Marcos Collado
Specialty
Jazz guitar, composition, modern harmony, ear training, musical analysis, and musical projects.
Training
Marcos Collado began his musical training at the Conservatory of Palma de Mallorca and later continued his training in jazz and modern music at the Taller de Músics in Barcelona.
In 2008 he expanded his training in New York, receiving lessons from musicians such as Steve Cardenas, Wayne Krantz, Oz Noy, Jonathan Kreisberg and Peter Bernstein, and participating in seminars and master classes with Barry Harris, Ron Carter, Scott Henderson, Jerry Bergonzi, Gilad Hekselman and Mark Turner.
He holds a degree in Music from the International University of La Rioja (UNIR) and a Master's degree in Jazz and Modern Music from the same institution.
Career path
Marcos Collado is a jazz guitarist, composer, and teacher. He has collaborated with numerous international artists and projects, including Alain Pérez, Emilio Valdés, Henry Cole, Erwin Schrott, Chris Kase, and Bobby Martínez, Jerry González, Norman Hogue, Molly Duncan, Ben Stivers, Estefan Rademacher and Bob Sands.
He has been part of groups and projects such as the Spanish National Orchestra, Miguel Blanco's Afrodissian Orchestra, the National Jazz Orchestra directed by Ramón Farrán and Bob Sands' Big Band, in addition to collaborations with Ariel Brínguez, Tomás Merlo, José Feliciano, Lorenzo Santamaría and David Ruiz, as well as recordings for RTVE.
His artistic activity has led him to perform on international stages and festivals in Europe, Latin America, the United States and Africa, including the Los Angeles Opera, SOB's (New York), the Munich Opera, the Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna and the Castelo Sforzesco in Milan, as well as festivals in Spain, France, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, Portugal, Italy, Malta, Romania, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Switzerland, Brazil, Peru, Morocco, Finland, Germany and the United States.
As a composer and performer, he has released the albums What's Up (2006) Suite I (2013) suite II (2015) POE (2018) and The Guardians of the Compass (2022).
She combines her artistic activity with teaching in music education.
Subjects and workshops
DIPLOMA IN MUSIC CREATION AND PRODUCTION
-Ear training
-Modern Harmony
-Composition
-Musical analysis
-Musical projects
Research lines
• Pedagogy of jazz and modern music
• Teaching methodologies for composition, harmony, and ear training
• Digital technologies applied to music education (DAWs, piano roll and digital music creation tools)
• Artistic research in instrumental composition and musical narrative, with a special interest in the relationship between music and literature
• Contemporary music theory, jazz analysis, and historical contextualization of harmonic systems
• Interpretive practice of jazz guitar and its pedagogical and compositional application