LAS ALBITAS
Las Albitas is the union of the overwhelming energy of two emerging talents of national jazz, the Catalan trumpeter & singer Alba Careta and the Canarian saxophonist Alba Gil Aceytuno, a stellar duo summoned to surprise and really move the audience at the 34th Festival Internacional Canarias Jazz & Más.
Alba Careta
Alba Careta Arnaus (Avinyó, 1995) is a jazz trumpet player, singer & songwriter who received her training at the
Higher School of Music in Barcelona, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands, and finished her academic stage doing her Master’s degree in Jazz Trumpet at the Amsterdam Conservatory.
She won the AMJM Young Talent Award 2023 (Association of Jazz Musicians and Modern Music of Catalunya), as well as the Alícia Award for Emerging Talent 2023 (Catalan Academy of Music). Prior to that she won the Enderrock Award in 2019 for Origens and then another Enderrock-440 Award for Best Jazz revelation disc of 2023 by Teia.
She has performed with musicians and bands from all over the world such as Carles Benavent, Ben Wendel, NSJO (Netherlands Student Jazz Orchestra, 2015), JM Jazz World Orchestra (2016), BvR Flamenco Big Band (2019), Balkan Paradise Orchestra (2015-2021), has been several times the musical director of Palabra de Mujeres in El Prat de Llobregat (2019-2020 y 2021-2022) and has played at countless festivals and stage venues.
Alba Gil Aceytuno
Alba Gil Aceytuno is a saxophonist from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Alba’s personality & musical energy comes loaded with hues of jazz, hip hop, punk rock & Canarian folklore.
Her first instrument was the timple, but at the age of eight she started playing the saxophone. She devoted her time to classical music until she was 18, graduating with honours at professional level at the Las Palmas Conservatory of Music. She introduced herself to modern music & improvisation on her own account, forming the band Zumurrud and then went to Holland to study the higher cycle of Jazz Bachelor.
She has participated in various ensembles of different musical styles, such as Los Hermanos Thioune, Tamara Baas, Amaguk, Aguayro, Arube, Rupatrupa, Don’t Cut the tree and the Gran Canaria Big Band, featuring in several albums with some of them. Alba Gil Aceytuno’s roots are in modern jazz & improvisation, but her influences are as diverse as punk rock or classical music, interspersed with energy.
In 2022 she received the award for Best jazz & fusion music album at the Canary Islands Music Awards for her work titled Aguayro (2021). In 2023, she won first prize at the ‘Festival Sonora Las Palmas de Gran Canaria’. She has peformed at festivals such as Canarias Jazz & Más, Festival Jazz International Nijmegen and North Sea Jazz, among others.