Benjamin Brea is a Spanish-Venezuelan woodwind player, music teacher and arranger, mostly associated with jazz, although he has a wide career involved with other genres.
He was born in Pontevedra, Spain on September 18, 1946. He is mostly known for his collaborations with other artists and is noted to have a brilliant execution, a quality which has granted him various awards in his own country.
He currently resides in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Benjamin Brea is a Spanish-Venezuelan woodwind player, music teacher and arranger, mostly associated with jazz, although he has a wide career involved with other genres.
He was born in Pontevedra, Spain on September 18, 1946. He is mostly known for his collaborations with other artists and is noted to have a brilliant execution, a quality which has granted him various awards in his own country.
He currently resides in Caracas, Venezuela.
Brea plays a grand number of instruments in the woodwinds family like the saxophone, clarinet, flute and oboe, apart from being a very demanded arranger and music educator. He is also acclaimed in many genres, specially classical music and jazz, and has a long history as a session musician in genres like pop, folk, Latin, world music, among others. He has performed alongside artists and bands like The Jackson Five, Maria Teresa Chacin, Serenata Guayanesa, Andy Duran, El Pavo Frank, Paquito D'Rivera, Alberto Naranjo, Porfi Jimenez Big Band, Gerry Weil,...
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