Inwood Art Works On Air

Inwood Art Works On Air


Live N' Local with Leonor Falcon and Juanma Trujillo

January 21, 2021

Join Aaron Simms and Jonathon Bell as they welcome guitarist Juanma Trujillo and violist Leonór Falcon on this episode of Inwood Art Works On Air Live N' Local. Leonor was classically trained in her native Venezuela at the Emil Friedman Conservatory and the Mozarteum de Caracas. She went on to study performance at the Conservatory of Geneva and jazz at Queens College, which brought her to New York City in 2010. Her bold collaborations with ensembles like Willie Colon’s band, the Sirius Quartet, OKwarteto, Camilia Meza and the Nectar Orchestra, and Sarah Bernstein’s Veer quartet have made her familiar to jazz, avant garde, classical, and Latin music fans across New York City. Her solo album, Imaga Mondo, was released in 2017 on Falcon Gumba Records.

Juanma Trujillo made his name as a guitarist playing with noted Venezuelan musicians like Domingo en Llamas and Gustavo Medina in and around his hometown of Caracas. In 2014 Juanma came to New York City after nine years on the Los Angeles music scene, and since then he’s broken and explored exciting new musical ground here in New York with artists like Francisco Mela, Mimi Jones, Nick Grinder, Rebecca Sullivan, and, of course, Leonór Falcon. His compositions have been called "challenging, clear, cohesive and profound.”