Dorantes

The piano is flamenco and flamenco sounds again thanks to David Peña Dorantes. This musician Seville (Lebrija, 1969) has had the courage to successfully explore a path hitherto unknown in flamenco, but yes, without betraying the teachings of a family ancestry and with its own name in traditional Andalusian music. Although your family tree reveals its undeniable roots with flamenco (grandson of Mary The Perrata, son of Pedro Peña, Juan Peña nephew and relative Lebrijano Fernanda and Bernarda de Utrera), this pianist has managed to excite all on merit.

Scrupulous in the art, innovative perfect composition and execution, Dorantes is already a name in capitals in the world of flamenco piano.

Although his music began flirting with the hand of a guitar (with which even won several competitions as a child), at ten Dorantes became fascinated with the possibilities of the piano and then he studied at the Royal Conservatory Music.

Almost without realizing it, and as a teenager, Dorantes begins to break new ground in flamenco, introducing the piano, an instrument so far away from the traditional Andalusian rhythms and harmonies, rhythms and concepts, which were described and as futuristic. At 22 he made his debut in the Real Alcazar in the presence of the King of Spain, but not until seven years later, in 1998, when he sees his first rod light music, Orobroy, a disk agrees to criticism and the public and releasing Dorantes to the first line of flamenco music scene thanks to a peculiar way of understanding the composition. Praise his technical purists, fans applaud the courage of innovation and criticism, rather purist purist unanimous gets his feet .... "Dorantes took the Heavens Gypsies". Manuel Bohorquez. In December 1998 he was invited to the Jazz Plaza Festival in Havana with artists like Jack Johnette, Steve Turre, Roy Hargrove, Jane Bunnett, Michel Camilo, Danilo Perez and David Sanchez, From then baptize it as "the Flemish century "Machado Foundation and the award gives Demófilo new artist.

Dorantes piano manages to convey with the pinch and entrails of flamenco. Europe and Asia and claim it saturate Orobroy tours in France, England, Greece, Japan and Cuba. Orobroy is then recognized with the award Orobroy FLAMENCO HOY 1999 best instrumental album of the year.

During the next four years, the performances with your hard Orobroy heard around the world and shares the stage with top names in jazz, classical music and flamenco. Moreover, the title track to the album, Orobroy (thinking stalled), becomes a classic flamenco. Dorantes is not left on the road Orobroy explored in 2002 continues to surprise audiences and critics with a new twist. The piano chords of his clothing and instruments accurately Dorantes approaches to the sounds of the big bands. South Goldwyn, a disc recorded in Seville, Paris (France) and Sofia (Bulgaria), with more complex compositions and sounds reminiscent renewed classical romanticism. Thanks to Dorantes, ethnic instruments have the opportunity to sneak into Flemish creations. Again, criticism back cover of South praise and becomes the justification for walking for more than a hundred stages around the world. It will also be recognized with the award FLAMINGO SOUTH TODAY 2003 best instrumental album of the year. Moreover, the Seville Biennial recognizes the original work and Dorantes makes history with the achievement, in one show, the BEST SOLOIST giraldillo, giraldillo to BEST ORIGINAL, BEST SHOW Giraldillo and SPECIAL PUBLIC giraldillo that accredit as one of the best modern composers. With his work South, opens the WOMEX festival and World Flamenco Fair in 2003. In 2004, they release Flamingos Century, a DVD recorded live at the Festival Etnosur to over two thousand staff and where Dorantes their most famous plays. The Spain Critics Association awards and recognizes again FLAMENCO HOY Award 2004 Best Flamenco DVD of the Year. In 2005 performs the musical composition for orchestra, Lysistrata's work commissioned by the National Ballet of Tokyo and performed on behalf of Save of the Childrens charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London with El Cigala. In 2006 he returned to receive an acknowledgment of the Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla, giraldillo to "Magic Moment" for his performance with Miguel Poveda and Peppermint Eve. Have in 2007 the honor of performing the final concert of Flamenco Festival London in Seadler's Well Theatre and chords of your subject Orobroy are elected by the Andalusian Government for the advertising campaign of the New Andalusian Statute of Autonomy, the largest political event of the last 25 years.



In 2008 he made a successful live experience joining the Tokyo National Orchestra SYMPHONIC SOUTH representing his work, show that manages to move all present in each of their performances so we propose to return for the 2009 season.

To all this we must add his work as a producer and arranger, performing, among others, the musical direction and arrangements of the iconic production record in honor of Hon. D. Gabriel Garcia Marquez with texts written by him, "When Lebrijano sings, water is wet" awarded by the Foundation with the Demófilo Machado 2008 Best 06-08 Biennium production and Nominee MUSIC AWARDS 2009 and his role as film and television composer, Musicando entirely, among others, the Andalusian production, Ignacio Sanchez Mejias "Beyond Bullfighting" and performing the opening concert of the V European Film Festival. End 2008 and start acting WOMEX 2009 selected for Midem (Cannes, France) where he obtained an extraordinary success in MIDEM Talent Jazz scenarios, with Reconco the Ministry of Culture which gives the National Award "Young Creator 2009" through Public Foundation for Roma Culture Institute and inaugurating the IX Flamenco Festival USA in NY & Washington and Brusselas Flamenco Festival III in the BOSTON MUSIC, and is the first artist to bring flamenco piano these prestigious events. Also done in the same year, the musical director of Flamenco Symphony, a work conceived for Orchestra Etnosur which opens in front of more than 15,000 people with such success that stops in Madrid for 1 month at the Coliseum Theatre. In 2010 Dorantes is recognized as one of the best creative Spanish, with plenty of cultural encounters and contemporary performing proposals such as that made by the Prime Minister of Taiko in Japan D. HAYASHI Eitetsu premiered at the National Theatre in Tokyo in January 2010 and reached Seville for flamenco biennial in that time in history primea the Japanese and Flamenco Daikos be embraced in a show that will be talking about. He was invited to the prestigious MONTREAL JAZZ FESTIVAL Latino section to inaugurate the festival and especially recommended for its director Andre Menard. Also in this year and next to NOA tour of Spain in the best national festivals.

