Ruocco, Dave Douglas, Ralph Alessi, Bobby Martínez, Tony Malaby, Ben Street, Joshua Redman, Jen Shyu, Hein van de Geyn, ...receiving different grants and scholarships by organizations as the Banff Center of Arts (Canada), Prins Bernhard Fonds (The Netherlands), Ministery of Culture of Indonesia, AIE (Spain), ...
Currently, Rodrigo is based in The Netherlands working on his personal project MOA (Matters of Asia), where he colaborates with different asian artists from the music and dance world, and it´s mainly inspired on the different sounds of the Asian culture, exposed on diverse contemporary compositions influenced by the worlds of jazz music, film music, electronic, ambient, electric jazz rock, gamelan, flamenco,..
Rodrigo Parejo was born in Extremadura, Spain in 1981. Started playing classical music at the age of 8, continuing his studies in Madrid and The Netherlands where he graduated with Honors in Jazz Performance at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. After positively completing his Masters Degree, he kept traveling and spending periods in countries as Canada, New York, Cambodia, Indonesia, Norway,… for studying, researching and performing in places as Banff Center of Arts, School for Improvisation, Institute Seni Indonesia,…learning from influencing musicians as John Ruocco, Bobby Martínez, Dave Douglas, Ralph Alessi, Tony Malaby, Ben Street, Joshua Redman, Jen Shyu,…
Rodrigo as a versatile musician and improviser, is characterized by having a particular sensibility, musicality and natural easiness on adapting with different type of musicians, dancers and artists from diverse cultures and social backgrounds. His world-wide music collaborations still make him develop his particular language and musicality definitively influenced by the sounds of Jazz, Classical, Contemporary-Avantgarde, Experimental Electronic music (Noise, Ambient…), Rock, world-music (Brazilian, Cuban, arabic, flamenco…), dance music,...
Some of his most important colaborations in the past have been with musicians as Phil Woods, Norma Winstone, London Improvisers Orchestra, Bobby Martínez, Lazara Cachao, Saray Muñoz, Alex Sipiagin, Peni Candrarini, Maya Dance Theater, dancer Rianto and Mao Arata, Antonio Sánchez (guitar), composer Anna Mikhailova…in places as North Sea Festival, Bimhuis, Flamenco Festival Vienna, Steve Reich Festival, Bratislava Jazz Days, SIPA,…
Nowadays, he´s in based between The Netherlands and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) working with different projects of Jazz, Brazilian, Flamenco music,...
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Performed with: Phil Woods, Jim McNeely, John Ruocco, Bobby Martinez Latin Elation, Maggie Nichols, Norma Winstone, Alex Sipiagin, Jodi Gilbert, Diego Mune, Michael Moore, Wilbert de Joode, Michael Vatcher, Neil Metcalfe, Eric Vloeimans, London Improvisers Orchestra, Augusto Pirodda, Michal Vanoucek, As guests quintet, Brice Soniano, Saray Muñoz Barrul, Israel Cerreduela, Neel de Jong, Jacques Demierre, Christy Doran, Jesse van Ruller, Han Bennink, Tristan Honsinger, Ab Baars, Pepe Rivero, Anton Goudsmit, Yuri Honing, Michiel Borstlap, Lazara Lopez Cachao, Gerardo Rosales, Phil Minton, Butch Morris, Henk Meugeert, Mike Manieri, Steve Beresford, Stef van Es, Tato de Moraes, Juanjo Pizarro, Guillermo Celano, Nicole Mitchell, Ivar Grydeland, Royal Improvisers Orchestra (RIO),Rianto, Mao Arata, Kenzo Kusuda,Lucía Ruibal,...
Performed in: Spain, The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Canada, US (New York), UK (London), Cambodia, Indonesia, France (Paris),... at North Sea Jazz Festival (NL), Bimhuis (NL), Bratislava Jazz Days (SK), Festival Flamenco Vienna (Austria), Jazzycolors Festival (Paris), Steve Reich Festival (NL), Margaret Greenham Theatre (Canada), National Austrian Radio and TV (ORF), Spanish Radio (RNE-5), Portuguese TV (RTP2), Czech Radio (CRO), Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene (Oslo), Theater Odeon (Vienna), Dag in de Branding (Holland), het Nuthuis (NL), Cafe Central (Madrid),...
*Received music education studying with masters like John Ruocco, Hein van de Gein, Dave Douglas, Ralph Alessi, Joshua Redman, Ben Street, Tony Malaby, Jen Shyu, Bobby Martinez, Suprapto...
Rodrigo has given workshops and masterclasses of Improvisation in Spain, Czech Rep., Cambodia, Indonesia and The Netherlands.
During the years he has been supported and granted by different organizations as Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds*, Banff Center for Arts, Junta de Extremadura, Ministery of Culture of Indonesia..
Performed with musicians like Phil Woods, Norma Winstone, Alex Sipiagin, The Hague Ethospheric Orchestra, London Improvisers Orchestra, Royal Improvisers Orchestra, Han Bennink, John Ruocco, Bobby Martínez Latin Elation, Saray Muñoz, Israel Cerreduela, Lazara López Cachao, Gerardo Rosales, Yuri Honing, Eric Vloeimands, Michael Moore, Nicole Mitchell, dancer Rianto, Mao Arata, Prapto Suryodarmo, Asguests,...in South-East Asia, US, Canada and in a big part of Europe (North Sea Jazz Festival, Bimhuis, Festival Flamenco Viena, Steve Reich Festival, Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene, Margaret Greeham Theater, Bratislava Jazz Days, Lanjong Arts Festival, Orgelpark, Cafe Central Madrid,...)
