BEA ASURMENDI Quintet

Presented by: Spicejazz Soho

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0	LONDON: SpiceJazz Soho
P	Wednesday 22nd March, 2023
N	7:00pm

Event information

Line up:
BEA ASURMENDI: Vocals
GIANLUCA CORONA: Guitar
FILIPPO GALLI: Drums
MILENA GRANCI: Piano
GIOVANNI CRESSERI: Bass


Bea Asurmendi is an upcoming vocalist and composer born in the Basque Country active in London’s live music scene. She has had the opportunity to collaborate with, among others, legendary jazz vocalist Norma Winstone, the internationally acclaimed jazz vocal group New York Voices and Latin Grammy Award winner concert and film composer Fernando Velázquez, with whom she has taken part in various international movie and theatre soundtracks. She is currently finishing her Masters Degree at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. 

Bea was lucky enough to meet four incredibly talented and inspiring musicians she deeply admires (Gianluca Corona, Giovanni Cresseri, Milena Granci and Filippo Galli) and formed the Bea Asurmendi Quintet. Together they wrote and recorded their debut album which will be released this spring. It presents an intimate, powerful and evocative collection of original songs (in Basque, Spanish and English) where World music, Contemporary Jazz and Folk meet - expect echoes of artists like Silvia Pérez Cruz, Josefine Cronholm, Ralph Towner and Al Di Meola. A soundscape that invites the listener to reflect upon sorrow, forgiveness, the importance of the present moment, family, death, self-love and the meaning of being a woman in our society.