Italian singer and composer // projects: A Sound's A Million Shapes / Cordas / Duke Ellington Sound Of Love / Alessia Obino Quartet / Tommaso Cappellato & Astral Travel "Cosm'ethic"

María Esteban, nace en Málaga. Su pasión por la música le lleva a iniciar su carrera artística desde joven con distintos grupos musicales.

A lo largo de todos estos años se ha formado con diferentes músicos del panorama jazzístico, a través de seminarios y masterclasses; algunos de ellos: Deborah Carter, Ernesto Aurigac, Celeste Alías, Marco Mezquida, Judy Nieckmack, Stacy Kent…

Ha participado en diversos festivales tales como:

- V Festival Internacional de música de cine de Málaga (MOSMA), junto con la Filarmónica de Málaga
- Tour Spain “Slowly Speeding” Kim Lenz & Mario Cobo
- The Baja Bop Red Hot Rockin Festival (Los Ángeles)
- Festival Nájera Jazz (Antequera, Málaga)
- Rock this town (Solothurn, Suiza)
- 24º Rocking Race Jamboree (Torremolinos, Málaga)
-26º  Festival Internacional de Jazz de Málaga
-Sintonizza Festival (Barcelona)
-8º Festival Rencontres du 9ème Art (Aix-en-Provence, Francia)
-Festival Enclave de agua 2016 (Soria)
-19º Festival de cine de Málaga MAF
-39º Festival de Jazz Getxo
-Noches Creativas de Diputación Málaga
-1er premio en Festival Portón del Jazz 2014
-Programa “Coordenadas Polares” (Caja Burgos)

Ha trabajado como corista en la gira de Kim Lenz & Mario Cobo: «Slowly Speeding Tour» (2019). Durante 4 años fue cantante del proyecto de Red Rombo, liderado por el excontrabajista de Muchachito Bombo Infierno, Gerard Mases.

Actualmente lidera su proprio proyecto: María Esteban Quintet con el que presentará un nuevo espectáculo llamado Voces Veladas vinculado a la vida de diferentes mujeres compositoras y cantantes de jazz.

Singer, pianist, composer and musical producer of jazz and Latin American music.
She began her musical studies with the Suzuki Method at age 4 at the Municipal School of Music "Juan Bautista Massa". Then, in the same institution, complete the Jazz Course given by Leonardo Piantino, Luciano Ruggieri, Mariano Loiacono and Carlos Cassaza, and is in the Workshop of the Interpretation of the Popular Song of Jorge Fandermole, Ethel Koffman and Leonel Luquez. She is a student of the piano degree at the University Nacionality of Rosario and takes private classes with Juan Cruz de Urquiza and Ernesto Jodos in Buenos Aires. At the age of 16, she starts singing along with Luján Perotti, together with Graciela Mozzoni (one of the most important teachers worldwide)
 
In 2015 she was selected as singer of the Ensemble by Juan Cruz de Urquiza as part of the International Jazz Festival of Buenos Aires, where she was invited to participate in the following years, in the Ensamble by Mariano Loiacono and in the Works Shops of Roxana Amed with Michelle Weir and Joey Blake.
 
Since 2013, she is a pianist and singer of the ska jazz group Río Chino, with which she records a disc in 2016, broadcast on tours in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Currently, she is also the pianist of the renowned group of the city, Cool Confusion.
 
In her approaches to Latin American music, in 2016 he forms "Especies Negras" with which she debuted at the Theater of Commerce Employees (Rosario) and currently performs at festivals of great tradition in the country.
 
In March 2018 she is the second winner of the "I Give You a Song" (Te Doy Una Canción, Rosario) promoted by the Municipal Women's Institute and gives a concert with her solo project on the Spanish Park Steps next to Miss Bolivia as part of the International Day of the woman.
 
In April of 2018, she is invited, together with Especies Negras, to participate in the 48th Popular Music Festival of the NEA (Reconquista), sharing the stage with great musicians such as Ramón Ayala, Oscar Giunta, among others.
As a teacher, she teaches music workshops for children in COAD, in different Cultural Centers of the city and offers private singing and piano lessons. In 2017, she created her own musical production company "China Roldán Producciones" with which she manages events across the country to acclaimed groups from the national scene. She works as a musician with artists like Hugo Lobo (Dancing Mood), Mr Faya (Holland), Rodrigo de la Serna, among others. Currently, she is developing her solo project in voice and piano with a gender perspective defending the spaces of women artists and traveling through different countries in Latin America such as Cuba, Brazil and Uruguay.

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