Graduated with Honors from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (The Netherlands) in Jazz Performance, obtaining as well a Master Degree with positive critics. Also studied at the Banff Center of Arts (Canada), School for Improvisation (Oslo and New York), Institut Seni Indonesia (Surakarta, Central Java),... with musicians as John Ruocco, Dave Douglas, Ralph Alessi, Bobby Martínez, Tony Malaby, Ben Street, Joshua Redman, Jen Shyu, Hein van de Geyn, ...receiving different grants and scholarships by organizations as the Banff Center of Arts (Canada), Prins Bernhard Fonds (The Netherlands), Ministery of Culture of Indonesia, AIE (Spain), ...
Currently, Rodrigo is based in The Netherlands working on his personal project MOA (Matters of Asia), where he colaborates with different asian artists from the music and dance world, and it´s mainly inspired on the different sounds of the Asian culture, exposed on diverse contemporary compositions influenced by the worlds of jazz music, film music, electronic, ambient, electric jazz rock, gamelan, flamenco,..
Rodrigo Parejo was born in Extremadura, Spain in 1981. Started playing classical music at the age of 8, continuing his studies in Madrid and The Netherlands where he graduated with Honors in Jazz Performance at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. After positively completing his Masters Degree, he kept traveling and spending periods in countries as Canada, New York, Cambodia, Indonesia, Norway,… for studying, researching and performing in places as Banff Center of Arts, School for Improvisation, Institute Seni Indonesia,…learning from influencing musicians as John Ruocco, Bobby Martínez, Dave Douglas, Ralph Alessi, Tony Malaby, Ben Street, Joshua Redman, Jen Shyu,…
Rodrigo as a versatile musician and improviser, is characterized by having a particular sensibility, musicality and natural easiness on adapting with different type of musicians, dancers and artists from diverse cultures and social backgrounds. His world-wide music collaborations still make him develop his particular language and musicality definitively influenced by the sounds of Jazz, Classical, Contemporary-Avantgarde, Experimental Electronic music (Noise, Ambient…), Rock, world-music (Brazilian, Cuban, arabic, flamenco…), dance music,...
Some of his most important colaborations in the past have been with musicians as Phil Woods, Norma Winstone, London Improvisers Orchestra, Bobby Martínez, Lazara Cachao, Saray Muñoz, Alex Sipiagin, Peni Candrarini, Maya Dance Theater, dancer Rianto and Mao Arata, Antonio Sánchez (guitar), composer Anna Mikhailova…in places as North Sea Festival, Bimhuis, Flamenco Festival Vienna, Steve Reich Festival, Bratislava Jazz Days, SIPA,…
Nowadays, he´s in based between The Netherlands and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) working with different projects of Jazz, Brazilian, Flamenco music,...
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Performed with: Phil Woods, Jim McNeely, John Ruocco, Bobby Martinez Latin Elation, Maggie Nichols, Norma Winstone, Alex Sipiagin, Jodi Gilbert, Diego Mune, Michael Moore, Wilbert de Joode, Michael Vatcher, Neil Metcalfe, Eric Vloeimans, London Improvisers Orchestra, Augusto Pirodda, Michal Vanoucek, As guests quintet, Brice Soniano, Saray Muñoz Barrul, Israel Cerreduela, Neel de Jong, Jacques Demierre, Christy Doran, Jesse van Ruller, Han Bennink, Tristan Honsinger, Ab Baars, Pepe Rivero, Anton Goudsmit, Yuri Honing, Michiel Borstlap, Lazara Lopez Cachao, Gerardo Rosales, Phil Minton, Butch Morris, Henk Meugeert, Mike Manieri, Steve Beresford, Stef van Es, Tato de Moraes, Juanjo Pizarro, Guillermo Celano, Nicole Mitchell, Ivar Grydeland, Royal Improvisers Orchestra (RIO),Rianto, Mao Arata, Kenzo Kusuda,Lucía Ruibal,...
Performed in: Spain, The Netherlands, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Canada, US (New York), UK (London), Cambodia, Indonesia, France (Paris),... at North Sea Jazz Festival (NL), Bimhuis (NL), Bratislava Jazz Days (SK), Festival Flamenco Vienna (Austria), Jazzycolors Festival (Paris), Steve Reich Festival (NL), Margaret Greenham Theatre (Canada), National Austrian Radio and TV (ORF), Spanish Radio (RNE-5), Portuguese TV (RTP2), Czech Radio (CRO), Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene (Oslo), Theater Odeon (Vienna), Dag in de Branding (Holland), het Nuthuis (NL), Cafe Central (Madrid),...
*Received music education studying with masters like John Ruocco, Hein van de Gein, Dave Douglas, Ralph Alessi, Joshua Redman, Ben Street, Tony Malaby, Jen Shyu, Bobby Martinez, Suprapto...
Rodrigo has given workshops and masterclasses of Improvisation in Spain, Czech Rep., Cambodia, Indonesia and The Netherlands.
During the years he has been supported and granted by different organizations as Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds*, Banff Center for Arts, Junta de Extremadura, Ministery of Culture of Indonesia..
