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Artist
Joaquin Taboada
12+ albums
spainnon profit musiconam
about
Composer and keyboardist from Navarra, Spain. He begins his musical education in the Conservatorio of Tafalla, after which he attends the prestigious Conservatorio Superior Pablo Sarasate in Pamplona, where he obtains the qualifications of Piano Teacher and Advanced Singing Teacher, Theory of Music, Sight-Reading and Accompaniment. He has been teaching Musical Language and Piano in the Escuela Municipal de Música in Peralta-Navarra (Spain) since 1996. As a keyboard-player, he has been part of pop-rock groups such as Ohiana, with which he recorded the LPs “Menos sensibilidad (Less Sensitivity)” (1990) and “En otro lugar (In another Place)” (1991), and won the final of the Gobierno de Navarra Pop-Rock Contest in 1990. He also recorded the LP “El beso del camaleón (The Kiss of the Chameleon)” (1991) with the group Malos Tratos. As an accordionist and keyboard-player, he belonged to Chuchín Ibáñez’s “mariachis” – with whom he collaborated in the recording of “Millones y Chamacas” (Etxeondo 2003) – as well as to Diego Quevedo’s “mariachi”. As a composer and performer of his own music, in 1991 he participates in the II Festival de Nuevas Músicas in San Sebastián together with Michael Nyman and others, going on tour that same year. In 2001 and after a quite long break devoted to his studies, his work as a teacher as well as to composing, he decides to compile and re-record a series of themes composed from 1990 onwards. In May 2002, the CD is issued in mp3.com under the title of “
