Federio Lechner
Born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1974, begins to play piano at the age of three with his mother, the music pedagogue Lolita Lechner.
During his childhood he works singing for TV spots, and plays some classical piano recitals.
At the age of ten he moves with his family to Spain.
At the age of fifteen beguins to studie modern music: piano with Horacio Icasto, Harmony with Rafael Reina, Ear Training with Hebe Onesti, Trumpet with Julio Daud, and Rhythm with Miguel Gil.
From these years from now he has played with most of the top jazz musicians of Spain, such as Antonio Serrano, Perico Sambeat, Jorge Pardo, Ximo Tebar, Carles Benavent, Israel Sandoval, Pedro Ruy Blas, and many others, as well as with great american jazz artists, as Jerry Gonzalez, Christian Howes, Rez Abbasi, Ugonna Okewo, Bob Sands, and others, touring in Europe, the U.S. and South America.
He has also worked with many pop and rock artist as pianist, producer, keyboardist, arranger, composer, and singer.Some of them: Miguel Rios, “Los Toreros Muertos”, Javier Ruibal, Pablo Carbonell, Sergio Makaroff, Ismael Serrano, Javier Krahe, Ariel Rot,.....
He works often as studio pianist for Spanish movies and Television, as well as he has composed and arranged several TV spots and three short movies. He also made two tours all over Spain as live pianist for silent movies (Chaplin, Keaton, Melies, German Expressionism) improvising and playing original compositions.
He has recorded over 40 albums of many different styles, and he has 5 albums as a Jazz Artist. One of them, “A Primera Vista”, duo with Jerry Gonzalez, was nominated Finalist as Best Jazz Album 2002 on the Spanish Music Awards.
In 2001 he wins the 4th Jazz Composition Award “Tete Montoliu” for his tune “Conversation con Thelonius”.
From 2004 to now, he is taking lessons with Fred Hersh, Bruce Barth, Eliane Elias and Graham Jackson.
In spite of his youthfulness, has achieved quite a long experience as teacher of improvisation: he has a regular staff of students (many of them professional already), he teaches at the “Escuela Municipal de Tres Cantos” in Madrid, and he has taught many Improvisation Masterclasses: Gijón (Spain). Taller de Musicos, JOCM (young orchestra of Madrid), High School for Performing Arts in Columbus, Ohio (U.S.A), Escuela de Jóvenes Músicos Ciudad de Lúcena. Lúcena (Córdoba, Spain), “Taller de Músicos” of Oviedo (Spain), Assistant Teacher of the Julliard School of Music of NY during the Vitoria Jazz Festival, The Lemmensinstitute Louven (Belgium), and
“Conservatorio Jesús Guridi”, Vitoria (Spain).
In 2005 his composition “Iboga” is awarded with the First Prize on the “Tete Montoliu Jazz Composition Awards”.
His main projects now are: his duet with Antonio Serrano; the Howes/Lechner/Martin trio, and the Federico Lechner Tango&Jazz trio.
 
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