Described by The Guardian as “ a phenomenal, dynamic, imaginative. An outstanding pianist.” ABEL MARCEL is a musical mastermind and a passionate thinker. A pianist, composer, educator and independent researcher active across multiple musical communities has built himself an identity as a singular and versatile voice, and shape-shifting figure in 21st-century music. He has been praised by the Music Republic Magazine as “equally at home with the european and american jazz traditions as he is with his own cuban roots”

Abel’s musical language stood and stands for continued fresh and thrilling exploration on steady ground of and deep rootedness in the rhythmic traditions of the Caribbean and Afro Caribbean, the Cuban creative music movement of the 50s and 70s (Renovación Musical), and the lineage of composer-pianists from Manuel Saumell and María Cervantes to Numidia Vaillant and Tania Leon.
An outstanding pianist.”
The Guardian
A tireless collaborator, and dance lover he has written music for the choreographers Jan Linkens and the ballet start Carlos Acosta, remixed classic recordings of Theodor Milkov, Igor Groupman and Antoine Herrera Kessel, joined forces with musicians such as Yuri Buenaventura, David Murray, Changuito, Saul Williams, Nasheet Waits, Jorge Reyes, and and developed interdisciplinary work with Tamara Gispert, Francisco Calderón, Hannah Bates Nueny Herrero, Nadia Reyes
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Nostalgia de un Sueño Live at Vpro Vrije Geluiden. Bimhuis
Recorded in February 2012. on air Sunday March 6th