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latin percussion instructor and
Gilles Prémel
33400 Talence France
Phone: 00/33/(0)664.41.02.54
www.myspace.com/gillespremel
E-mail: premelp@yahoo.fr
Musician percussionist specializing in Afro-Caribbean music, Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian and African sources.
PERCUSSION INSTRUCTOR:
Instruments played: conga, bongo, timbales, bata, berimbau, timba, repinique, pandeiro, tamborim, reco-reco, chékéré, agogo, gan,Peruvian cajon Cuban cajon,quijada, surdo.drums
CURRICULUM-VITAE
French-american, born on 01 September 1961 at Versailles.
Researcher: work in progress on Yoruba, Fon, Congo percussion and their transpositions in Latin America and their interchanges with the Western world.music of the last century.
1979: Congolese percussion with ZEBILA Lucky at the American Center in Paris (the crossroads of cultures from Africa).
1980: Traditional Percussion from Haiti and Cuba with John AMIRA at Naropa Center in Boulder Colorado USA.
1982-84:Afro-caribean percussion for Allan sylva and his C.C.O (Celestrial Comunications Orchestra) taught thereafter in his I.A.C.P institute in Paris.
1984: Brazilian Percussion with Bira Almeida "Mestre accordion" world-renowned master and instigator of the Capoeira in the U.S.A. and musical director and composer of the famous group of San francisco corpo santo.
1985:assisting cuban percussion with Jerry GONZALES (Assistant in Paris at the center of dance rue de Clichy on his afro-cuban percussion workshop))
1988-89: Afro-cuban workshop in matanzas with LOS MUv±EQUITOS of MATANZAS in Cuba. Diploma 3rd degree at the CONJUNTO FOLKLORICO Nacional de Cuba, Havana.deleguation from Paris St.Denis UN.
1988-90: Cuban Percussion with Roger FIXI, learning drums and the yoruba and Congo cycles...
Languages: French
English (2nd language)
Spanish
Discography: "Desert Mirage," CCO Alan Silva (Phonogramme)
"Dream off the Ground" Future sound set (Future sound together)
"Small with big ears," Bill Baxter (Polydor)
"Tupi nago" Tupi nago (Melody Music)
"lenny laffargue" blues-mojo
"raoult ficel" blues-mojo
percussion student programming for this years festival "les afrolatines"
teaching in residency at the SFUAD in santa fe new mexico on afro carribean percussion .