Marcelo Peralta is an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 performer, teacher, composer and arranger that plays all the saxophone

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

s, piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

, accordion

Accordion

The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

, and the Latin American aerophones.

Education

Peralta was born in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

. He studied piano and music theory

Music theory

Music theory is the study of how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It seeks to identify patterns and structures in composers' techniques across or within genres, styles, or historical periods...

 at the Antiguo Conservatorio Beethoven, where he obtained a teaching certificate in 1979. At the age of 18, he began to play the baritone sax

Baritone saxophone

The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the largest and lowest pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax. The baritone is distinguished from smaller sizes of saxophone by the extra loop near its mouthpiece...

, showing a particular interest in the music of Serge Chaloff

Serge Chaloff

Serge Chaloff was an American jazz baritone saxophonist.The son of noted Boston piano teachers, Margaret and Julius Chaloff, he was among the few major jazz performers on his instrument. Until Chaloff the only prominent baritone player in jazz was Harry Carney of the Duke Ellington Orchestra...

; inspired by John Coltrane

John Coltrane

John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz...

, Albert Ayler

Albert Ayler

Albert Ayler was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.Ayler was among the most primal of the free jazz musicians of the 1960s; critic John Litweiler wrote that "never before or since has there been such naked aggression in jazz" He possessed a deep blistering tone—achieved...

 and Ornette Coleman, he went on to learn tenor sax

Tenor saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...

, then alto

Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...

 and finally soprano

Soprano saxophone

The soprano saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in 1840. The soprano is the third smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass and tubax.A transposing instrument pitched in...

. While studying harmony and composition under tango composer Sebastian Piana, he taught himself to play trumpet

Trumpet

The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

, trombone

Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...

, tuba

Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...

, violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

, clarinet

Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...

 and other Latin American folk instruments.

Since that time he has taught at several schools. In 1980 he taught music in both elementary and high schools, as welI as at special education institutions. At the same time , he was hired as a saxophone and improvisation instructor at the Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla (Buenos Aires).

Career

At 18, he began his career as a freelance musician and went on to play and record with a wide range of artists and in many styles: The Bucky Arcella Trio, Manolo Yanes, Litto Nebbia

Litto Nebbia

Litto Nebbia is a singer, songwriter and producer prominent in the development of Argentine rock.-Life and work:Félix Francisco Nebbia was born in Rosario to Martha and Félix Nebbia, in 1948. His parents were struggling musicians, though during his early teens, Litto left secondary school to join...

, Fabiana Cantilo

Fabiana Cantilo

Fabiana Cantilo is a singer and songwriter from Argentina. She has sold more than 5 million records in her career.- Soloist :* Detectives * Fabiana Cantilo y los Perros Calientes...

, Cuatro Vientos (sax quartet), LRA National Radio Orchestra (as a soloist), to name a few.

In 1985 he met the guitar player Jorge Mancini, with whom he began to experiment in free improvisation

Free improvisation

Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician involved. The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right....

 and contemporary music; they were joined by the sax player Mariana Potenza and the percussionist Victor Da Cunha, together creating the Grupo de Improvisación Tercer Mundo (Third World improvisation Group). It was with this group that he recorded his first record as a soloist - Un Hilo de Luz (1987).

Although he had been playing the quena

Quena

The quena is the traditional flute of the Andes. Usually made of bamboo or wood, it has 6 finger holes and one thumb hole and is open on both ends. To produce sound, the player closes the top end of the pipe with the flesh between his chin and lower lip, and blows a stream of air downward, along...

, the accordion and other ethnic and percussion instruments alongside the standard ones for several years, his interest in folk music was further developed in 1988 when he performed and recorded with the pianist and composer Eduardo Lagos (a great innovator in Argentine folklore).

He developed a truly personal view of improvised music when he formed his own quintet, with which he explored the deepest roots of Latin American music. Together with musicians such as Cesar Franov, Enrique Norris, Carlos Triolo, Diego Pojomovsky, and Guillermo Bazzola, among others, he made his second recording,"Escaleras de la Comprensión� (Melopea Records- 1990/91).

Over the next five years he headed the big band Los Saxópatas (1990/95) with which he recorded and performed throughout Argentina. In Buenos Aires he recorded Milonga (Melopea Records- 1997) and made the debut of bis solo set show in which he improvises freely on American folk tunes, interpreting bagualas, vidalas, bailecitos, chacarera

Chacarera

The Chacarera is a dance of Argentine origin. It is a genre of folk music that, for many Argentines, serves as a rural counterpart to the cosmopolitan imagery of the Tango...

s and others in his own unique style.

He currently lives in Spain

Spain

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, where he teaches saxophone and improvisation at several music schools and performs both in:

• Festival de Jazz de Madrid 2007-2006- 2005,
• Tanjazz 2007 (Tánger)
• Festival Internacional de Vigo “Imagina-Sons 2007”,
• Mostoles a todo Jazz 2006-2005,
• Munijazz (La Rioja),
• Festival de Jazz de Boadilla del Monte (2005),
• Festival Internaconal de Jazz de Ciudad Lineal 2005-
• Galapajazz 2005 – Expo 02 (Suiza),
• Festival de Jazz Soto del Real 2003,
• Festival de Jazz de Tarragona 2003,
• Festival de Jazz de Paris 2001(Francia),
• Festival de Jazz Quilmes 1995 (Argentina),
• Alrededor del Jazz Festival 1989 (Argentina)
• MardelJazz 1988 (Argentina)
• Rock&piano- Obras Sanitarias-1987(Argentina).

Discography

• Serie Melopea Jazz Argentino Vol. 1

Litto Nebbia Cuarteto - MELOPEA / INTERDISC (DSL 66094-1)

• Serie Melopea Jazz Argentino Vol. 2

Grupo de Improvisación Tercer Mundo - MELOPEA (CM 008)

• Tangueando

Gustavo Fedel - MELOPEA / INTERDISC (DSL 66071)

• Buscando en el Bolsillo del Alma

Litto Nebbia - MELOPEA / INTERDISC (SLI 67549-2)

• Un Hilo de Luz

Marcelo Peralta y Grupo Tercer Mundo - MELOPEA (DM 014)

• Serie Melopea Los Saxofonistas

Marcelo Peralta - MELOPEA (CM 017)

• Escaleras de la Comprensión

Marcelo Peralta - MELOPEA (CM 064)

• Homenaje a Tom Jobim

Marcelo Peralta - Litto Nebbia MELOPEA

• Milonga

Marcelo Peralta - MELOPEA (CDM 014) - NUEVOS MEDIOS IMPORT

• Lo que nos gusta es esto

Santiago de la Muela – SATCHMO

• Fall

Peter Dieterle - David Lenker - Marcelo Peralta

• DixFunxional Brass Band

Tony Heimer – Bob Sands – Chris Kase – Ove Larson – Greg Moore –

Steve Jordan – Marcelo Peralta – MOCO DE PAVO PRODUCCIONS

• Música – Yumiko Murakami

PAI – 3068

• Dr. Macaroni – Cum Laude

TCB- The Montreaux Jazz Label

• Jazz Sinfónico – Orquesta Sinfonica de RTVE

External links

• http://www.sonicgarden.com/artists/marcelo_peralta