About
About
Truyols Music endeavors to re-center the arts as an essential pillar of the human experience and of a healthy society through the performance and education of music
My name is Antonio Truyols. I am a Latino pianist and composer of Peruvian, Spanish, and Puerto Rican descent. I am an American, born and raised in Maryland, in the suburbs of Washington, DC. I have performed and taught on four continents. My great-grandfather Antonio Truyols was a baritone opera singer in civil-war Mallorca, Spain. Music has found its way through my family to me, and I am now an exploring musician. If you want to read my professional biography, click HERE.
Music was my first love. My mother gave me a strong blues, jazz, and Latinx influence, and paid for my piano lessons. My father made sure my Peruvian music and dance culture was buried deep in my psyche. The folkloric music and Peruvian cooking embraced my childhood. I earned two national titles in Marinera Norteña, a folk dance from Peru. My formative years were saturated in elegant cultures curated masterfully by people of color. It is my greatest source of artistic impetus.
I studied jazz and classical in college, but I play any music that makes me happy. My wife, Gizem, is a classically-trained violist from Turkey who shares my artistic vision, and we make music together and with others. She, too, was fascinated by many genres of music. With her addition to my projects, Truyols Music quickly evolved into a multi-genre collection of music projects. We make music to foster communities; thus society. One that values music and the arts, and appreciates them for their ability to reflect humanity and move us towards a place of healing and peace.
Find us on TikTok, Spotify, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. Support and connect with us by subscribing to our social media channels. If you enjoy our music, and you feel so inclined, click the button to the right to financially support our ongoing and future projects. Our music can be found on all streaming platforms, but you can also purchase it directly from us on the Our Music page. See some of the amazing artists we have worked with HERE.
Thanks for listening!
Antonio in performance in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia
Gizem Yücel, viola
In performance with Wynton Marsalis, NYC
Truyols music projects:
REmote big band
During quarantine, musicians suffered from lack of work and community. I reached out to some of my friends and organized the Remote Big Band, a 17-piece jazz orchestra that recorded all of their parts from home. It was a lot of fun and it was a great way to support the musician community with work. Our First track, “Another Day in Quarantine” was a portrait of Count Basie. On our second track, “The Joy You Bring,” we were joined by NEA Jazz Master and multi-grammy-winning legend Paquito D’Rivera. We were also joined by a string section led by Gizem. Later, we recorded one of our favorite songs “What If,” and shot a fun music video in our nearby Flushing Meadows Park, aka Corona Park (no relation). Check out all of the Remote Big Band tracks by clicking HERE.
Unit Three
Unit Three is a jazz piano trio of stellar creatives. Together they have won national and international awards including the Downbeat award for best jazz arrangement and Best Band in the Bucharest International Jazz Competition. They have recorded with Joel Frahm, Lee Konitz, and John Ellis. They have performed with Peter Bernstein, Delfeayo Marsalis and Marcus Printup of the Lincon Center Jazz Orchestra. They recorded two studio albums that are streaming now under Truyols Music. Listen HERE.
Bukovina Preludes
The New European Strings Chamber Orchestra (NES) founded and directed by violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky celebrated its thirty year anniversary in 2020. To commemorate the event, Sitkovetsky transcribed a series of seven Bukovina Preludes by Leonid Desyatnikov while in lockdown. Gizem of Truyols Music plays viola and I had the opportunity to design the visuals for this virtual work. The pieces are beautiful, some haunting, but all revealing their deep-seeded heritage in the Bukovina region. Click HERE to listen and watch the whole set on our YouTube Channel!
