Gregory Colina
Gregory Colina

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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