Saxophonist Sergio Olivares and his Fusion Quartet in Lo Barnechea
- Souk Center for the Arts, Av. La Dehesa 1500, Lo Barnechea, floor -2 (Local 30).
- Tuesday, June 18 – 8:00 p.m.
- Tickets from $10,000 HERE.
“The landscape of the Atacama Desert, the city of Copiapó where he was born and trained as a musician and the immensity of the geography in that territory have been present in his musical history, until leading to his first album, a work for quartet where he brings together their worlds of music and geology,” writes journalist Íñigo Díaz about the Chilean saxophonist, flutist and composer Sergio Olivares on the specialized site Música Popular.
Geologist by profession and son of fellow musician Sergio Olivares – founder of the band Motete in 1995, and from whom he inherited his love for the saxophone and flute –, today he is one of the most acclaimed performers of local contemporary jazz and will make his debut on stage de Zoco together with his new fusion project, made up of Joaquín Fuentes on the piano, Jorge Vargas on the electric bass and Sebastián Acevedo on the drums.
The group will present part of the repertoire from their debut album, “Subduction”, as well as unreleased compositions that will be part of their new studio work.
Sergio Olivares trained as a musician from a very young age in his hometown. He attended the Copiapó Lyceum of Music and had saxophonist Raúl López, from the Quilín group, as a jazz teacher. As a teenager, he joined orchestras, saxophone and flute quartets and was part of the Atacama Regional Philharmonic Orchestra. However, the land and the scene of his childhood were stronger and he began to study Geology at the University of Atacama in 2011, the same year he joined the big band founded by his father.
As a soloist, Olivares has played in various groups and projects with Sebastián Jordán (in the quintet for the album “Patagonia”, in 2023), as well as Felipe Riveros, Federico Dannemann and Agustín Moya.
The jazz season of the Zoco Center for the Arts will also add a new date: on Tuesday, August 13, Ken Ychicawa, a key figure in the young Peruvian jazz scene, will make his debut in Chile. Drummer, composer and educator based in New York, arrives with a concert in which he will offer a repertoire full of groove, modern jazz and progressive rock, in the company of Chilean musicians Guillermo Muñoz (double bass), Juan Cristóbal Aliaga (guitar) and Cristián Gallardo (sax).