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Andrés Ortiz Villalba

Fundador y Presidente de la Asociación

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Andrés Ortiz Villalba is born in Bogotà, Colombia, in 1978. Swiss and Colombian citizenship. At a very young age he approaches folkloric music through learning to play the organ. He pursues his studies on the piano, at first privately with Maestro Betancourt, later through professional studies at the Universidad El Bosque of Bogotà. In 2001 he resettles to Barcelona, Spain, in order to specialise in jazz performance at the Aula del Conservatori del Liceu, affiliated to the Berklee College of Music, Boston. He participates in various composition and improvisation workshops held by Bebo Valdés, Chick Corea and Bobby Mc Ferrin.

The time spent in Spain allows him to experiment in composition in numerous musical genres, achieving original compoositions for theatre and bands. He performs in all best-known clubs (Jamboree Jazz Club, Bel-Luna Jazz Club, Cova del Drac, Sidecar, etc.) and is featured by the Festival de la Mercé, Festival de Jazz de Barcelona, Festival de musicas del mundo de Vic. He collaborates closely with diverse theatre companies, as well as with the famed Catalan stage director Manel Barceló, for whom he composes original music and performs at renown festivals such as the Festival del Grec 2003 with the play Animalmusic. Working as composer, arranger and keyboardist of the latin band Raspa, he wins the 2007 Diversons competition of the Obra Social Fundación La Caixa, holding a tour all over Spain and Portugal.

The same year his composition “Cabeza de ratón” for the rock band La Fe wins the prize for best soundtrack at the Festival de Ovalle, Chile, where it is featured in director Klich Lopez’s short film Collar de Perlas. Next to his activity as pianist and composer he founds and directs various festivals, such as the Street Artist Festival in various communities of the province of Barcelona, during five consecutive years.

In 2008 he moves to Switzerland, founding and running the Smac, Scuola di Musica e Arti Creative (School of Music and Creative Arts), where he also teaches. Over the past few years he has been developing his personal musical project, exploring the composition of music in the jazz idiom, coupled with traditional Colombian and South American rhythms: Andrés Ortiz Trio (2011-2016) y Andrés Ortiz 5et (2016-2019).

Since 2021 he has founded the Latin music group Super RAM and manages cultural and musical projects between Switzerland and Colombia.

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Lara Lupi Ortiz

Co-fundadora y Secretaria de la Asociación

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Lara was born in Locarno, Switzerland, in 1981. From a young age she developed a great passion for the figurative arts and therefore embarked on her artistic journey after attending literary high school. He attended the introductory course at the Department of Visual Communication of SUPSI in Lugano and in 2001 he enrolled at the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio (USI, University of Italian Switzerland), where in 2004 he obtained the Erasmus scholarship at the ETSAB, Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, ​​Spain. In 2005 he decided to reconnect with the world of graphics and attended IDEP, Escuela Superior de Diseño (Universitat Abat Oliba, CEU) where in 2007 he obtained a high school diploma in graphic design, illustration and art direction.

As professional experience, he collaborated in 2000 in the graphics section of RSI, Radio and Television of Italian Switzerland and in 2003 he moved to Barcelona where he worked at the Josep Mias i Gifre architecture studio.Between 2003 and 2008 she was the organizer and animator of the Festival Artistas en las calles in the cities of Vilassar de Mar and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona, ​​Spain) for 5 consecutive years and was the creator of the corporate image of the Festival itself (with your association ‘Zona Arte’). Also in those years he carried out professional work as a freelance graphic designer for various companies, associations and artists in Barcelona and simultaneously worked at the Xavier Bas graphics studio. In 2007 she was a teacher in the drawing and editorial project area for 4th year students at IDEP, Escuela Superior de Diseño, Barcelona and participated as an illustrator in the Iguapop Gallery exhibition "Pinocho". In 2008 she decided to found SMAC, School of Music and Creative Arts in Chiasso, together with her husband, where she worked as a teacher and teaching coordinator. In 2009 he was a teacher for the after-school graphic arts programs organized by the management of the elementary schools for children of the last SI cycle and first SE cycle. In 2011 he collaborated with the Lugano Art Museum as part of the Hugo Pratt exhibition, creating comics ateliers. From 2009 to 2014 he taught as a teacher at the SSSAA University in Lugano in the web design area to graduating students.
From its foundation in 2009 until 2020 it was in charge of the Graphic and Pictorial Arts section, giving various annual workshops and courses to children, teenagers and adults.Today he dedicates himself completely to the management, events and educational coordination of SMAC.

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