Fri Sep 25
Dani Cortaza - Argentinian Jazz Series
7PM / $40 | $7 Fees Get Tickets
Dani Cortaza
Dani Cortaza has more than three decades of artistic life to his credit. He specializes in Brazilian and Latin jazz and South American folklore, in both nylon and electric jazz guitar. He also performs, composes and arranges Latin American folk music.
Hailing from both Argentina and Paraguay, Dani has performed in many prestigious concert venues around the world, namely in Japan, Europe, South America and the United States. He has appeared with international and local musicians, and with his own band at Blues Alley, the Smithsonian Jazz Cafe, Silver Spring Jazz Festival (2007, 2008, 2016, 2023), the Kennedy Center and Gala Theater, just to name a few venues.
In 2007, Dani was the recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council’s award for Artistic Excellence in Music Performance. Once again in 2017, Dani received a Maryland State Arts Council’s award for Artistic Excellence in World Music Composition.
Throughout his musical career, Dani has appeared in more than 30 recordings, not only as guitarist, but also as arranger and producer. One of Dani’s ongoing projects is creating new compositions and arrangements of South American folk music combined with jazz elements. Based on this work, in August, 2012, he received a grant from FONDEC (Paraguayan Endowment for the Arts) to produce his CD Together/Oñondivé, which includes some of his own compositions and arrangements of Paraguayan and South American folk music combined with elements of jazz. The CD was recorded and mixed in Cortaza’s own professional studio InTune Recording based in Adelphi, MD.
In 2014, Dani and his group were invited by the US State Department to represent the United States at the Asunción Jazz Festival in Paraguay, including a tour of several cities. During the same trip, the group played the release concerts for the CD Together/Oñondivé in Asunción and Buenos Aires.
In 2020, Dani Cortaza was invited as featured artist with the Pan American Symphony Orchestra to appear at the Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater in Washington DC, in a concert that celebrated the music of Tom Jobim from Brasil.
Dani is currently working on a new CD of South American folk music for jazz quartet and string orchestra, which is being recorded at ION Studio in Buenos Aires and InTune Recording in Adelphi, MD.
Co-Presented with the Embassy of Argentina
7PM / $40 | $7 Fees Get Tickets
1. Final sale, no refunds, not transferable.
2. $15 food/beverage minimum per person not included in ticket price.
3. Seating first come at the door. Doors open 6 PM & 8:45 PM respectively Monday thru Saturday, and 4:30 PM & 7:15 PM Sundays.
4. No Photography or Recording of any kind during the performance.
5. Keep conversation to a minimum during the performance.