César Vidal Rojas

In the summer of 2015, I saw probably one of the best jazz concerts I have ever seen. Every year until 2018, the Providencia International Jazz Festival was held, with 3 nights of jazz with national and international artists. That year I was lucky to see the Chilean saxophonist based in New York, Melissa Aldana, according to many (including me) one of the best current saxophonists in the world. Melissa born in 1988, daughter of the important teacher and saxophonist Marcos Aldana, starts to play saxophone at 5 years old. Already young and very talented, she participes with different national jazz ensembles. Melissa went to study in the United States in 2007 at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she began to rub shoulders and play with established jazz such as George Garzone, George Coleman and Francisco Mela, among others. In 2013, at the age of 23, Melissa won the “Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition”, becoming one of the best saxophonists...

  Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Hi everyone! Today I’m going to talk you a little bit about beautiful Amsterdam, in The Netherlands. I would love to visit this particular place, first of all for its famous and important conservatory. I'm a kind of  nerd, and after my 7-year career (and my current last semester!) I would love to continue my musical studies at that conservatory, because a particular teacher with whom I would like to study teaches there. On the other hand, I would love to visit some interesting places, like the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh museum, or listen something in Bimhuis (a kind of Jazz and improvised music concert hall, because I love and play Jazz too.) And the last and not least for that!!! I've read about the beer culture (a beer lover too haha) and, not as important in the matter as its Belgian neighbors, on south, Amsterdam and The Netherlands in general, has a very rich and interesting beer culture ... and that interests me a lot jijiji. I hope we ca...