Cristobal Pinto Santana
Composer - Double Bass Player - Educator
“He it’s not only a musician… he’s an artist!”
“It is really impressive! Lots of strong themes, great rhythmic energy, impressive playing. Very consistently creative.”
– J. Mulholland (2018)
Bio
Cristobal Pinto is a music composer and double bass player, born in Mexico, raised in Guatemala and now living in Hannover, Germany.
His cultural/musical backround it’s full of artistic variety. His father was a classical piano performer, wich influenced Cristobal as a kid to start his musical path with this intrument to perform classical music. Later on he learned by himself to play guitar and then started to compose rock music. In his adolescence woke his interest for jazz music and learned self taught to play double bass.
He’s also award winner of high prestige scholarships such as Gundlach Musik Preis (Deutschland, 2023) and Berklee Celebrity Scholarship (USA, 2018).
Untill this day he has released two albums with his original composition: Deja Vu (2017) y Maneki Neko (2018), wrote a educational book dedicated to improvisation and creative use of scales (Tipzz Vol.1) and participated in live performances that includes not only his passion for Jazz Music, but also his heritage as Latinamerican Musician.
Currently Cristobal lives and works in Hannover – Germany in projects related to jazz, latin music and avant garde art forms.
“I don’t do Music. The Music speaks through me”.
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