Ana Carla Maza – Concert at Pallas Theater

ANA CARLA MAZA – ON FEBRUARY 10th, 2025 IN ATHENS

The unique Cuban Artist

Singer, Composer and Cellist

from the neighbourhoods of Havana to the heart of Athens and the Pallas Theater.

Ana Carla Maza for the first time in Greece, in a musical feast.

The classical cello, combined with her “heavenly” voice, create an original and unsurpassed musical universe.

Precious materials – artistic gifts – are kept in her luggage: Cuban sound marries harmoniously with jazz, Brazilian bossa nova with Cuban habanera, tango with samba and Latin jazz.

She could be considered a miracle child, since at the age of 5 she started learning piano, under the guidance of her talented Cuban mother (director of the children’s choir, in which little Ana participated) and guitarist and fatherly musical symbol, Carlos Maza, the wonderful Chilean composer and multi-instrumentalist.

Her piano teacher is Miriam Valdes, sister of the living legend Chucho Valdés, the most important presence in Afro-Cuban jazz.

It was within this musical culture that she was taught and fell in love with the cello, at the age of 8. She has been playing, creating, playing and delving into the musical influences of Latin jazz ever since.

At the age of 13, she began collaborating professionally with her father, participating in two recordings released by him in 2010, “Carlos Maza en Familia” and “Quererte”.

She participated in her first music competitions, playing Pior Ilits Tsaikofski and Camille Saint-Saëns, as a soloist in a symphony orchestra and began singing with the accompaniment of the cello.

In 2012 she moved to Paris to study at the Conservatoire de musique française. She continued her musical studies at the Pôle supérieur d’enseignement artistique Paris Boulogne-Billancourt (PSPBB), at the Université de Sorbonne and then embarked on a solo career, performing throughout Europe with notable success.

During this period she met the great cellist Vincent Ségal, who, recognising her talent, encouraged her to continue.

From then until today, Ana Carla Maza has not stopped shaping her musical identity, a whirlwind of passionate vocals and impressive rhythms, presenting a rare and entirely her own musical world, opening her artistic wings even further.

Over 200 concerts around the world.

All her recordings have a characteristic acoustic and musical way, without touching anything electric.   Her seductive voice pulses and dances along joyful paths, from Caribbean rumbles to Argentinean tango and flirts alongside Brazilian bossa-jazz and samba.

Her recent songs included on the album “Caribé” were literally written and recorded “on the road”, on a plane trip to Mexico.

She grouped and “married” a panoply of talented musicians, from different parts of Europe and Latin America, creating a great band, a powerful brass sextet, that recolors her musical memories with her wonderful voice.

On February 10, 2025 and for the first time, she will be introduced to the Greek audience.

She, through her musical and singing galaxy, urges us on the essence of life:

“don’t be afraid, it’s your life, you have nothing to lose”.

An opportunity to live (in) her musical feast !