Guatemala City, Guatemala
Rosse Aguilar. Guatemalan saxophonist, singer, educator, composer, author and arranger, active in the popular and contemporary music scene, and national and international jazz scene as a lecturer, teacher and performer, standing out as a highly versatile musician. She is currently the Academic Director of the Faculty of Music and Visual Arts of the Da Vinci University of Guatemala – UDV, serving also a professor at said institution for the undergraduate programs in musical performance, music production and music education, in the areas of saxophone, jazz singing, harmony and ear training. Artist for the Vandoren France and BG France brands. Member of the Friends or Art Foundation (Fundación Amigos del Arte - FUNDADELA), a non-profit organization that organices and carries out events such as the GuateJazz Festival, Jazz Camp Guatemala, among others.
She has written more than a dozen musical compositions in which she combines her jazz, Latin music, samba and flamenco influences, with some of which she has received awards and recognition in competitions such as the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, International Songwriting Competition, the International Contest Israel "We Sing to You", the AEI Guatemala National Composition Contest, the National Contest of Jazz Composition 2- JAZZ-13, and Estela Guatemala Awards 2017, among others. Some of her compositions have been used in soundtracks for Guatemalan independent film productions and other areas of the music industry.
She joined Imox Jazz ensemble in 2007, with whom she has recorded 4 albums and performed regularly at jazz festivals in Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala; Imox Jazz has shared stage and performed live with jazz artists such as Jason Marsalis, Dave Schoereder, Billy Drewes, Erick Marienthal, Rufus Reid, Andrea Motis, Arild Andersen, Bob Stoloff, LaFrae Sci, Eli Yamin, Camille Thurman, Nicky Denner & Cocomama, Cristelle Durandi, Andrew Stonerock, Dan Jonas, Sara Lieb, among others.
Throughout her unstoppable career as a music educator, she has also led educational projects: she founded and directed the contemporary music schools ATEMPO (2010) and INNATO (2016), where the dissemination of contemporary music and jazz has been promoted by through various study programs. As a soloist, she has recorded with leading artists and musical groups of various music genres and has participated in projects ranging from musical theater to Reality Shows along important television stations in Central America and Mexico as a vocal coach and judge, in addition to carrying out projects of realization. of Songbooks for contemporary popular music bands.
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