Richard Peña Music

Here's the laydown of what to expect from each band variation:

Solo Guitar
- Jazz and American Songbook music performed only with guitar. Creates a relaxing ambiance that promotes being able to talk to others while being able to enjoy enriching melodies.

Jazz Guitar Trio
- The perfect balance of relaxing background music and upbeat jazz energy, melodies from standards and american songbook + originals. Creates a fuller musical ambiance that can be used for creating a rich musical enviroment at a low volume (to promote guests to talk to each other) or a concert like energy that allows guests to enjoy a profesional jazz experience.

Latin Jazz Trio
- A more upbeat energy that creates an exotic musical background to promote higher level interaction and movement amongst guests. Latin Jazz Standards and instrumentals, creates a musical ambiance perfect for motivating and mantaining the energy of the event going!

Jazz Bands (4 musicians or more)
- The more the merrier! The Jazz Band is perfect to bring any event to a concert like feel, where you can expect high energy music, latin grooves, jazz feels, fusion tunes and more! Best for bigger parts of the event, or in anticipation to a large ensemble (like salsa bands, big bands, etc).

Award-winning Puerto Rican guitarist Richard Peña is the one of the leading new-gen jazz musicians of Puerto Rico. His style intricately blends the traditional sounds of Latin music, the modern colors of post-bop/fusion jazz through the soothing warm sound of his guitar. The 23 year-old has been recognized as a Youth Jazz Ambassador (2015), has recorded 4 albums and has performed in international events such as the Berklee Highschool Jazz Festival (winner of the 2015 edition), Festival de Jazz de Carolina, Heineken Ventana al Jazz, Santo Domingo Jazz Festival and more

Peña has performed with players ranging from Latin Grammy Award Winners such as Miguel Zenón, Horacio El Negro Hernandez and Charlie Sepulveda to Latin singers Carlos Vives, Víctor Manuelle and Tito "El Bambino". By the age of 15, he had already recorded in the award-winning album "Ready for Departure" by Guess Who Jazz Quartet (awarded for Best New Production by the Fox Music USA Latin Music Awards in 2015). His band has been featured as a house band for T.V shows (Ellas y Tus Noches) and has composed jazz suites that have been heard in Puerto Rico’s finest theater, the Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré (Santurce).

Technical Requierments include:
- Being close or having close access to electricity
- Must notify if in need of bigger sound equipment (extra cabs and speakers, usually for events over 100 people outdoors, comes at an extra cost).