Pablo Rodríguez & Humberto Ríos, at the Amman Jazz Festival
Pablo & Humberto started their artistic journey as a duo in 2016 when they both coincided at the Codarts conservatory in Rotterdam where they studied classical music and jazz. They quickly discover a great musical connection and a fascination for exploring new sounds and musical textures from the angle of improvisation and various influences from traditional folk, jazz and classical music. During this period, they start to actively collaborate in various projects in the Dutch music scene.
In December 2017, they began the production of “Conversaciones”, a set of their own compositions that explores the fusion of jazz with folk and classical music influences to express an emotional bond between two islanders far from their roots. In mid-2018, they had the pleasure of presenting this repertoire on their first international tour, which took them to Holland, Germany, Zaragoza, Valencia and the Canary Islands, receiving excellent reviews from the public and the press.
With one foot in Spain and the other in the Netherlands, Canarian violinist Pablo Rodríguez is part of a new and exciting generation of string players who offer a unique sound enriched by jazz, flamenco, classical music and various other world music influences. This stylistic miscegenation fuels his curiosity to expand the musical possibilities of this historic instrument, re-imagining it in the form of a guitar, electric bass or percussion instrument using playing techniques that he has developed for himself.
Humberto Ríos is a Cuban folk musician, agricultural scientist and environmentalist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2010, for his work for biodiversity and sustainable development of Cuban agriculture.
