- Leonel Kaplan
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Name = Leonel Kaplan
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Img_capt = Leonel Kaplan at High Zero Festival, 2006
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Born = Birth year and age|1973|11|21Buenos Aires , BA, AR
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Instrument =trumpet
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Genre =experimental free improvisation
electroacoustic
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Label = Creative Sources
Utech Records
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Notable_instruments =Leonel Kaplan (b.1973) is an Argentine trumpet player active in
free improvisation . He has been part of the international improvised music scene since the early 2000s performing and recording throughout Europe and U.S.Kaplan worked with percussionist
Diego Chamy first, touring overseas as a trio with Madrid based bass clarinetist and alto flutist Wade Matthews and also with german trumpeter Axel Dörner, but also in Argentina and South America, often performing for audiences in cities and towns where improvised music had never before been heard. The duo split up in 2004 after Chamy's decision to quit music in favor of philosophy and dance. Collaborations around the same time incudes musicians likeLe Quan Ninh ,Michel Doneda ,Ivar Grydeland ,Bhob Rainey andGreg Kelley .In 2005, and after the rare opportunity of daily rehearsal and exploration for 20 days in upstate New York, Kaplan formed "Silo trio", together trumpeter
Nate Wooley (New York) and cellistAudrey Chen (Baltimore). The trio toured Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, and England in the winter of 2006, and during late September they traveled through the Midwest, South, and East Coast of the U.S.Around the same time, Kaplan started collaborating with many New York, Philadelphia and Chicago musicians, like
Guillermo Gregorio ,Tatsuya Nakatani ,Sean Meehan ,Fred Lonberg-Holm andJack Wright ; becoming a regular visitor to the US since then.Besides projects with musicians, Kaplan works extensively with dancers Nicole Bindler and Ly Thanh Tiên.
Recordings of Kaplan's music have been released on labels such as Creative Sources, Utech Records and his own Three Chairs Recordings. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
External links
* [http://blogs.chicagoreader.com/post-no-bills/tag/Leonel%20Kaplan/ Disguising the Sound of Trumpet (Chicago Reader)]
* [http://www.creativesourcesrec.com/ Creative Sources Recordings]
* [http://www.utechrecords.com/ Utech Records]
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