Introduction
Daniel Toledo (born 11 June 1991, Quito, Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian jazz double bassist and composer. Graduated from the Berklee College of Music, Valencia Campus.
Biography
Graduated of the Berklee College of Music with a master in "contemporary performance". He's a full-time professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in the faculty of music giving classes of bass and ensembles. Quickly he begins to have prominence in different stages of his local city and forms part of the College of Music of the USFQ at an early age, where he makes the majority of his studies.
Winning of the edition 2010 of the Jazz Envoys with whom he performs in the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.. Since then he has keptactively working with the Embassy of the United States and the Department of State.
At the moment he has endorsements from Upton Bass and D'Addario strings. Leading his own trio with Piotr Orzechowski (Pianohooligan) and Joshua Wheatley with whom he recorded his debut album Elapse in the 2014. In 2017 he releases his second album in Trio format with Piotr Orzechowski and Paul Svanberg entitled Atrium.
He has worked with artists and groups like Piotr Orzechowski, Ted Lo, John Blackwell, Perico Sambeat, Yoron Israel, Victor Mendoza, and others performing and making workshops in America south, America north, Asia and Europe.
Discography
Fletch (February 2020)
Track list:
- Fletch
- Blue Star
- Meek
- Reflections
- Keystone
- Spiral Pin
- Alerting
Atrium (February 2017)
Track list:
- Atrium
- Tawny
- Abridged Perspective
- Noa
- Horyzont
- Margins
- Near Focus
Elapse (October 2014)
Track list:
- Elapse
- Mikkakan
- Alerting
- Nardis
- Atmosphere Melt
- Delicate Earthly Life