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Spain in the past few years has become synonymous with innovation and reinvention of its traditions. Monroy is set to tour the UK in spring 2006 to bring this stunning fusion to UK audiences for the first time.

Sergio Monroy has developed a unique synthesis of flamenco and piano music, bringing an incredibly fluid and open style to the piano. His first album has been acclaimed in the new flamenco community for its freshness and accessible wedding of flamenco and jazz. Sergio fuses all the components of flamenco; the guitar, the ‘palmas' and the voice without imitating them bringing all the piano's melodic resources, rhythm and harmony into play. Monroy is set to tour the UK in spring to bring this stunning fusion to UK audiences for the first time.

Born in Cadiz in 1980 Sergio Monroy developed his love of the piano young. He trained in the Manuel de Falla Conservatory in Cadiz, where he developed technical prowess through dedication to the classics. However his love of flamenco drew him away from the staid environment of classical conservatory life and before long he found himself at odds with his tutors and dropping out.

Fortunately his timing was good; a new generation of flamenco players was emerging in Cadiz under the inspiration of established flamenco and jazz players such as Chano Domingues, Javier Rubial and Pedro Cortejosa. Jazz musicians in the south were finding new ways to fuse flamenco and jazz and this inspired Monroy.

However as an interpreter of flamenco the piano was not the usual tool and Cadiz could not take him further so Sergio uprooted and headed for Madrid to train under two of Spain's most innovative pianists; Arturo Pavon and Antonio Escobar.

Monroy returned to Cadiz in the mid-nineties where he performed his first solo work. With growing confidence the late nineties saw Monroy beginning his international career initially as backing musician in various flamenco tinged jazz projects but also increasingly as a solo artist receiving acclaim for performances in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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