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Paula Shocron

Pianist, composer, performer and educator, born in Rosario, and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was trained as a classical pianist, from the age of 5, and later studied Composition at Escuela de Música de la Universidad de Rosario (National University). Her musical activity was always focused on improvisation, going deeply in jazz tradition at first, and then opening her language to a more personal (free) music, even extending to other artistic disciplines, (dance, theatre, poetry, etc). Today she has more than 20 records as a leader or co-leader. The most popular "Tensegridad" with SLD Trio, (Germán Lamonega on bass and Pablo Díaz on drums), was released on the well-known Swiss label hatOLOGY and had excellent international reviews. On the other hand she also co-leads with other artists the independent label Nendo Dango Records. Albums like Cooperative Sound, (along with several artists from NY and co- produced with the organization Continuum Culture & Arts, Inc) Emptying the Self (with William Parker and Pablo Díaz), Geograficciones (along with Andrew Drury and other Argentine musicians) or Future Retrospection (together with Kristin Norderval and Pablo Díaz) were released on this label. As a dancer / performer, she trained with Lucas Condró, Agustina Sario, Matthieu Perpoint, Diana Szeimblum, Amparo González, Juan Onofri Barbato and Andrea Manso. She founded the project called IMUDA, (from 2010 to 2017), an interdisciplinary project that showed the need to investigate into the connections between dance and music. It was the basis for the workshop El Cuerpo Rítmico (created in 2016). Now, this permanent workshop is her main personal space for investigation and creation in music and performance. She also co-leads the performative project “Algo en un Espacio Vacío” with drummer Pablo Díaz. They toured several times around Argentina, NY in the U.S and several European Cities. In January 2019 she was awarded by Robert Bielecki Foundation (NY) Since 2006 he is a full professor in the Jazz Career at Conservatorio Manuel de Falla. More info: www.paulashocron.com.ar www.nendodango.bandcamp.com https://rdbf.org/2019-recipients/ https://www.youtube.com/IMUDA

Awards

Awards: Clarin, Jazz revelation 2005 Musi 2005, Contemporary Jazz. Robert Bielecki Foundation, travel grant 2019

Paula Shocron, Nendo Dango & Steven Bernstein

by Maurice Hogue
November 10, 2021

Following up on music by Argentinean pianist, Paula Shocron, led me to Nendo Dango Records, the Buenos Aires label run by Shocron and her partner, drummer Pablo Diaz. This episode features very forward-thinking music from several Nendo Dango releases. There's also more piano from a new recording by Australian Alister Spence and Japan's Satoko Fujii. Their second duo album, Any News, was created during the pandemic via the internet entirely. Steven Bernstein's latest project with his Millennial Territory Orchestra features ...

Album Review

Paula Shocron & Pablo Diaz: Diálogos

by John Sharpe
September 1, 2019

Argentinian pianist Paula Shocron and drummer Pablo Díaz have already reached out to embrace like-minded spirits in New York, including bassist William Parker on Emptying The Self (NendoDango Records, 2017), and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter on Co-operative Sound #2 (NendoDango Records, 2017). They similarly returned to New York to record Diálogos, but this time they sought out their countryman clarinetist Guillermo Gregorio, who relocated to the US many years before. Together they inscribe a series of miniatures where atmosphere and timbral ...

Year in Review

Most Read Articles: 2018

by Michael Ricci
January 1, 2019

All About Jazz tracks how often an article is read, and the articles listed below represent our most popular in 2018. Interviews Leonardo Pavkovic: Nothing is Ordinary by Chris M. Slawecki Published: March 16, 2018 History of Jazz Monk's Trumpets by Matt Lavelle Published: March 2, 2018 Interviews Paula Shocron: Paths to a New Sound by Jakob Baekgaard ...

Album Review

Paula Shocron: Los Vínculos

Read "Los Vínculos" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 1, 2018

In a sense, every musician is in a dialog with his or her own past, reshaping lessons that have been learned long ago in a quest for a new expression. However, it is very rare to encounter a dialog that is as explicit as the one that takes place on Argentinian pianist Paula Shocron's solo record Los Vínculos. The album is a dialog with a practice tape of a young Shocron playing J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. In ...

Album Review

Paula Shocron, Germán Lamonega, Pablo Diaz: Tensegridad

Read "Tensegridad" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
May 7, 2018

Una pianista di Rosario, un bassista e un batterista dell'area di Buenos Aires, età media qualche anno sopra i trenta, compongono uno dei trii pianistici più eccitanti che ci sia capitato di ascoltare da un po' di tempo in qua. La formula, si sa, è stereotipata, tipizzata, come nessun'altra, per cui se il vento che attraversa un'incisione che magari neppure ci aspettiamo soffia in una direzione sufficientemente personale il piacere è doppio. È quanto accade appunto in questo album, inciso ...

Interview

Paula Shocron: Paths to a New Sound

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 19, 2018

When Werner X. Uehlinger, the founder of Hat Hut Records, was asked about a statement on why he liked Argentinian pianist Paula Shocron's music, the answer was clear, short and succinct: “The quality of surprise." Uehlinger discovered Shocron's music through her work with the SLD Trio and he liked their debut Anfitrión so much that the group's second album, Tensegridad, was released on his label, entering the prominent company of pianists like Cecil Taylor, Marc Copland, Matthew Shipp, Myra Melford ...

Multiple Reviews

The Poetry of Places: Paula Shocron and Bjørn Solli

by Jakob Baekgaard
October 20, 2014

There is something about places. A particular place can create a special mood. When it comes to music, a place can create a unique frame that adds inspiration and ambience. Just think of the music recorded at the Village Vanguard. The name itself is enough to send shivers down the spine. However, unique musical places do not have to be connected with legendary venues. Sometimes, a surprising setting can have an equally enchanting effect and this is ...

“When Werner X. Uehlinger, the founder of Hat Hut Records, was asked about a statement on why he liked Argentinian pianist Paula Shocron's music, the answer was clear, short and succinct: ‘The quality of surprise’ “…”Shocron has formed an original musical expression that is open, intuitive and free. She is still searching while acknowledging the musical achievements of the past and the values of tradition”… Jakob Baekgaard/ AAJ https://www.allaboutjazz.com/paula-shocron-paths-to-a-new-sound-paula-shocron-by-jakob-baekgaard.php

...“Shocron creates a beautiful artistic statement out of this cognitive—and now musical— dissonance”… Alexander Dubovoy/The Free Jazz Blog http://www.freejazzblog.org/2019/02/new-sounds-from-argentina.html

Primary Instrument

Piano

Location

Buenos Aires

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

Conservatorio Superior de Música "Manuel de Falla" Jazz Career Workshop "El Cuerpo Ritmico": a personal space for investigation into the connections between dance and music.