El Paìs Maravillas

CD El Paìs Maravillas Harold Lopez Nussa Trio

Not yet 30, Harold Lopez Nussa was born in Havana in a family of musicians who offered him a double French and Cuban education. After a solid classical training at the conservatory, winning numerous contests, he then opens up to the popular music. Jazz becomes his passion. And from the age of 20 he is fully dedicated to Jazz; playing solo, trio or quartet in the Havana clubs. His first tour brings him to some prestigious places, from Verona to London, from Vienna to Paris... In 2005 he wins the "piano solo contest" of the Montreux Jazz Festival, an award that enables him to record his first solo album "Sobre el Atelier". Critics immediately describe him as a "gifted jazz musician". In 2007, he performs alongside with the diva Omara Portuondo for her "Gracias" tour
and continues parallely to perform with his trio, his favourite format, which he will optimize for his second solo album "Herencia" ("Legacy") released in March 2009 on world village. Today, still backed by his young brother, a drum prodigy, doublebass player Felipe Cabrera and lifted by master saxophonist David Sanchez, he is crossing a new step. On "El País de las Maravillas", recorded at studios La Buissonne in November 2010, Harold Lopez Nussa is asserting himself as a stylish composer and a powerful pianist whose technical abilities joined to a high sensitivity transcend his cubanity. He is standing in the heart of the jazz trend of today.