Fernando Miceli

voice/composition/arrangements

He was born in Quilmes, a city near from the capital Buenos Aires. At the age of 6 years took Miceli his first steps towards music being assisted by his mother, a music teacher and opera singer.

In 1978 Miceli was admitted in the "Conservatorio Nacional Manuel de Falla" of Buenos Aires, where he studied cello, flute, choral direction and singing. He was trained in singing by Carlo Bianchi, Hector de Rosas und Leo Schwarz, in choral direction by Rodolfo Van der Meulen and Antonio Russo and in tango interpretation by the well known maestro Sebastian Piana.
Miceli's first public concerts were as baritone of the choir of the "Conservatorio Nacional Manuel de Falla" and "Coro Bach". He built also his first chamber voice ensemble "Octeto del Sur" which Miceli leaded and with which he gave several performances. After finishing his music studies in 1986 absolved Fernando Miceli a two years drama study at the "Taller Teatral San Cristobal" of Buenos Aires followed by his first performances in theatre, musical and café concerts.

In 1992 emigrated Miceli to Berlin. There he worked as singer and actor, performing with his several groups of Latin-American music and Tango. He toured in 2004 playing among other venues at the legendary Café Homero of Buenos Aires, one of the best known places of tango there.

During the “First Cultural Dialog Buenos Aires Berlin” Miceli participated actively with a performance of his Trio at the cycle "Mythen und Metropolen" and with the Luis Borda Cuarteto at the Passionskirche Berlin.

In Dezember 2005 Fernando Miceli released his first CD "Tango de Raíz" which contains own Tangos, Ballades and Candombes. This work was selected in may 2006 as “CD of the month” by the magazine ECOS.
In autumm 2006 followed a succesful tour throught Europe, on which Miceli sung at very important venues like the Philharmonie of Berlin.

Rodrigo Adaro

guitar

Rodrigo Adaro was born 1981 in Rosario, Argentina. Adaro has made his musical studies at the „Escuela de musica popular“ and later at the High School of Music of the „Universidad Nacional de Rosario“ in Argentina. At the same time he tooks master classes from the afamed maestros Oscar Madarei, Ricardo Peralta und Jorge Armani.
In Germany Adaro specialized himself as jazzguitar player at the "Musikhochschule Nürnberg-Augsburg"

Throught his special style of guitar interpretation Adaro brings thogether differents elements of funk, jazz, tango and latin, which he developes at countless bands and groups in Europe. Adaro conducts whereas his own latin-lazz quartett "Rodrigo Adaro Quartett“.

Ricardo Moreno

percussion/voice

He was born 1963 in Havanna/ Cuba and grew up in Santiago de Cuba, the birthplace of "son". With eight years begun Moreno autodidactic to learn the guitar and percussion and later played himself at differents college circuits.

At the beginning of the ninetys Moreno emigred to Europe and finally settled in Berlin, Germany. Here improved his musical knowledge with several maestros and performed at differents bands as percussionist and singer.

Ricardo Moreno gathered aknowledge at the european latin-scene as an genuine perfomer of cuban music. He founded in 2000 his „Ricardo Moreno Afro Cuban Band“ , reproducing famous cuban classics and own compositions with innovative arrangements.

 

Pablo Portela
piano/arrangements

Pablo Portela was born in 1977 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

He took his first music lessons from his mother, a proffessional piano player and his father, a lyric singer. Later Portela learned jazz and classic piano by Ramiro Schiavonni, José Reinoso and Eduardo Tancredi.

Just in Europe he absolved a music study at the “L`aula del conservatorio del Liceu”, a dependence of the famous "Berklee College of Music", in Barcelona, Spain.

Portela achieved a well reputation in Spain as piano performer and arranger , working with several groups of rock, pop, latin and jazz, and as pianist of Argentina´s rock legend Mauricio “Moris” Birabent.
Since 2006 lives Portela in Berlin, Germany, where he works as composer of film and radio music.

Daniel Allen
trumpet

Daniel Allen was born in Cuba in 1979. With 9 years old he begin to study trumpet in the music School in Holguin (eva), after 4 years in the Music Conservatory (Holguin) and then In Havana in the Music University (ISA) …there he got the chance to meet Herbie Hancock, Nicholas Payton, Danilo Perez, Kenny Baron ( in the international Jazz Festival).

Donald Harrison invite him to study in the school where he was teaching in New Orleans but because Visa complications he decided to go to Europe where he share the stage with many Artist like: Earth Wind and Fire, Patrice, Lauren Hill, Zap Mama, Dave Brubeck, Ray Vega, Raul Paz, UB 40, Sargento Garcia, Jimi Tenor, Tony Allen, Omar Sosa, Herbie Hancock, Morgan Heritage, Sly & Robbie, Jean Paul, Marilyn Manson, Buju Banton, Eric Clapton and many others.

Since winter 2002 start playing with PATRICE and the Shashamani Band, touring around Europe in deferent’s Radio shows, MTV videos and the Tops Europeans Festivals like; Rock am Ring, Rock im Park, Sommerjam, Sunsplash, St. Gallen-Roskilde, and many others. CD production with: Patrice, Brothers Keepers, Ono, Laura Lopez, and many others.

Jotham Bleiberg
trumpet

Geboren in Berlin, beginnt Jotham Bleiberg seine musikalische Ausbildung im Alter von fünf Jahren. 2000 erhält er sein High-School- Diplom an der „School of the Arts of San Francisco“ (USA). Anschließend studiert er an der „San Francisco State University“. Während seines USA-Aufenthalts macht Bleiberg durch Auftritte mit der Band „Mala Fama“, dem Drum & Dance Ensemble „Loco Bloco“ sowie dem „Orquesta Cani“ erste Erfahrungen mit der Salsa-Musik.
Bleiberg hat anschließend seinen Musikabschluss an der Universität der Künste so wie an der Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin jeweils in Jazz und Klassik erlangt.

Sein außerordentliches Talent als Arrangeur, Komponist und Interpret der Jazz- und Latin-Musik beweist er mit seiner Mitwirkung bei wichtigen Musikprojekten wie Vaivén (Timba), Malanga (Salsa) oder Blackmail (Blues/Soul), und nicht zuletzt bei der Berliner Timba-Gruppe „Mi Solar“, dessen Mitgründer und künstlerischer Leiter er ist.