Alejandro Coello Calvo

Percussion Theory ft. Simon Phillips, Diego Barber, Xabier Casal and Art Government Percussions (Release date: April 5, 2019 through Sunnyside Records, NY).

In October 2016, he performed at the Weimar Palace (Stadtschloss Weimar) along with his music group Art Government Percussions. In 2017 gave a concert for the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) and the Shenzhen Foundation.

In 2014 he has performed a chamber music percussion concert in Hangzhou, China. In November 2015, he was invited as a guest professor by the Shanghai Percussion Association. In August 2016, Alejandro performed and acted as jury at the Music Festival in Taiyuan, China.

Moreover, Alejandro has arranged two versions of “Píntame angelitos negros” and “El cumbanchero” for mixed choir which were commissioned by the “Contemporary Vocal Ensemble of Tenerife” conducted by Antonio Abreu Lechado. These arrangements received positive reviews from the spectators. On January 11, 2014, Coello premiered two of his seven preludes performed by the pianist Tito García González at the National Auditorium of Spain in Madrid.

Alejandro has participated with the Youth Percussion Pool directed by Tatiana Koleva and in which Emmanuel Séjourné has premiered his Concert for Vibraphone and Marimba. In 2013, the “Youth Percussion Pool” was awarded “Ensemble of the year” in Bulgaria.

From 2012-2013, Alejandro prepared himself for the “Teaching Audition/Recruitment”, where he won and became at only 23 years old, percussion solo teacher in the same institution which welcomed him warmly as an Erasmus exchange student.

Once in Weimar, Coello started several new projects both in Spain and in Germany. In 2009, Alejandro and his Bulgarian friend Tomi Ananiev Emilov, formed MixStick percussion duo. Later on, they travelled to Shanghai, China, where they won the “First and Golden prize” (chamber music category) in the International Festival and Percussion Competition 2011. Currently, they offer many concerts in Germany, Spain and Bulgaria. Presently, Coello is member of the Ensemble Iberoamericano conducted by Joan Pagès.

By the end of 2008, Alejandro moved to Weimar, Germany, with a scholarship granted by the Erasmus Programme (period from 2009-2010) in order to attend classes with the distinguished percussionist and professor Markus Leoson at the “University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar” (Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar). After this time, Coello returned to Salamanca, Spain, to take his final examinations, graduating with honors and reaching the “Most Outstanding Graduate Prize”. Later on, he was invited by professor Leoson to audition for the Konzertexamen (The highest achievable degree in German academies of music), ensuring his return and stay in Weimar for the next two years. During this period, Coello was twice granted the Charlotte-Krupp Stipendium.

Alejandro Coello Calvo (born July 25, 1989) is a Spanish percussionist, composer and producer. At only 23 years old, he became percussion solo teacher (Lehrbeauftragter) at the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar, Weimar (Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar). From 2017 to 2018 he gave lessons at the Castilla y León Higher Conservatory of Music in Spain (Conservatorio Superior de Música de Castilla y León).