{"id":1610,"date":"2023-10-18T11:58:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T15:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/?post_type=artists&#038;p=1610"},"modified":"2023-11-15T21:59:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T02:59:12","slug":"edmar-castaneda","status":"publish","type":"artists","link":"https:\/\/bnatural.nyc\/artists\/edmar-castaneda\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmar Casta\u00f1eda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Edmar Casta\u00f1eda<\/strong>\u00a0was nominated for a Latin Grammy in the category \u201cBest Latin Jazz Album\u201d with his album\u00a0<em>Family<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In fall 2021, Casta\u00f1eda\u2019s performance will be heard in Disney\u2019s latest film,\u00a0<em>Encanto<\/em>\u00a0(Release date: November 24, 2021), which features original songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Casta\u00f1eda acts on the soundtrack and serves as a music consultant on Encanto.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arriving in the United States in 1994, Colombian-born Edmar Casta\u00f1eda made a name for himself as the preeminent jazz harp virtuoso. Casta\u00f1eda brings forth a brilliance that beautifully merges the jazz tradition with a diverse set of styles and genres while bringing unbridled attention to a somewhat unfamiliar instrument: the harp. Singlehandedly, Casta\u00f1eda has cemented the harp\u2019s place in jazz with innovative technique and heartfelt creativity from a wealth of formidable collaborations with music titans such as Wynton Marsalis, Bela Fleck, John Scofield, Ricki Lee Jones, Hiromi, Pedrito Martinez, Marcus Miller, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Ivan Lins, The Yellowjackets, Paco De Lucia, and Paquito D\u2019Rivera.<\/p>\n<p>In the same breath as the Yo-Yo Ma\u2019s of the world, Casta\u00f1eda fearlessly stuns audiences, musicians, and critics alike with his incredible talents as a player and composer. NPR\u2019s \u201cFresh Air\u201d touts, \u201c\u2026his technique is the real astonishment. Casta\u00f1eda juggles lead, rhythm and bass lines, using a variety of hard and soft string attacks to keep those voices distinct \u2014 all without giving up the groove\u2026His amazing technique\u2026raises the bar for every harpist.\u201d The New York Times notes, \u201c\u2026Castaneda\u2026 engage[s] modern jazz in ways that honor\u2026cultural origins, and [he has] the capacity to astonish by virtue of [his] fingerstyle technique.\u201d Moses Sumney highlights his \u201c5 Favorite NPR \u201cTiny Desk Concerts\u201d and says, \u201cMy brain cracked open when I first saw this. Some classical instruments are so ingrained in our heads for sounding one way; Edmar restructures what we know of harp, defiantly expanding the bounds of the instrument.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Casta\u00f1eda follows up seven acclaimed albums (Cuarto de Colores; Entre Cuerdas; Double Portion; Live at the Jazz Standard; Live In Montreal; Harp vs. Harp; Family ) with his latest recording project, Viento Sur, with a nine-person ensemble of acclaimed global musicians from Switzerland, Brazil, Cuba, Israel, Chile, USA, Argentina, and Colombia. An array of compositions on Viento Sur are commissioned by American Chamber Music from the \u201cNew Jazz Works Grant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Casta\u00f1eda\u2019s renowned albums as a bandleader are interchanged with awe-inspiring symphonic and big-band\u00a0works likes Wynton Marsalis Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Cl\u00e1ssica de Espinho and the S\u00e3o Paulo Jazz Symphony Orchestra, and chamber pieces for the Israel Camerata Jerusalem and the Orquestra Sinf\u00f3nica Nacional de Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>He was ushered into the jazz community by Paquito D\u2019Rivera, who recognized Casta\u00f1eda\u2019s passion and took the young harpist under his wing. D\u2019Rivera has called him \u201can enormous talent\u2026 [Edmar] has the versatility and the enchanting charisma of a musician who has taken his harp out of the shadow to become one of the most original musicians from the Big Apple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Colombian plays the harp like hardly anyone else on earth. His hands, seemingly powered by two different people, produce a totally unique, symphonic fullness of sound, a rapid-fire of chords, balance of melodic figures and drive, served with euphoric Latin American rhythms, and the improvisatory freedom of a trained jazz musician\u2026captivating virtuosity, but in no way only virtuosity for its own sake,\u201d says Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edmar Casta\u00f1eda\u00a0was nominated for a Latin Grammy in the category \u201cBest Latin Jazz Album\u201d with his album\u00a0Family. In fall 2021, Casta\u00f1eda\u2019s performance will be heard in Disney\u2019s latest film,\u00a0Encanto\u00a0(Release date: November 24, 2021), which features original songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Casta\u00f1eda acts on the soundtrack and serves as a music consultant on Encanto. 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