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(composer/harpist/singer)
Latin American, poetical, world,
new wave and traditional
Ricardo
García-Curbelo studied the harp at the Music
Academy of Villavicencio, with Luis Alberto Curvelo, his
brother and Director of the institution. Ricardo later became Director
of Dance for 3 years at this academy. He studied music theory
at the Music Academy Luis A. Calbo and attended voice production
classes with legendary
maestro cultural promoter, Manuel Zapata
Olivella, at
the National University in Bogotá. Ricardo
specializes in Joropo, a music that combines poetry, with Classical,
Flamenco and Jazz music. He plays the Modelo Corvado 42 string harp.
Ricardo is a unique and dedicated artist, known and
loved for his passionate, gifted way of communicating with the public.
The special talent that he showed early as an
artist on stage to the maestro representatives of Llanero music
(Joropo), led him to be the youngest dancer and composer poet and
performer from his region, to be awarded
International
first prizes on several
occasions. He is a
winner
of six
international competitions in his homeland, three as poetry writer and
performer and three as a dancer. As a poet Ricardo
is artistically known as El
Cóndor. In the UK he has given
a wide range
of performances; his artistic field embraces the stage from radio,
television, satellite and film documentaries to educational
institutions, private functions, charity performances and
concerts. He is delighted to share this concert with Kai
Jansen at Theatro Technis.
The Latin
American Professionals
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(guitarist/singer/songwriter)
From
classical to modern and standards to Sting
Kai
Jansen has been a working musician
for 39 years as a guitarist,
vocalist and songwriter. This has include a range of performances from
pubs, restaurants, hotels, to National and Provincial BBC TV and radio,
to concert stages in Britain, Germany and Japan, playing classical
guitar recitals or sub-billings to performers like Mike D’Abo
(ex-Manfred Mann), Nina (of Nina and Frederick’) and Bridget
St.John (New York’s famous café singer/songwriter)
in the
heyday of the folk-rock movement.
He
has produced 4 albums on his own label – Peartree Recordings,
3
vocal and one instrumental. These range in style from popular song
arrangements to more worked-out guitar compositions with string,
synthesisers and various acoustic instruments, to the 3rd, an
all-original song collection called ‘Worlds
Apart’.
His latest vocal album is a live production called
‘Lifeforms’, which contains 12 covers and
5 original tracks.
July 2002 with an appearances at Theatro Technis, followed by
many others, around the U.K., including a
performance in the Old Trafford
Stadium, home of Manchester United, as
support act to Samantha Mumba for the ‘Super Rugby-League
Grand
Final’, to a crowd of 64,000 people. Since then, family ties
have kept him closer to home in Hampshire.
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