Albert Vila Trio

Albert Vila : gitaar
Alex Gilson : bas
Daniël Jonkers : drums

Albert Vila
Albert Vila began his musical studies at the "Taller de Musics" Barcelona,
where he studied with Andy Rossety and J. Luis Gamez. In 1999 he was accepted
into the Conservatory of Amsterdam and followed the "jazz guitar performance"
program, there he had the opportunity to study with Jesse Van Ruller. In 2004
he was awarded with the first prize in the Dutch Jazz Competition for his
composition "Gym Jam". The following year the conservatory gave him a scholarship
to join the graduate program at the prestigious "Manhattan School of Music"
in New York, where he lessons from: Rodney Jones, Dave Liebman and Phil Markowitz.
In 2007 after completing his post graduate studies he decided to return to his
hometown, Barcelona. Once in Barcelona he decided to lead a new project:
Albert Vila quintet, with this group in 2007 won the national competition in
Donosti ”Debajazz”, and is in the same year that the record label Fresh Sound
New Talent released his debut album "Foreground music".
In 2011 released his second album on Fresh Sound New Talent, entitled "Tactile"
with seven new songs, Albert shows his work in Spain and in several European
countries, receiving a very warm welcome by both the public and the critics.
In 2012, Albert presented his latest album in trio formation, where he
surrounded himself by the great drummer Jorge Rossy and bassist Reinier
Elizarde , this time his repertoire will consist of well-known American
jazz standards. He was also awarded with the first prize at Jazz Hoeilaart
competition for one of his songs.
In 2014 Joins the Jazz Master program for composition at the Koninklijk
conservatory of Brussels.
In 2015 He was teaching and performing next to: Dave Douglas, Aaron
Goldberg, Greg Hutchinson and Reuben Rogers at the International Jalisco
Jazz Festival.
In February of 2016 he releases his most recent record “The Unquiet Sky”
recorded in NY and featuring some of the most original voices in the
nowadays jazz scene: Aaron Parks on piano , Doug Weiss on bass and Jeff
Ballard on drums.