Nando Michelin

Nando Michelin is a jazz pianist, composer, and associate professor at Berklee College of Music. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, he has released more than 14 albums as a bandleader featuring collaborators like Esperanza Spalding and Jerry Bergonzi. He has performed internationally and taught at institutions including Tufts, Longy, and Berklee. With Berklee Online, he teaches several levels of private piano lessons for the Piano Performance degree, as well as the course Latin Piano Styles, which he wrote.




Jesús Valdés Rodríguez, better known as Chucho Valdés

Cuban Music Fusion: Pianists to Put in Heavy Rotation

In this excerpt from Nando Michelin’s Latin Piano Styles course, we look at how Cuban musicians traveling to perform abroad in the early part of the twentieth century created a natural mix of styles and opened the doors to brand new flavors of musical fusion.

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