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“What do agile bass trombone jazz solos, superior sideman professionalism and thoughtful music education have in common? Gina Benalcázar López delivers them all (and more!) with poise and style.”
Photography by: Dasha Dare
About
Gina Benalcázar López is an Ecuadorian-Honduran-American composer and low brass specialist. Influenced by straight-ahead jazz, latin-jazz, popular Latin American music, and musical theater, Gina has performed with and arranged/composed for various size bands ranging in style from Classical Chamber to Jazz Big Band and Salsa Bands as well as Broadway orchestras and other theater productions.
She has worked with some of the world's most prolific band leaders and can be found playing with Lulada Club, The Broadway Sinfonietta, The Roy Hargrove Big Band, Etienne Charles’ Creole Soul, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, The Rufus Reid Big Band, Dee The Dee Bridgewater Big Band, Ulysses Owens Jr’s New Century Big Band, Helen Sung’s Big Band, as well as being in the pit of Broadways new production of “The Heart of Rock and Roll.”
Gina’s discography is expansive, credited her as both soloist and arranger/composer as a side-person. As a band leader Gina was selected as a recipient of Chamber Music America’s Performance Plus Grant which helped her record her debut album, “The BOUNCE” featuring her original compositions. Her collective Lulada Club will also be releasing two new original tunes co-composed by the members of the band in March 2024. Her next solo album is projected to release in February 2025.
“You play like poetry.”
“Man she keeps getting better and better.”