Musiksommer: Marialy Pacheco

"On the Road"

World Music, Classical

The award-winning Cuban star pianist Marialy Pacheco takes the audience on a musical journey through Latin America, adjusting the exact course to the mood and atmosphere of the evening.

Marialy Pacheco: Piano

Admission: € 26.00
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On the Road

The Cuban star pianist Marialy Pacheco comes to Bad Schallerbach for the first time! With the program “On the Road,” she presents a musical journey through Latin America, the exact course of which she adapts to the mood and atmosphere of the evening. The audience can expect a mixture of original compositions and her own arrangements of Latin American composers, such as Ernesto Lecuona, Antonio Rumeo, or Moises Simons, all played in a jazzy, Latin American style and moderated by Marialy Pacheco. 

Marialy Pacheco

Marialy Pacheco won the already 15-year-old  Montreux Solo Piano Competition in 2012 as the first woman. The jury chairman Leszek Mozdzer stated: “Deciding between the three contenders was tough. In the end, the contestants’ joy in performing and her authenticity guided our decision making.”

Born in 1983 in Havana, Marialy Pacheco grew up in a musical family and received classical piano lessons early on at the Conservatorio Alejandro García Caturla. At 15, she attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes, followed by a three-year composition study with Tulio Peramo at the Instituto Superior de Artes in Havana. In 2002, she won the Cuban Jo-Jazz Competition, where the Grammy-winning Chucho Valdes was the jury chairman.

Since April 2013, Marialy Pacheco has lived in Germany and has appeared at renowned national and international festivals such as the Montreux Jazz Festival, Aalener Jazzfest, Enter Music Festival, St. Moritz Art Masters, Piano City Milano, Rheingau Music Festival, Dresden Music Festival, Kissinger Sommer, ZMF Freiburg, Audi Jazz Festival, Ingolstadt Jazz Days, and the Beethovenfest Bonn. On the occasion of the 185th anniversary of Bösendorfer, Marialy Pacheco performed in October 2013 at the Musikverein Vienna.

In 2014, she was appointed the official “Bösendorfer Artist”, as the first and only jazz pianist in the world. With a guest appearance at the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Australia, she showcased another facet of her musical diversity, debuting this summer as a soloist with Bach's g-minor piano concerto and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Gimeno in Brisbane. In spring 2014, Marialy Pacheco released her first German CD production “Introducing.” Featured as “special guests” are trumpet player and Echo Jazz award winner Joo Kraus and percussionist Rhani Krija (STING). In January 2016, an exclusive and limited solo vinyl album was released, produced as a live studio concert using analog recording techniques.

In June 2016, Marialy Pacheco presented the project “Danzon Cubano” together with the WDR Funkhausorchester, which premiered in September 2016, including at the Beethovenfest in Bonn. Simultaneously, she performed as a soloist at the Rheingau Music Festival with the “Cuban European Orchestra” conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock.

In January 2017, Marialy Pacheco was a soloist with the legendary Filmorchester Babelsberg as part of the “Ladies Jazz Night” series at the sold-out Nikolaisaal in Potsdam. The new album “DUETS” was released in April 2017. A very intimate and multifaceted album, for which Marialy Pacheco invited her favorite musicians and friends, such as Hamilton de Holanda, Omar Sosa, Joo Kraus, Rhani Krija, Miguel Zenon, and Max Mutzke. In summer 2017, she returned to the Montreux Jazz Festival and made her debut at the legendary Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London. With the WDR Funkhausorchester conducted by Gordon Hamilton, she presented the project “Danzon Cubano” again in September 2017. Sold-out Kölner Philharmonie and also sold-out Festsaal as part of the International Jazz Festival in Viersen.

In January 2018, Marialy performed an exclusive concert on behalf of the German Embassy and the Goethe Institute at the Ambassador's residence during the Havana Jazz Festival, as well as at the Port au Prince Jazz Festival in Haiti. In February 2018, she toured Italy with trumpet player Joo Kraus with sold-out concerts in Milan, Naples, Catania, and Palermo. Since spring 2018, Marialy has been touring in various formations with the project “DUETS,” including with Omar Sosa at the Jazz Festival in Leibnitz, with Rhani Krija at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, with Joo Kraus at the Philharmonie Luxembourg, and with Max Mutzke at the Jazz Festival in Aalen. In June 2018, she made her debut at the “Kissinger Sommer” in the sold-out Rossini Hall.

In March 2019, she performed together with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonie Konstanz. The new album “Danzon Cubano – Live in Viersen” was released in May 2019. A live recording from the concert with the Marialy Pacheco Trio and the WDR Funkhausorchester under the direction of Gordon Hamilton at the International Jazz Festival in Viersen. In summer 2019, Marialy appeared at renowned festivals across Europe, such as the 9Hills Festival in Poland, the
Rheingau Music Festival, the Stuttgart Jazz Days and at the Festival at Schloss Ettersburg. In August and September 2019, Marialy debuted in the USA with concerts in Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, at the legendary Jazz Club Birdland in New York, and at the renowned Detroit Jazz Festival. In October 2019, she presented a few exclusive concerts in a duo with Max Mutzke in sold-out concert halls.

At the end of November 2019, she debuted at the legendary “Martinique Jazz Festival” at the sold-out “Tropiques Atrium” in Fort-de-France. Despite Corona, Marialy was able to give a few exclusive concerts in 2020 and performed, among others, in a duo with Max Mutzke at the Leverkusen Jazz Days, or also as a soloist with the program “Danzon Cubano” at the Orchestra of the Coburg State Theater.

In 2021, she also gave concerts together with Max Mutzke at the Kissinger Sommer, at the Dresden Music Festival and at the Cultural Summer North Hesse. Together with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, she presented her own piano concerto “Danzon Cubano” for the first time in October. In December 2021, she performed in a duo with Rhani Krija as part of the “Piano Jazz Festival” in Ystad.

In 2022 and 2023, she performed for the first time in a duo with Max Mutzke in the context of the Hitzacker Music Week, at the Mosel Music Festival and in the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, as part of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. In duo with Omar Sosa at Jazzbaltica, at the Enter Enea Festival in Poznan, as well as at the Jazz Festival in Rome. In 2022, two major album releases followed: MANOS, a live duo album with Cuban pianist Omar Sosa, released in April, and “RELOAD,” a trio album presenting the music and culture of Cuba and Latin America. Guests include, among others, Avishai Cohen (double bass), Nils Wülker (trumpet), Karl Perazzo (timbales) and Rhani Krija (percussion).

In 2024, she will again perform at renowned international festivals, concert halls, and clubs, including at the Heidelberg Spring, at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, with the State Philharmonic Rheinland-Pfalz in Ludwigshafen, and at festivals in Madrid, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, and Fuerteventura. In November 2024, she will debut in Brazil and Argentina and perform in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, and Buenos Aires. In December, she will delight the audience with her trio at the newly opened London club “Soul Mama.”

Marialy Pacheco is the only female pianist among the currently high-profile Cuban star pianists like Chucho Valdes, Roberto Fonseca, Omar Sosa, or Gonzalo Rubalcaba.

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