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Michael Echaniz is one of the brightest musicians, composers, and artists emerging from the West Coast jazz scene. A pianist since the age of five, Michael has studied music at the California Jazz Conservatory and CalArts. He has played and recorded with such renowned artists as Jeff Denson, Romain Pilon, Wu Man, Gerald Cleaver, Paul McCandless, Scott Amendola, Erik Jekabson’s Electric Squeezebox Orchestra, Dillon Vado, Alan Hall and Friction Quartet. He has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the hyper-competitive 2022 International Songwriting Competition, a New Music Workshop at the 2022 International Jazz Composers’ Symposium (ISJAC) and the prestigious 2021 ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award. Michael’s forward-thinking original music embraces rhythmic complexity, haunting melodicism, fluidity between improvisation and through-composition, influence from disparate styles of classical, world, and pop music, and deep emotional connection.
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