ALBERT CALVO

Albert CalvoAlbert began his music career at the age of seven and showed great interest in playing guitar in particular. In no time he was replicating the popular songs of the day.

During his high school years Albert formed a band which successfully supported and played alongside Australian bands including Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, Ray Brown and the Whispers, Dinah Lee, and the Easybeats. Many of these big name artists were impressed with young Albert's original compositions and encouraged him to continue in music.

During the mid 1970s Albert moved to Sydney to persue a passion in classical guitar. The next 8 years proved to be a formative period in Albert's career as he studied with some of the world's finest classical musicians including Dr Peter Calvo, Turibio Santos, Oscar Caseres and John Williams.

During this time Albert performed in the premier performance of Australian Composer Peter Sculthorp's "Conquest of Mexico" which was headed by the late great jazz guitarist Joe Pass and classical guitar virtuoso John Williams. Albert then formed the Sydney Guitar Duo which went on to perform for Musica Viva all over Australia and New Zealand.

Albert then became artist in residence for the North Queensland Arts Company and began to turn his interest to jazz music. Switching back to electric guitar Albert became involved with Australian jazz great George Golla and many lessons thereafter saw a new personality emerge with a new direction. Composition and songwriting became an integral part of that new direction which has evolved into the recent recording of his debut CD "Pass it On".

Albert has been involved in both the production of soundtracks for television and the session music scene. Currently he works as a freelance musician playing at various jazz festivals and venues around Sydney and has also established his own business producing high quality backing tapes for other artists.

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