Georgia Tech School of Music Presents:
GT Jazz Ensembles with Guest Artist Daniel Juarez
Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023
7:30pm
Ferst Center of the Arts
Guest Artist, Daniel Juarez, Saxophone
Daniel Juarez – Guest Artist
Based in Madrid since 2017, Daniel Juárez is a renowned saxophonist, composer and educator. He released his first album "Caminos" as a band leader in 2014, showing great skills on tenor sax, as well as in the field of composition and arrangements. He is always committed to composing new original music that mixes jazz with styles as diverse as pop, hip-hop, odd meters, ballads, electronica, free and contemporary music. His innovative vision of music makes him one of the most outstanding artists in Europe.
Studied his bachelor's degree at Musikene (Donostia, Spain). Later on, he went to the Netherlands to study his master's degree at the Prins Claus Conservatory, during which he completed an exchange with Queens College. He would live for six months in New York City, where he recorded his second album "Neuronal Odd World", released in 2017. Afterwards he returns to Spain and releases "Tales From Some Of Those Lands" in 2019. And more recently he recorded live his latest album, "Energía - Live", released on November 11th (2022) with the label ΠΚmusic, leaded by the well-known double bass player Petros Klampanis.
He played with artists such as Adam Nussbaum, Dave Liebman, Rhonda Ross, Michael Moore, Rodney Kendrick, Kevin Hays, Jerry González, Alina Engibaryan, Marc Miralta, Owen Hart Jr., Kurt Weiss, Perico Sambeat, Roberto Pistolesi, Guillermo McGill, Miron Rafajlovic, among others.
Nowadays he combines his activity between concerts as a professional musician, and teaching Jazz & modern Music saxophone, big band and improvisation lessons at Alfonso X El Sabio University (UAX) in Madrid, Spain.