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- Cuban Pianist, Composer, Arranger, Orchestra Leader,
Educator ALMA Records Recording Artist / Universal
Music Canada
One of the world’s most innovative creators of Afro-
Cuban music & Latin Jazz.
“Hilario Durán is an unparalleled pianist, as well as
being a composer and arranger of the first order…one
of the greatest Cuban pianists of the 20th century”. —
Chucho Valdés
Latin Jazz Corner wrote that Hilario is one of the world’
s “contemporary Cuban pianists that moved jazz into
the 21st century”.
•Two JUNO Award 2010 nominations for the Hilario
Durán Trio album “Motion” (Alma/Universal Records).
Best Contemporary Jazz album of the Year &
Recording Engineer of the Year. Named #1 Latin Jazz
Best Recording of 2010 by Latin Jazz Network.
•Grammy nomination in 2007 for his Latin Jazz Big
Band album, “From The Heart”, (Alma/Universal
Records) featuring Paquito D’Rivera and Horacio “El
Negro” Hernandez. Juno Award Winner (Canadian
Grammy equivalent) “Contemporary Jazz Album of the
Year”.
•Won two JUNO and over a dozen National Jazz
Awards in Canada.
•Honoured with prestigious 2007 Chico O’Farrill lifetime
achievement award in Miami for his outstanding
contributions to Afro-Cuban jazz and Latin Jazz.
Awarded “Premio EGREM” for Best Arranger of the
Year 1982-83—one of Cuba’s most prestigious music
prizes.
•Performed with Cuba’s legendary “Orquesta Cubana
de Música Moderna”. Invited by former leader Chucho
Valdés to replace him as pianist when he started the
famous group Irakere.
•Arranger, pianist, musical director with Arturo
Sandoval for nine years, touring worldwide. Performed
with “greats” Dizzy Gillespie, Michel Legrand, among
many others.
•Performed with and studied composition and
arranging at Amadeo Roldan conservatory and under
the musical directors of some of Havana’s great cabaret
and theatre orchestras.
•Created extensive library of original
compositions/arrangements.
•Adjunct piano professor and ensemble director in jazz
faculty at Humber College, Toronto, Ontario.
•Born 1953, Havana, Cuba. Immigrated in 1998 to
Toronto, Canada. Named one of the 10 most influential
Hispanic Canadians in 2009.
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