Artist description A Flute Guitar Duo with 15 years playing experience in classical, Brazilian, Spanish, and Jazz.

Music Style Classical and Latin and Jazz And More...

Musical Influences John Williams, Sabicas, Rafael Rabello

Artist History Aaron Gilmartin received a Bachelors of Arts degree in classical guitar performance from California State Univ. at Hayward, where he won awards for his jazz performances and was granted two years study abroad in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There he studied bossa nova, samba and vocal styling with Paulinho Nogeira. He can be found playing solo classical, Brazilian and flamenco guitar weekly in restaurants and private events around NYC. Aaron Gilmartin works as a guitarist/vocalist sideman for songwriters in many styles and composes for film, tv, solo artists, his own performance and for theatrical productions. You can also see Aaron perform weekly at a number of New York Latin hot spots, playing everything from flamenco to traditional boleros and son. He is also an experienced arranger, and teacher. Aaron is the NY based singer/songwriter who writes and sings in B1. He is lead guitarist and vocalist with Dorothy Potter www.DorothyPotter.com in her band La Cantera. Aaron toured extensively in the U.S. and in Europe with hit songwriter Alex Forbes www.AlexForbes.com and co-wrote one of the songs on her latest release Leap. He works as a flamenco guitarist with Dionisia Garcia in her latest Flamenco show Lorca’s Mirror. With Melania Levitsky he performs the music of Cuban poet and songwriter Silvio Rodriguez in a show titled Sueno con Serpientes. He was commissioned by Lisa Peterson to compose the two and a half hour score for Sueño a play adapted by Jose Rivera for the Manhattan Class Company and based on La Vida Es Sueno by Calderon De La Barca. As comfortable on stage as he is in the creative process, he also performed the pieces on stage on solo flamenco guitar. See www.curtainup.com/Sueno.html Filmmaker Dimitri Torgovitsky has tapped Aaron to score and compose for two films; a humorous short with no dialogue titled Manhattan Dog Story, and a feature length film, still in post-production. Aaron received a Bachelors of Arts degree in classical guitar performance from California State University at Hayward, where he won awards for his jazz performances and was granted two years study abroad in Sao Paulo, Brazil. There he studied bossa nova, samba and vocal styling with Paulinho Nogeira. Aaron's solo guitar repertoire encompasses music from the guitar traditions of classical, flamenco, Brazilian, and jazz. Some of the most fulfilling work for Aaron comes from composing and recording for Songs of Love www.SongofLove.com - an organization that creates personalized songs for severely ill children.

Group Members Aaron Gilmartin - Laura Schiller

Instruments Guitar and Flute

Location New York, New York - USA

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