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18 Serenade in Blue - Violinist - Los Angeles Area

Item Number
109
Estimated Value
350 USD
Opening Bid
117 USD

Item Description

Add a touch of Class to your Sunday Brunch or evening Dinner Party with Concert Violinist Alan Busteed.

Violinist Alan Busteed has a history of jazz composition and improvisation

dating back to the eighties. While in graduate school at UMASS Amherst he

was coached by pianist Billy Taylor and saxophonist Yusef Lateef. While

serving as a first violinist in the Florida Symphony Orchestra, Alan studied

under modern jazz trumpeter Don Cherry. As solo violinist for the Mmadu

Onyawa Jazz Quartet he presented a series of concerts through the

Universidad lnteramericana de Puerto Rico.

Alan has performed with the Fania All Stars salsa band in Caracas, Venezuela,

and "traded fours" with Cuban singer Celia Cruz in concert. As concertmaster

of the pop string section for Mexican vocalist and composer Marco Antonio

Solis, he has given concerts on both coasts of the USA. Alan has been

concertmaster and improvisational solo violinist for independent motion picture

scoring in Los Angeles. He has done film scoring as a violist for the Oscar

winning movie "Up" with music by Michael Giaccino and played on blockbuster

films including Mission Impossible and Star Trek editions, can be heard on

2014's Dawn of The Planet of The Apes score. His composer credits include

prime time television work for CBS. He performs regularly with Los Angeles

based Tinto Tango, the almost-all-Argentinian tango group, with bandoneon

player Mariano Dugatkin.

Alan Busteed has performed concert soloist with orchestra on three continents.

His recent chamber music credits throughout the Southwestern USA have

taken him to dozens of venues with different groups, including Trio del Mar, a

classical piano trio with cellist Ruslan Biryukov and pianist Mary Au. This

spring he was featured soloist in a benefit concert for the Los Angeles

Philharmonic. He has toured nationally with the Hutchins Consort of specially

designed scaled violins and concertized with the New York based groups

Ensemble Sepia and Orion Piano Trio.