ABOUT

Fabian Araya (Buenos Aires, 1986). Graduated in Contemporary Music  Composition and Conducting, by the National University of Arts of Buenos Aires, and in Music Teaching, by the Astor Piazzolla Conservatory. He began his career as a professional musician at the age of fourteen with two performances at the Colon Theater in Buenos Aires. In his first years of career, he shared the stage with renowned musicians such as Yann Tiersen (France), Hilliard Green (United States), George Haslam (England) and Agustín Pereyra Lucena (Argentina), and made national and South American tours. At the same time, he dedicated himself to the creation of contemporary and experimental works, whose focus was on the combination of artistic languages from different disciplines, such as dance, literature and visual arts. Since 2012, he has worked as a conductor and arranger for different popular music ensembles (tango, chacarera, salsa and cumbia), as well as producing and composing incidental music for Fashion Films in New York. In 2014 he works in Paris as an ensemble director and arranger, establishing a strong connection to Europe, which led Araya to tour in Germany, France, Spain, Hungary and Portugal, where he currently resides. Launched in 2015, Fabián Araya's solo career has three edited albums, received with excellent reviews by the national and international press.