Juan Galiardo, Pete Komor, Rod Oughton

Juan Galiardo (piano)

Born in Seville, Juan Galiardo graduated from Cadiz University and then the Berklee College of Music in Boston (2004). Today, he is a member of an acclaimed jazz ensemble on the Spanish scene, the Arturo Serra Quartet, a musical partnership playing throughout Europe, and who toured Wales in 2013 (as part of an ACW project ‘España Cymru’, organised by Brecon Jazz Club and Jazz Live Cymru).

Galiardo has performed with international US artists including saxophonists Donny McCaslin and Jerry Bergonzi (with whom he has toured and recorded) and has performed in the USA, Phillippines, Japan as well as UK.

At home in Andalucia, Juan teaches jazz piano, plays regular concerts, festivals and clubs, with regular appearances at Gibraltar jazz club, and organises the annual 'International Jazz Workshop' at Cadiz University.

The musicians accompanying Juan Galiardo are leading graduates of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama specialist Jazz Performance degree programme:

Pete Komor (double bass) is based in South Wales and leads his own Septet, also playing regularly with the Teddy Smith Big Band and the Tripp Ensemble. Recently, he toured with the Mañana Collective featuring visiting Cuban flautist Javier Zalba (Buena Vista Social Club, Irakere) and his son Jose Zalba Smith. Pete played a series of jazz gigs in Switzerland last year and is also part of the latest recording by trumpeter Tom Syson.

Rod Oughton (drums) has performed alongside many jazz greats including Norma Winstone, Soweto Kinch, Kenny Wheeler, Iain Bellamy, Huw Warren and others, and has also appeared at leading UK venues such as Ronnie Scott's and Vortex. He has studied with James Maddren (Kit Downs Trio) and, as a member of the National Youth Jazz Collective, worked with Issie Barratt and Steve Waterman amongst others.