Marialy Pachecho

wieder in Ettesburg: diesmal solo! Die kubanische Pianistin wuchs in einer musikalischen Familie auf und erhielt schon früh klassischen Klavierunterricht am Conservatorio Alejandro García Caturla in Havanna. Mit 15 Jahren besuchte sie die Escula Nacional de Artes, worauf ein dreijähriges Kompositionsstudium bei Tulio Peramo am Instituto Superior de Artes in Havanna folgte. Sie ist die Gewinnerin des Montreux Solo Piano Competition. Marialy Pacheco lebt seit April 2013 in Deutschland und trat bereits bei renommierten nationalen und internationalen Festivals auf. In Ettersburg gastierte gemeinsam mit Max Mutzke.

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The biggest appreciation so far of Marialy Pacheco’s qualities has been the winning of the Montreux Jazzfestival Solo Piano Competition 2012. She is the first woman to win this prize in 15 years history of the competition. Born in Havana 1983, Marialy Pacheco was raised in a musical family and began piano studies from an early age at the Conservatorio Alejandro García Caturla. At 15 she attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes, followed by three years of composition studies under Tulio Peramo at the Instituto Superior de Artes in Havana. In 2002 she won the Cuban competition Jo-Jazz, with Grammy award-winner Chucho Valdes presiding over the jury. Two years later she recorded her first album “Bendiciones”. The pianist moved to Germany, toured through Europe – both solo and with her trio – and built international reputation. On the occasion of the 185-year-old jubilee of Bösendorfer, Marialy Pacheco guested in 2013 as the only Jazz-Act, beside classical stars like Valentina Lisitsa and Maria Mazo in the Musikverein Wien. In spring 2014, her new album "Introducing" was released. After several solo albums, it is a trio album, with Juan Camilo Villa Robles on bass and Miguel Altamar de la Torre on drums. As "special guests" she got the honor to get german trumpet player and Echo Jazz Winner Joo Kraus, even moroccan Rhani Krija, the Percussionist of STING. In August 2014, she gave her debut as classical pianist and showed her musical variety, when she performed Bach’s g-moll concerto with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Brisbane/Australia, conducted by Gustavo Gimeno Marialy Pacheco performed at national and international festivals like Montreux Jazz Festival. In May 2019 the new album "Danzon Cubano - Live in Viersen" was released. A live recording at the Viersen International Jazz Festival with the Marialy Pacheco Trio, the WDR Funkhausorchester and conductor Gordon Hamilton. In the summer of 2019, Marialy performed at well-known festivals in Europe, such as the 9Hills Festival in Poland, the Rheingau-Musik-Festival, Stuttgarter Jazztagen and the festival at Schloss Ettersburg. In August and September 2019, Marialy debuted for the first time in the US with concerts in Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, the legendary jazz club Birdland in New York, as well as the renowned Detroit Jazz Festival. The year 2022 followed with 2 major album releases: MANOS, a live Duo album with Cuban pianist Omar Sosa released in April and RELOAD, a Trio album celebrating the music and culture of cuba and Latin America featuring Avishai Cohen, Nils Wülker, Karl Perazzo, and Rhani Krija, released in October. Marialy Pacheco is the only female pianist among the currently popular Cuban star pianists such as Chucho Valdes, Roberto Fonseca, Omar Sosa and Gonzalo Rubalcaba.