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Artist
Prisca Dávila
12+ albums
pianoinstrumentalvenezuelan
about
Pianist, singer and composer, Prisca began studying music under the tutoring of María Luisa Stopello at the age of five. By the age of eight, She had published her book of poetry. In the year 2001, she became a “Piano Performer Professor” under the teachings of María Auxiliadora Díaz. Later on, she studied contemporary harmony, improvisation and jazz with Gerry Weil, a living legend. She also attended the jazz workshops taught by Gonzalo Micó and Olegario Díaz two of the outmost Venezuela’s music teachers. She obtained the degree of “Lyric Singing Performer Professor” in 2004 under the tutoring of Flor García and Rubén Malnéz. Soon after, she went into popular singing and vocal improvisation with Cesar Muñoz and Marisela Leal. She still continues studying with the later one. In the year 2002, she was awarded with the “Honorific Mention for the Best Merengue Interpretation” in the First Venezuelan Piano Contest. Prisca is also a History Major from Universidad Central de Venezuela, class of 2004, where her thesis, “The Pianistic Movement in Caracas 1870-1920”, received Honorific Mention and Recommendation for Publication. However, her everyday life in the academic world soon found the pianist embracing the fantasy and looseness of popular music. It was then that she became a student of three of the foremost jazz teachers of her country: pianist Olegario Díaz, internationally acclaimed pianist composer Gerry Weil and guitarist Gonzálo Micó who taught her the difficult art of t
