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View Curriculum Vitae Fernando Huergo [email protected] bassist, composer, educator www.fernandohuergomusic.com EDUCATION Berklee College of Music 1988 - 1992 Diploma in Music Performance New England Conservatory Coursework towards Graduate Diploma, Spring 1994 Semester TEACHING EXPERIENCE (selected) Berklee College of Music 1996 – present Professor, Bass Department (Rank of Professor since 2012) Duties include teaching private bass lessons and bass labs, Ensemble Department, adjunct since 2012. Tufts University 2001 – present Adjunct Faculty: Bass. Duties include individual bass lessons and adjudicating end of semester juries. Northeastern University 2018 – present Part-Time Lecturer: director of World Music Ensemble Faculty at Berklee Summer Programs abroad (selected) Berklee in Umbria Jazz, Italy 2012-2015, 2017-2019 Berklee in San Juan, Puerto Rico Artistic/Academic Director 2017, 2019 Faculty 2013-2016 Berklee in Valencia Summer Program 2013, 2015, 2016-17 Berklee in Los Angeles 2005, 2006 Berklee Workshops at Shanghai Conservatory Jazz Festival, China 2018 Berklee at Souza Lima Conservatory, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2012 Audition & Interview team: 2008 - present Duties include conducting auditions, evaluating performance, ear training, and reading level of candidates, as well as giving performances, clinics, and masterclasses on various topics. in USA: Boston, Miami, San Juan (Puerto Rico). Abroad: Mexico, Ecuador, Panama, Argentina, England, Germany, India, South Korea, Malaysia. DISCOGRAPHY (selected)* As Leader and co-leader: Fernando Huergo Big Band The Possibility of Change, Wherego Music (coming in Fall 2019) Fernando Huergo (Quintet): Hashtag, ZOHO Music, 2016 Suite en Celeste y Blanco, Wherego Music, 2012. Provinciano, Sunnyside Records, 2008. Live at the Regattabar, FreshSound World Jazz, 2004 Jazz Argentino, FreshSound World Jazz, 2002 Living These Times, Brownstone Records, 1996 Jinga Quintet: The Structure of Survival, FreshSound World Jazz, 2006 A Day Gone by, FreshSound World Jazz, 2004 Jinga Trio: Isla Tortuga, FreshSound World Jazz, 2004 New Beginnings, Seaside Recordings, 1997 Toucan Trio: Toucan Trio, Vee Records, 1996. [email protected] 617-620-3569 www.fernandohuergomusic.com 139 Perham Street #2, West Roxbury, MA As sideman, Fernando Huergo appears on over 160 albums, having recorded with Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos, Mehmet Sanlikol, Chayanne, Marta Gomez, MOZIK, El Eco, Macuco Quintet, Minino Garay, Pablo Ablanedo, Matthias Bublath, and many others*. *complete discography available online at www.fernandohuergomusic.com AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS Distinguished Faculty Award, Perfromance Division, Berklee College of Music, 2017 CMA (Chamber Music of America) & French American Cultural Exchange Grant Recipient, 2010 Faculty Recording Grant Recipient, Berklee College of Music, 2004, 2013, 2018. Festivals (selected) Umbria Jazz Festival, Umbria, Italy Heineken Jazz Festival, San Juan, Puerto Rico Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI JVC Jazz Festival, NYC Istanbul Jazz Festival, Istanbul, Turkey Costa Rica Jazz Festival, Costa Rica Guatemala Jazz Festival, Guatemala Panama Jazz Festival, Panama City, Panama Beantown Jazz Festival, Boston, MA Boston Globe Jazz Festival, Boston, MA Festival Mare de Agosto, Azores Islands, Portugal Festival de Jazz de Republica Dominicana, Santiago, Dominican Republic. Cordoba Jazz Festival, Cordoba, Argentina Buenos Aires International Jazz Fest, Buenos Aires, Argentina Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro, Bogotá, Colombia Cambridge Jazz Festival, Cambridge, MA La Mar de Musicas, Murcia, Spain Festival de Músicas de Cartagena, Colombia Saratoga Jazz Festival, NY Rochester International Jazz Fesival, NY Festival Cali-Cuento, Cali-Canto. Barcelona, Spain Barranquijazz, Barranquilla, Colombia Burlington Jazz Festival, Burlington, VT Stowe Jazz Festival, Stowe, VT Fernando Huergo has performed with: Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos Leo Blanco, Mehmet Sanlikol, El Eco, Daniel Ian Smith, Pablo Ablanedo, Macuco Quintet, Fernando Brandao, Yulia Musayelyan and Maxim Lubarsky. He has performed with the bands of Luciana Souza, Cesar Camargo Mariano Trio, Danilo Perez, Marta Gomez, Dave Valentín, Hendrick Meurkens, Dave Liebman, Dave Samuels, Joe Beck, and many others. He has played alongside great musicians such as Tom Harrell, Billy Pierce, Jerry Bergonzi, Dave Kikoski, Paquito D'Rivera, Randy Brecker, George Garzone, Rick Margitza, Kenny Werner, David Sanchez, Mike Mainieri, John Riley, Mike Clark, Don Braden, Mike Stern, Dave Weckl, Don Byron, Giovanni Hidalgo, Jerry Gonzalez, Horacio Hernandez, Bill O'Connell, Richie Flores, Paulo Braga, Romero Lubambo, Portinho, Claudio Roditi, Raul Carnota, Juan Quinteros, Lucho Hoyos, and with some of the most influential musicians of his generation like Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ben Monder, Mark Turner, Chris Cheek, Miguel Zenon, Jeff Ballard, Antonio Sanchez, Jorge Rossi, Seamus Blake and Dafnis Prieto. He has also performed and recorded with pop stars like Chayanne and Sandra Mihanovich. Press kit and full bio available at fernandohuergomusic.com .
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