For Your Consideration

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

Havana Meets Harlem

Harlem Quartet

Featuring Aldo López-Gavilán 

Harlem Quartet advances diversity in classical music while engaging new audiences with varied repertoire that includes works by minority composers.

*ALBUM TRAILER*

*REVIEWS*

 “Harlem Quartet is one of the greatest string quartets I have ever heard.

They can play anything.”

-- Playbill

"Aldo López-Gavilán and Harlem Quartet are not only formidable virtuosic, but also exceeds in works that require extraordinary color and fascinating sounds." 

-- London Times

*ABOUT THE ALBUM*

After an impressive tour where audiences were left in awe and wanting more, the amazing collaboration between Aldo Lopez Gavilan and the Harlem Quartet is recorded and ready for the World. A wonderful collaboration produced by crossover specialist Jesus Florido Along with Ryan Streber (Recording Engineer), multi-Grammy® winner Rafa Sardina (Mixing) and Grammy® winner Eric Boulanger (Mastering), and Executive produced by Paul Carr-Rollitt and Nadeem Majdalany. This album is one for the ages. Deep felt, cinematic, fun, and groundbreaking.

*ABOUT HARLEM QUARTET*

Their mission to share their passion with a wider audience has taken them around the world; from a 2009 performance at The White House for President Obama and First Lady, Michelle Obama, to a highly successful tour of South Africa in 2012, and numerous venues in between. The musically versatile ensemble has performed with such distinguished artists as Itzhak Perlman, Ida Kavafian, Carter Brey, Fred Sherry, Misha Dichter, Jeremy Denk, and Paquito D’Rivera. The quartet also collaborated with jazz masters Chick Corea and Gary Burton on the album Hot House, a 2013 multi-Grammy® Award winning release.

*ABOUT ALDO LÓPEZ-GAVILÁN*

Aldo López-Gavilán was born in Cuba to family of internationally acclaimed classical musicians, his father a conductor and composer, his mother a concert pianist. At the age of five, he had written his first musical composition. His mother introduced the budding prodigy to the piano at the age of four, and he began formal piano studies at seven. His first international triumph came at the age of eleven when he won a Danny Kaye International Children’s Award, organized by UNICEF. He made his professional debut at age twelve with the Matanzas Symphony Orchestra and later went on to perform Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto with the National Symphonic Orchestra of Cuba. Parallel to his classical abilities, López-Gavilán developed remarkable improvisation skills. He was invited to perform in the world-famous Havana Jazz Festival with the legendary Chucho Valdés, who called him “simply a genius, a star.”

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