DORANTES AND OTHER ARTISTS

Leading artists in the international music scene have collaborated with David Peña Dorantes, The Wicker, Antonio Canales, Rafael Amargo (original music show "A three-way"), Antonio el Pipa (who also composed the music for his acclaimed show ( Passion and Law), Eva La Peppermint, Israel Galván (for whom he wrote the play Lysistrata) Rocio Molina, Belén Maya, Joaquin Grilo, Lola Greco, Olga Periclet, Pastora Galván and the Ballet Argentino "Hispania" dance their compositions;

Singers and singers like Enrique Morente, Esperanza Fernandez, Paco Fernandez, The Lebrijano, Lole Montoya, Alba Molina, Susheela Raman, El Barrio, El Pele, Jose Merce, Miguel Poveda, Fernando Earthquake, Diego Carrasco, Rafael de Utrera, José Valencia, Perrate Thomas, Ines Bacan, Haze, or Archangel Chiquetete have worked with pianist; musicians like Hevia, Gerardo Nuñez, Cañizares, Jorge Pardo, Carlos Benavent, Tino Di Gerardo, Keshab Showdhury Canti, Michael Camilo, Chucho Valdes, Randy Newman, Lizza Minelli, Gloria Gaynor, Theodosii Spassov, Tomas Gubitsh, Vicente Amigo, Pitingo, Carmen Cortes, Diego "El Cigala", Estrella Morente and Tomatito have shared the stage and stage and showed their passion for the compositions of this great musician names like Chick Corea, Renaud Garcia - Fons, Ara Malikian, Wim Mertens, Sir. Yeduhi Menujín or recognized French singer Christophe, who for his latest CD "It must to be to sing" Dorantes required for the production and musical arrangements of various themes. CLASSIC AS THE NATIONAL ORCHESTRA TOKYO NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA SOFIA DE ANDALUCIA FILOARMONICA ORCHESTRA, THE SYMPHONY OF MALAGA, Celtiberia QUARTET, THE ORCHESTRA OF CORDOBA, ... HAVE TOUCHED YOUR COMPOSITIONS AND HAS BEEN INVITED TO SHARE STAGE NEAR MUSIC WORLD MUSICIANS AS MUSAFIR, TOMAS Gubitsch, THEODOSSI Spasov, RENAUD GARCIA-FONS, caravanserai ... The National Ballet of Spain offers a special collaboration, as a guest artist with Aida Gomez and Antonio Canales, dancing their creations and who performed over forty roles in the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid and venues around the world have participated in the evolution of this amazing musician and creator. .... Sadler `s Wells (London), Midem (Cannes), Royal Albert Hall (London), Skirball Theater (NY), Lisner Auditorium (Washington DC), BOZAR - PALACE OF FINE ARTS (Brussels), New National Theatre Tokyo, Sumida Thriphony Hall (Tokyo), Teatro Manzoni (Italy), Suzanne Dellal Center (Israel), Teatro Maestranza (Seville), Auditorio Nacional de Musica (Madrid), Palau de la Música (Barcelona), Theatre Nouveau Monde (Montreal ), Teatro Degollado (Mexico), Bulgaria Concert Hall (Sofia), Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome), Rotterdamse Schouwburg (Netherlands), Nuevo Teatro Ateneo (Buenos Aires) and many more ...

With his debut album "Orobroy" published in 1998, he led the flamenco to new horizons, making the passage of the focus and eponymous disc a true classic, still relevant. With his second album, "On", published in 2002, he brought the piano, with its orchestration and virtuoso fingers in an unknown dimension. At this point, critics had already proclaimed Dorantes as the spokesman of Nuevo Flamenco which, without renouncing its origins, was brave, innovative and magnetic. "Sin muros! "(" Without walls " was so highly anticipated since it is only his third in fourteen Dorantes is for the occasion surrounded by the best current voice of Flamenco. Enrique Morente, Carmen Linares, Esperanza Fernández, Arcangel Miguel Poveda, Pedro Peña, Jose Merce, Noa. Modern in design but rooted in tradition, "Sin muros!" is a synergy of cultures and musical styles. synergy with Dorantes is a pioneer. It is indeed part the first generation of Gypsy musicians who crossed the bridge between oral transmission and higher musical education. It thus has the legitimacy, the ancestral knowledge of gypsies and the opening of the Western school wealth. His record is already impressive. Though mixing genres is often a risky game that may contain the dilution of pith and substance of the music (when it is hijacked by someone outside the Seraglio), Dorantes brilliantly avoids this pitfall and expresses its great singularity between flamenco, classical, contemporary, jazz. He seduced, surprised, carries unanimously by critics and the public. Overall, it has all the ingredients of today's best piano combos, flavor and authenticity more ., ease and less compromise For whatever labels, one thing is certain: Andalusian gypsy Dorantes is that extra touch can not be acquired in schools.

Sin Muros! is based on the belief That Music Has an overwhelming (and Almost miraculous) power to break down walls and prejudice, to open up doors and borders, to expand Broaden hearts and smiles and make locks and chains fall to the ground like ripe . fruit from the trees DORANTES knows That music is an explosion of good sense, a momentary deal with divinity, the only valid response to some questions.