Leonardo Prieto: piano & requinto
Pablo Rodríguez: violin
Loek van den Berg: sax
Johannes Fend: double bass
Daan Arets: drums
Philip Kukulies: conga

One day I was analyzing a piece by Debussy playing the chords on the piano and suddenly I found the riff of my first song which had a natural and unplanned jazz influence and sound.

Sow, to harvest.

Painting: ‘Los exploradores’ aut. Alejandra Varela Perera

Sembrando

09 Sembrando

Leonardo Prieto: piano & glass
Fuensanta Méndez, voice
Pablo Rodríguez: violin
Loek van den Berg: sax
Johannes Fend: double bass
Daan Arets: drums

pac, bac, tac, bac, tac ...  The sound of the tennis ball when it comes and goes.
Becoming a tennis player was my first dream. I played a tennis match with a former tennis tournament rival and transformed the game statistics into notes and sets of notes, these became my raw resource for composing this piece.

Painting: ‘Cucurumbé’ aut. Alejandra Varela Perera

08 Pac Pac Tac V

Leonardo Prieto: piano 
Fuensanta Méndez, voice
Pablo Rodríguez: violin
Loek van den Berg: sax
Johannes Fend: double bass
Daan Arets: drums

‘Spring with a broken corner´ written by Benedetti in one of my favorite books.
Living in Holland, spring took on another significance for me. Life opens, changes, reborns. 
This piece is created from graphics, drawings and indications I made to guide the music allowing it to be free at the same time. Let it change and recreate itself in a different way every time but allowing its own  course.

Painting: ‘Joaquín’ aut. Alejandra Varela Perera

07 Primavera

Leonardo Prieto: piano 
Loek van den Berg: sax
Johannes Fend: double bass
Daan Arets: drums
Philip Kukulies: udu bata, conga, minor percussion

For less ‘pyramidal’ and more fair societies.
‘Everything for everyone.’

Painting: ‘Pura Vida’ aut. Alejandra Varela Perera

06 Pirámide En J

Leonardo Prieto: tres cubano
Johannes Fend: double bass
Pablo Rodríguez: violin

Meet, exchange, converse...
Talk, but above all: listen.

Painting: ‘Pláticas matutinas 2.0’ aut. Alejandra Varela Perera

05 Interludio

Leonardo Prieto: piano & tres  cubano
Loek van den Berg: tenor sax & alto sax
Johannes Fend: double bass
Daan Arets: drums
Philip Kukulies: conga

In the fandangos (parties in which  son jarocho and huasteco are played and danced) there are sones that only women dance. Those are called ‘sones de a montón’ [heap sones] In a heap because many women go up on the tarima [platform for tap dancing] at the same time to stamp their feet, piled up one after the other.
In this piece I ‘pile up’ the notes, I make clusters of notes that are fastened together, dancing with each other.

Painting: ‘Muxe’ aut. Alejandra Varela Perera

04 De A Montón

Leonardo Prieto: requinto
Fuensanta Méndez, voice
Pablo Rodríguez: violin
Loek van den Berg: sax
Johannes Fend: double bass
Daan Arets: drums & bata drums
Philip Kukulies: bata drums

Aguanieve is a traditional son jarocho from the south of Veracruz, Mexico. This music has opened many doors to me and it's one of the reasons because I’m a  musician. This music is beautiful, poetic, deep, powerful and speaks of yesterday, today and the future. About our dreams, of what we are and want to be and that is why it gives us identity.
In this version I include an introduction and a coda written by me with open parts for improvisation that my ensemble interpreted in a magical way.

Painting: ‘Aguanieve’ aut. Alejandra Varela Perera

03 Aguanieve

Leonardo Prieto: piano & jarana
Loek van den Berg: sax
Johannes Fend: double bass
Daan Arets: drums
Philip Kukulies: conga

In Latin America there is an important tradition of cowboy canticles. Songs inspired by the hollering of the foramen while herding cattle. Powerful calls that can travel in the open field and go far away.
This piece reflects my influences as a jaranero and sonero. Music influenced by these hollers and including a bit of jazz groove, joining two worlds.

Painting: ‘Pláticas matutinas’ aut. Alejandra Varela Perera

02 Fue Un Ñú

'Leonardo Prieto: piano
Fuensanta Méndez, voice
Loek van den Berg: sax
Johannes Fend: double bass
Daan Arets: drums

distance, calm, still…

[I would like to be in your arms, on your distant horizon,
where love is reinvented, after crossing the ocean
after crossing the ocean, sailing on a board
I would like to cut for you a flower that will regain your confidence.]

Painting: ‘Las Tres hermanas’ aut. Alejandra Varela Perera

01 Horizonte Lejano

No te vayas

Electronic piece made with MAX. Mexico 2012

Ballenas

Estas viendo y no ves

Live version and premiere of my work "El pájaro que canta" for orchestra, dance and circus artist. Rotterdam 2018
Full version with video on You Tube

El Pájaro Que Canta I II III

"Mis Gaitas" is a piece I wrote inspired on the beautiful music from Colombia. More precisely the music from the Caribbean cost.
Colombian percussion: Ernesto Romero
Gaitas: Leonardo Prieto
Composition: Leonardo Prieto

Mis Gaitas

Composer/Performer/Teacher at Codarts. From Mexico in Rotterdam
Doble Master of Music Codarts: Piano & Composition (Codarts)
Bachelor degree: Composition (London Collage), Music Theory (London Collage), Sociology (UNAM)
VIII Grade piano Trinity Collage.
Classical music, traditional music, theater, electronics.
Projects: Leonardo Prieto, Son de Aquí, Tres Ríos,  & ArtBreak.

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