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Please join us for a special duo concert with vocalist, Arta Jēkabsone, and pianist, Baden Goyo. This was a beautiful concert!! Arta has a gorgeous voice, a joyous spirit, and virtuosic control. Baden accompanies so beautifully and selflessly and contributed several alluring compositions as well.
Here’s a free preview taken from the 55 minute set
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New York City-based Latvian singer, composer and arranger Arta Jēkabsone is recognized by her velvety tone. Arta engages listeners with an emotional and honest, adventurous and joyful expression of music. Recently Arta was awarded 1st prize at Montreux Shure Jazz Voice Competition in Switzerland (2016), 2nd prize at Mid- Atlantic Jazz Voice competition (2017) 3rd prize at Ella Fitzgerald International Vocal Competition (2019). At the end of the year, 2017 Jēkabsone released her debut album ”Light”. Recently her album with Erik Leuthäuser “Yesterday Still Lies Between the Floorboards” came out with support from the record label Unit Records.
The bound with nature is significant in Jēkabsone’s original music. She comes from a small countryside town Kandava, surrounded by forests and rivers, hearing and singing folk songs about nature- sun, moon, birds and Latvian females often compared with blooming flowers. Arta is bonded with nature in her style of writing lyrics.
Arta has performed internationally – Enjoy Jazz Festival (2018), Užutrakio Vakarai (2018) Montreux Jazz Festival (2017), Berne Jazz Festival (2016). She has sung in a funk band, jazz trio and as a backup singer for Sheila Ray Charles, daughter of Ray Charles. In March 2017 she took a part in Montreux Jazz Academy adventure featuring prestigious mentors like Kurt Rosenwinkel, Marcus Miller, Yaron Herman and etc. She was nominated for Best Concert Recording and Best Debut in Latvia’s Music Award of the Year “ Zelta Mikrofons” for her work and performance with Electric Combo (RDKS).
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Pianist, composer and arranger, Baden Goyo graduated from Lino Gallardo Music School and specialized in Jazz and Popular music with the Master Gerry Weil. He was the principal pianist of the Simon Bolívar Big Band Jazz, (one of the most prominent jazz Project in Venezuela in last decade) performing in several festivals and prestigious stages both nationally and internationally such as: Jazz al Parque (Colombia), Dizzy’s Club Jazz at Lincoln Center (New York) and New England Conservatory (Boston). After putting together his own Jazz Trio, Baden performed in several national festivals and theaters as a band leader: Noches de Guataca, Festival de Jazz de Paraguaná, Festival de jazz de Barquisimeto, etc. By 2014 he was considered one of the most important pianists of his home country, which allowed him to play and collaborate with most of the relevant Venezuelan artists: Pablo Gil, Rafael “el pollo” Brito, Aquiles Baez, Eddy Marcano, C4 Trio, Kiara, Mirna Rios, Primate, etc.
His successful career both as a pianist and composer in Venezuela is reflected within the important Book of Banesco entitled “A New Musical Country” which includes him as one of the youngest and most promising figures in Venezuelan Jazz, dedicating an entire section to his career. Furthermore, his work as composer and arranger has been acclaimed both in the Venezuelan audiences and internationally as well, reaching the peak recently in 2017 when he was awarded with 2 Latin Grammy (Best Album of the Year & Best Album of Salsa) and 1 Grammy (Best Latin Tropical Album) through his collaboration (as composer) with Ruben Blades, who wrote lyrics for one his compositions (¿Adónde?) and include it in his latest album entitled “Salsa Big Band”
In late 2014 he was honored with the President Scholarship at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City, where he lives since early 2015. In this same year, he became a Latin GRAMMY Cultural Foundation ambassador, being awarded with The Gifted Scholarship, one of their most prestigious scholarships which supported and sponsored his studies in New York. Being already settled in the city that never sleeps, Baden Goyo had worked in several musical projects with artists from all around the world having the chance to play in the most prestigious musical scenes such as: Merkin Hall (Lincoln Center), Dizzy’s Club (Jazz at Lincoln Center), The Capitol Theater, Paramount Theather, Jazz in the Square Series, Madison Square Park, United Nations, Subrosa, Groove, The Bitter End, etc. In addition to this, since 2016 he has constantly participated both as a sideman and as a bandleader in several international festivals such as: Bern Jazz Festival, Nordic Jazz Festival, Nisville Jazz Festival, Jazz on the River Festival, Latin American Cultural Week, Harlem Summer Stage Festival, among others. Currently he is the Director of Music programs and workshops coordinator at the prestigious local company Music Makers NYC. In 2019 Baden was asked to parter with Rock Piano Legen
Find them at https://artajekabsone.com/ and http://www.badengoyo.com/
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