Gregory Colina

Footprints
Started April 29, 2021

Bio

MUSICAL EDUCATION

Berklee College Boston, Usa– Master Certificate in Orchestration and Arrangement for Film, Tv and Games
Conservatory R’Dam, Netherlands, Wereld Music Theory Piano, Composition, Arranging, String Ensemble with Jan Hartong.
Piano Class Suzuki– method Self Learning
HANON 60 Piano excersises method- Self Learning
Czerny Method Piano method-Self Learning
Private Trumpet and Theory class at age of 7 with my father Jacobo N.Colina

AWARDS , FELLOWSHIPS , GRANT S , RECORDS

Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nassau 2016
Best Arranger Tumba Festival 1995-2017 18 Times Tumba Record
Best Composer Tumba Festival 1998-2021 6 Times , 5 times n a row – A Tumba Festival Record
Won Tumba King Festival 7 times as arranger a Tumba Festival Record
Most Tumba’s Qualified (11) to the final– A Tumba Festival Record
Most Tumba Arranged ever in the festival di Tumba-Above (210) A Tumba Festival Record
2015 Tumba King and all 4 finalist– A Tumba record
2006 International Songwriting Festival Finalist(ISC)- USA– First Curacaoan
2008 International Songwriting Festival-( ISC )Winner
2021 ISC Semi-Finalist
Top 7 on top 100 Italy Jazz Radio
Top 20 on top 20 Pto.Rico Latin Beat Magazine

KEY MUSICAL POSITIONS HELD IN EUROPE NETHERLANDS DURING YEARS 1987 TILL 1994

Musical Director-Pianist Orquesta 110 Latin 1992-1993
Musical Director -Pianist Caribbean Express Latin 1990-1993
Pianist Vara TV Orkest Latin Contemporary 1993
Pianist Fra Fra Sound Surinam Jazz 1992
Pianist Up Side Down Jazz Rosa King q.e.p.d 1988
Musical Director -Pianist Orquesta Siembra Latin 1988
Pianist Orquesta Hasta Domingo Merengue 1991-1992
Pianist Cita Con el Pasado Bart Gruson 1990
Pianist Orquesta Latin Power Lesie Lopez 1990-1993
Pianist Orquesta Son Caracas Geraldo Rosales 1992-1993
House Band Pianist for Club Canecao A’dam 1991-1993
CD-Arranger Producer for more then 30 recordings
Pianist, Musical Director Trio Dushi Korsou ,The Hague with Pierre Lauffer Jr. (RIP) 1987-1990

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