Artist: Roman Diaz
Cuban born percussionist Román Díaz is a “living repository” of Afro-Cuban culture. He is a noted scholar of Cuban religious and folkloric music as well as a composer and performer of contemporary Afro-Cuban music and Jazz.
Díaz is a noted scholar of Afro-Cuban traditions. He taught at Havana’s Escuela Nacional de Instructores de Arte (the Cuban National Academy for Arts Instructors). Since moving to the U.S. he has also been a guest lecturer at Berklee College of Music, Harvard University, Yale University, Rutgers University, Humboldt State University Afro-Cuban Camp and New York’s New School.
Diaz has been a foundational member of New York based pianist/composer, Michele Rosewoman’s, 11-piece New Yor-Uba ensemble since 2008.
He has traveled globally performing and teaching master classes on Afro-Cuban culture and percussion in Spain, France, Germany, Belgium, Israel and Panama.
Further information about Roman Diaz is found at RomanDiazBata.com, from which the content herein was excerpted
Iyáre Ashé - Clemente Medina, Roman Diaz, & Javier Diaz
Silencio - The Roman Diaz Ensemble Live
Roman Diaz & Ensemble at Lincoln Center Out of Doors