Whistling Woods Bandra base in association with The Bombay Jazz Club presents An evening of flamenco music

Featuring:

Emmanuel Simon (Percussion)

Alessandro Martin (Guitar)

Artist:

1) Emmanuel Simon is a versatile musician from Paris, France, acting in Jazz, Latin-American, World, Fusion, and other Western modern music fields as well as composing for various occasions.

Trained as a Western classical pianist, he has completed his academic and university degrees in music theory, ear training and sight reading, Western musicology, Western classical and modern music. He has also graduated from a M.A. degree of Indian Instrumental Music from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, as a Gold Medalist and now attending a PhD. on Bengali folk percussion. After his piano studies, he got compelled to study the incredible variety of world music, rhythms and percussion. He is nowadays a multi-percussionist, having knowledge in various musical cultures, specializing in Western, West African, Afro-Cuban and north Indian percussion, getting taalim for the latter from the legendary tabla virtuoso late Pandit Shankar Ghosh and world-famous Maestro Bickram Ghosh.

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He is a founder member, band leader and musical director of THE LATINATION, one of India's only Latin-jazz bands.

2)Alessandro Martin, born in Italy (Como) in 1980, is a flamenco guitar player arranger and composer. 

He starts studying guitar as a 8 years old child and in the year 2000 join the Rotterdam Conservatorium studying under the guidance of Maestro Paco Peña and graduating in the year 2006 with a bachelor of Flamenco guitar.

From 2007 he starts living in Jerez de la Frontera where he works in the academy of dancer Manuela Carpio and continue his studies with Maestro Jose Luis Balao. 

During this year he works in various project alongside with some renewed artist such as Paco Peña, Angel Muñoz, Ramon Martinez, David Pino, Mara Rey, Eva De dios, Manuela Carpio, Juanillorro, Jose Mendez or Jesus Alvarez to name a few.

From 2010 he works as music director in different flamenco company of north Italy and performs in many theatres and festivals such as Forum di Assago in Milan, Teatro Sociale in Como or Teatro Zandonai.

In 2012 he works for a Tablao Flamenco in Marrakech, accompanying daily singers and dancers. 

The following year he start working on his solo project recording his first album by the name of “Mi Ispiracion” 

He often travels to Mexico and central American countries to perform and learn the local music culture and recently he travels to India where is working on a new project with local and international musicians.

Alongside performing music world-wide he enjoys teaching and giving workshop on a regular base.