I am a composer and guitarist from Latvia, Riga based in Cologne, Germany, who is specialised in different kinds of music. I draw my main influences from jazz, classical music, jazz fusion and post-rock.

In 2022 I moved to Cologne, Germany to study Jazz Composition MM program at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln

2018-2022 I studied jazz guitar performance in Latvian music academy BA program (Jāzepa Vītola Latvijas Mūzikas akadēmija) 

Also I studied music at the Dynamic Records Music School music production and sound engineering. (2016-2017)

My musical education has thus far consisted of taking private guitar lessons and attending Ventspils Music College’s (Ventspils Mūzikas vidusskola) pop and jazz guitar program (2013-2016).

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Leo Genovese was born in Venado Tuerto, Argentina in the 1970s, amid the psychedelic sound and language of his generation. After studying classical and contemporary music in his homeland, he moved to Boston to do the jazz thing.

He currently leads a band called The Chromatic Gauchos, a powerful avant-garde ensemble, and is a co-founder of the group The Sewer Ratz, a band that chases the non-playing music practice. These days, Leo tours with the Esperanza Spalding´s band.Long time cohort of Esperanza Spalding has Leo globe-trotting playing all kinds of venues, from Carnegie Hall to under a tree at a side of a non-existent road.

Leo bakes bread, directs amateur films, owns cassettes, loves the sun and is currently teaching himself how to play the saxophone.

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