FESTIVAL PATRON

Darius Varnas

Darius Varnas

Ukmergė District Municipality Mayor Darius Varnas

FESTIVAL MECENAT

BAC

SPONSORS

UKMERGĖS HERBAS


Stansefabrikken


LIETUVOS KULTUROS TARYBA


Ūkininkas Valentinas Genys


PARTNERS

Jazz Academy

Lietuvos kompozitorių sąjunga

Varėnos Jadvygos Čiurlionytės menų mokykla

Ukmergės meno mokykla

Ukmergės rajono savivaldybės Vlado Šlaito viešoji biblioteka

INFORMATIONAL SPONSOR

LRT

Ramon Lopez

Ramon Lopez is a jazz drummer renowned for his highly personal and atypical style, which draws on an immense musical culture. He is a musician who has mastered a multitude of musical traditions with a highly sensitive and poetic approach, an elaborate musical construction and a remarkable management of silence and contrasts that create a unique soundscape.

Born on 6 August 1961 in Alicante, Spain, he began self-taught drumming in Spain in the mid-1970s. Ramón López settled permanently in Paris in January 1985, and he joined the French and international jazz and artistic, where he has distinguished himself for the past forty years.

He is currently one of the most respected European artists in contemporary jazz, having recorded over 150 CD’s and participated in concerts and festivals all over the world with some of the most influential and innovative representatives of the jazz world, such as Mark Feldman, Satoko Fujii, Barry Guy, Joachim Kühn, among others.