I'm a COMPOSER!  I write anything I want to write.  And I score film.  Piano is my main instrument.  "Genius composer."  (Chick Corea, multiple Grammy-winning jazz composer & pianist...RIP, Chick...)

“IT’S BEAUTIFUL ... beautiful. That’s ****ing amazing. You are so alive!!!!!”
(Stanley Clarke, Grammy-Winning Bassist, Producer, Composer)

“You have chops!”
(Steve Rochinski, Jazz Guitarist, Composer, Arranger, Author, Music Professor at Berklee College of Music)
 
“I am blown away with the raw talent of JoJo Zawawi ... makes me want to cry and laugh. I only hope that you know how outrageously talented you are. In the Middle-East when you hear or see something that is brilliant you shout Allah! Allah! That is what I am doing right now.”
(Elen Ghulam, Artist, Author, Flamenco Dancer)

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PRIZES
2012. Pablo Rubén Maldonado won the FLAMENCO HOY award for the best flamenco instrumental recording  in 2011 for his solo CD Fuera de la Realidad

2010. Composed the music for a video “La danza de los pinceles” directed by Charles Olsen, prizewinner of the the first Flamenco Film Festival organised by deflamenco.com. 

2007. Winner of the Award for Best Flamenco Composition at the Tenth Annual Dance and Choreography Competition in Madrid, Pablo Rubén Maldonado, described by the Washington Post as a ground-breaking artist and charismatic performer, is one of the most sought-after Flamenco musicians of his generation.

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