Liceaga, Jorge Liceaga

Liceaga2Jorge is a man of many hats. He is guitarist (flamenco, tres, guitarra de son), composer, arranger, children’s music composer and educator and culinary phenomenon. An artist in musical communication, Jorge is possibly the best accompanist of Flamenco dance and Latin American song in the San Francisco Bay area. Mr. Liceaga comes from a rich musical hertiage. As a youth in Mexico City, he was mentored on the guitar by Yucatecan Leonardo “El León” Salas, a local hero, to whom he credits his unique accompaniemient of the bolero. He then became immersed in the art of the Flamenco guitar, accompanying dancers from Mexico and Spain in important venues throughout Mexico. Meanwhile, Mr. Liceaga furthered his studies in the ethnomusicology program of the Escuela Nacional de Música. He then developed his skills as a composer and arranger in recordings and performances of children’s music with his project “Grupo Kata”. Now in the San Francisco Bay Area, he is an indispensable part of the Bay Area’s Flamenco community. He has been part of notable groups such as “Fuego Vivo” (Flamenco music and dance), and the innovative quintet Potaje, which explores the musical bridges between Spain and Cuba. He is the musical director and guitarist of Virginia Iglesia’s Flamenco Dance Company and is also held in high regard as one of the Bay Area’s finest treseros (Cuban tres), as a result of his tenure with the Orquesta La Moderna Tradición. Jorge continues to compose for and teach music to children (and adults) in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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