Pablo Fedele - Extended Bio
I was born in Ramos Mejía, Argentina and lived in the City of San Justo until I moved to the United States in 2010. Always interested in arts, I spent my childhood singing, inventing melodies and lyrics, improvising in family reunions and simulating playing piano on my mother’s sewing machine (that machine has a furniture similar to a little piano).
When I was 8 years old I started piano lessons. The Beatles were my major influence at the time and still are in many ways. In those years my grandfather gave me a cassette with music of the great guitar player Oscar Alemán. Listening to this great guitar player made me want to play jazz and blues guitar. At the same time I listened to Eric Clapton and I became interested in rock music so I started to play guitar by myself.
After several years of self taught guitar and learning rock and blues techniques, I enrolled at the Conservatorio de Música Alberto Ginastera, at the same time I was in my last year of highschool. I studied classical guitar with Silvina Elijovich and composition with composers Jorge Sad, Claudio Schulkin, counterpoint with Marcelo De Matteis, orchestration with Rodolfo Daluisio and many more. All of them, great people and teachers. I learned a lot from them and I will always be grateful for that.
At the same time I went to college and got two bachelor degrees. One in Advertising and another one in Communication Sciences. I wrote a thesis about Music in Advertising. After graduating a started my career as an university professor where I taught semiotics for several years. I also worked as a graphic designer, art director for a magazine and illustrator.
My first rock band was created with my neighborhood friends when we were 13. The band was called Aspirina (Aspirin). At first I played keyboards, then I became a guitar player. There are some demos that left documentation about that first band, recorded in 1994 where I played lead guitar and bass guitar (Some day I will upload those, I still have a copy).
In those years I played rock, blues, hard rock and heavy metal.
My way of thinking about music changed when I listened to Frank Zappa’s albums Grand Wazoo and Waka-Jawaka and Miles Davis’ record Bitches Brew. Those records, blew my mind forever!
In 2004 I started studying Composition at the conservatory. Since I was a little kid I spent ours inventing melodies, recording them in cassettes.
I think I’ve been a composer all my life but didn’t know what it was at that moment. I write contemporary music, chamber music, guitar, piano, sound design, electronics, ambient, etc. I mix different techniques.
Some of my early piano preludes were played by my friend, the Argentinian pianist and composer, Emiliana Prčik.
Since 2000 I’ve been playing in several jazz, fusion, blues and rock bands, playing in festivals, clubs, pubs and radio stations around Buenos Aires and since 2010 in the United States.
In 2005 I finished my first piano suite: “Suite 1 – Danzas para un mundo diferente ó El paseo del loco”. (Dance for a different world or The ride of the madman) Copyright © 2005 Pablo Emiliano Fedele.
I started to teach guitar to private students the same year. I still do and enjoy it very much.
In 2006 I was invited to create a jazz and fusion band with my friend, the bass player Gabriel Sinigalli, and with piano player Javier Schirmo, drums players Franco Poletti and Leandro Parma. The band had different names as Polos Opuestos and Quadratum. We made some demos and played in some small theaters and pubs. You can find some excerpts of my solos with the band here.
In 2007/2008 I was invited to play in the first solo record of Argentinian songwriter and musician Matias Zanga, and recorded 6 of the 9 tracks of the album “Carcel de rehenes”. From 2007 to 2010 I played his Matias’ band presenting the album in several places and radio stations. In 2009 I played some jazz with my friend, Argentinian singer, composer and piano player Magalí Cortez.
In 2010 I moved to the United States and now I’m working on new music, contemporary compositions, songwriting and instrumental jazz, rock and blues and more.
In 2012 I recorded “The Marriage of the Lettuce and the Tomato”. A guitar rock instrumental. I’m working in a new version.
In 2015 I published 3 singles:
– After the Rain, a solo acoustic guitar instrumental inspired by the rain in Hallandale Beach.
– Springtime. A song that I wrote a Thursday where you can listen to my voice.
– The Sun doesn’t Know, an electric guitar ambient instrumental.
In 2016 I composed a series of 3 pieces for 10 strings classical guitar named Landscape I, II, III.
Also, the same year I composed the music for a short film titled “Sombras”.
In 2017, my piece Ocean and Wind for solo viola was selected and performed by virtuoso Cornelia Petroiu at the Filarmonica George Enescu in Bucharest, Romania. You can find the wonderful performance in the video section of this website. Here’s is a video of the performance.
In 2018 I composed the original soundtrack for the Argentinian film “Gonzalo (Un tipo con suerte)”, produced by Ocular Audiovisual and directed by Ariel Moyano.
In 2019 I started composing an instrumental series of tunes that became the EP Coral Reef Soiree. Published in 2021.
2021. There’s a lot of popular music going on. (You can find in my discography).
2022. More music (popular and classical) including the world premiere of my piece “Fantasy No. 1” for solo Harp dedicated to harpist Danielle Kuntz.
I’m open to commissions and collaborations with artists of any discipline. You can get in contact with me through this website or any of the social media. In addition, I teach private guitar and piano lessons online.
I’m also available for recordings session, live concerts and touring as I musician. As long as the music you do is great for me, you just have to tell me when, where and I’ll be there, ready to play.
This is just a partial extended version. Too many activities hahaha.
