# Andres Fonseca was accepted at the prestigious musicants: Video

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2018/02/22/andres-fonseca-was-accepted-at-the-prestigious-musicants-video/
- Published: 2018-02-22T00:02:38+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**22.02. – Happy Birthday !!! Andres Fonseca Alfonso, born in Bogota, Colombia has
been playing music since he was 8 years old. He started with piano lessons and soon
after fell in love with percussion instruments, particularly Drumset.**

After studying in different schools and private music lessons, Andres went on to
study professionally in the music program at Universidad Sergio Arboleda, where 
he studied jazz & latin jazz drumset performance, as well as Colombian percussion,
composition and arranging.

In 2009, Andres was accepted at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston,
MA. Ever since his arrival, he dove into scene, playing and leading different projects.
Making good use of his versatility as a musician, Andrés has collaborated with important
musical projects. The Colombian folkloric band La Babilla, was one of the first 
where he had the chance to play traditional Colombian percussion in different local
festivals such as the 5to Encuentro Folklorico Latinoamericano, in Lynn, MA. The
Boston Music Conference, in Boston and the New Bostonian Community Day, where the
band received recognition from former Mayor of Boston Thomas M. Menino. Soon after
hi arrival in Boston, Andres had the idea to start and lead a student club called,
Colombianos @ Berklee. With this club they did several events around the College
raising awareness about Colombian Culture, helping to demystify the old stigma of
drug traffic and war that has surrounded his home country. Because of these events
the club received support and grants from Berklee, support from the Colombian consulate
in Boston as well as the Colombian student organizations in Harvard and MIT. This
club is still active, currently led by new Colombian students at Berklee. As an 
arranger and composer, Andrés wrote original music for the therapeutic video called“
Soltar Para Volar”, written by the renowned psychologist and author Dr. Gloria Sierra
published by San Pablo publishing. Soltar Para Volar is a book and a video of 10
psychological therapies to re-establish emotional orders. Furthermore in 2011 he
wrote and performed arrangements of traditional Colombian Music for the Boston Latinamerican
Orchestra, a chamber orchestra focused on performing traditional music in a “classical
setting”, conducted by Andres Lopera.

Due to his innate ability as a leader and his enthusiasm for working in community,
Andres formed and led the band Unlimited Perception. A community of composers and
performers that has already recorded 2 albums and that has participated in renowned
festivals such as Detroit International Jazz Festival (2013) y el Boston Arts Festival(
2012). Apart from that, Andres has still worked as a drummer and a sideman, since
his arrival at Boston he has recorded 8 albums raging from pop/rock singer songwriters
to arabic/jazz fusion band with the Aliya Cycon Project and jazz/colombian llanera
music with the Nicolas Castaneda Group, amongst others.

Since his arrival at Boston, Andres has also collaborated with colombian artists
that tour the US, like Maria Mulata, on her US tour in 2013 and Antonio Arnedo, 
when he performed at Berklee College of Music in 2012.

Currently, graduated with honors from Berklee with a dual major in Jazz Drumset 
Performance and Contemporary Writing and Production; Andres is getting ready to 
record his first solo album, that plans to release in 2016. He also teaches drumset
and piano at a local music school and at his home studio, while actively playing
drumset and percussion on different projects with shows on the Boston area and NYC,
all while leading the band Unlimited Perception. We are certain that we will keep
hearing from this extrodinary colombian artist in the future as well as watching
his career shine not only in the US, but on the whole world.

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