Rocío Giménez López

ROCÍO GIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ (Argentina, 1983) is a pianist, composer and improviser, graduated from the Provincial School of Music of the city of Rosario. Later he focused on interpretation and improvisation within the language of jazz by attending piano lessons with Ernesto Jodos, Leo Genovese, Craig Taborn and Marilyn Crispell. He has also attended workshops and workshops given by Frank Calberg, John Stowell, Mark Helias, George Garzone, Benoit Delbecq and Kris Davis, among others. In 2015 he won a scholarship granted by the National Endowment for the Arts to participate in the III Third National Meeting of Composition and Improvisation, in Bariloche. In 2016 he founded the collective and festival of composers/improvisers CRUCES SONOROS, which brings together representatives of different musical genres promoting the development of activities related to original music and its meeting point with individual and collective improvisation. In 2017, she won a training scholarship, which gave her the opportunity to study with pianist Marilyn Crispell in Woodstock, USA. She was also invited to open Ravi Coltrane's concert in Rosario. In 2018 she was chosen as Revelation Musician for her album “Deseos Múltiples” in the national survey of journalists carried out by the Jazz magazine El Intruso. In 2019 he participates with his group of original compositions presenting the album at the Rosario Jazz Festival, at the Haroldo Conti Jazz Festival (BsAs) and at the Buenos Aires Jazz (Parque Centenario). He also toured Spain and France. In 2020 she is invited again to participate in Buenos Aires Jazz in a trio format (virtual concert at Usina del Arte). In 2021 he releases REUNION EN LA GRANJA (ICM records), an album that revisits the music of Ornette Coleman and Paul Motian, chosen by Dave Sumner as one of the twelve best albums of the year released on the BANDCAMP platform. The same year the FNA grants him a Creation scholarship that allows him to continue working on a composition project based on abstract photographs used as graphic scores (project in development). He currently works as a pianist and leader, in different musical projects within the cities of Rosario and Buenos Aires.

Discography as leader and co-leader:

"Deseos multiples” ROCÍO GIMÉNEZ LÓPEZ QUARTET (BlueArt/2018) 

“Chancho a rayas” Duet Bass/Giménez López (Tvl rec 2019) “

"Enero bajo el árbol ” PEZ BLOB (ICM/2020) “

"Reunión en la granja” GIMENEZ LOPEZ/BASS/SUAREZ/SCAMPINO (ICM/2021) 

"Un caos lúcido" Rocio Giménez López trio (BlueArt 2022)

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