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Pianist, producer and composer Pablo Vergara has made a mark in the New York scene by working with a wide array of artists in the most diverse musical contexts. Classically trained in his native Chile, Pablo moved to the US to study at Harlem's City College with distinguished professor Ron Carter. Since then he has worked with artists like tenor saxophone legend Gato Barbieri, Grammy Award winner Dave Valentin, Bebel Gilberto, Antonio Hart, Jay Rodriguez, Victor Jones, Greg Tardy, Alfredo de la Fe, Valery Ponomarev, Andy Gonzalez, Benny Reid, Santi Debriano and the Chico O’Farill Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra. Vergara's music interests are wide and diverse. He performed extensively across the US with Turkish Sufi Music virtuoso Omar Faruk Tekbilek. He recently completed a European tour with R&B and Funk legends Brass Construction and B.T. Express. He has been a guest artist with the Grammy Nominated band The Groove Collective and he was the musical director of Anath’s Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, which performed at the Super Bowl XXVII in San Diego, California. Pablo Vergara has traveled the world, playing jazz and world music festivals across Europe, the US, Australia, South America and the Caribbean. His performance credits include Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, Bumbershoot Music Festival in Seattle, New York Central Park Summerstage, Paris' Le Zenith, Marseille's Fiesta des Suds, Spain's Santander Festival and Australia's Sidney Festival, amongst many others. Mr. Vergara graduated from Universidad Catolica de Chile with a B.A. in Journalism and a M.A. in Art History & Theory. Pablo lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with his wife Anath and Sushi the fish. And he actually feels a little weird about writing in third person.