Javier G.F. Escudero

Guitarist
A versatile guitarist with a broad variety of timbres and colors. Javier has been worked in several projects of different music styles during his career.
He started to study classical music at the age of 8 years old. After his Bachelor of Arts on Classical Music at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid with José Luis Rodrigo, he was awarded a music scholarshipto study at Berklee College of Music.
He had signed a contract with Jazz Revelation Records to record in their album “Ripple Effect” released in 2012. He has given recitals in different places from Spain and countries such as United States, Puerto Rico, France, Italy, Croatia, Austria, Finland and Mexico as a soloist, with chamber orchestra, and with diferent bands. He has played in various jazz festivals specially the Heineken festival in Puerto Rico where he shared the stage with Paco de Lucia, Michel Camilo, Jose Heredia, Giovanni Hidalgo, Christian Scott and Abraham Laboriel. He had recorded for many bands, TV programs and movies in diferent countries.
Awards:
2013: Berklee College of Music Guitar department
award
2012: Semifinalist of Six String Theory Contest.
2012: Jazz Revelations album contest.
2011: Funk and R&B guitar showcase at Berklee
College of Music.
2011: Guthrie Govan national guitar contest.