Consuelo Candelaria Trio

Live music is back in the Jazz Baroness Room at The Mad Monkfish! Dinner reservations are recommended. Please specify that you want a table in the Jazz Baroness Room.
1st Show: 7:00-8:15pm   and   2nd Show: 8:45-10:00pm

Consuelo Candelaria, piano
Ron Mahdi, acoustic bass
Francisco Mela, drums

Recorded Paula Cole’s latest record “Ballads” 2018

Performances with Curtis Fuller, Billy Pierce, Billy Hart, Don Braden, Lewis Nash, Louis Hayes, Pat LaBarbara, Joe Morelo, Marvin “Smitty” Smith, Jeff Watts, Paula Cole, and many others.

Performances and recordings with the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra with the Bill Pierce Quintet for the King of Thailand, recorded by Abbey Roads Studio remote, performed for the President of Costa Rica with Victor Mendoza and others

Dennis Brennan (Iodine Bros), Emiel Van Egdom featuring Bobby Militello, Consuelo-Jon Quintet (original compositions) featuring Bill Pierce, The Don Houge Quintet, and multiple recordings as sideman

Tours of Asia, Europe, U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean

Recordings as a leader: Last Sunday Morning by the Consuelo-Jon Quintet on Accurate Records, “When They Danced” by Consuelo Candelaria featuring Kevin Barry, “La Jornada” recording in 2009

A Grand prize winner of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in Jazz category

Currently working on a new recording this year featuring Kevin Barry. Release date 2018-19

B.M., Berklee College of Music

Professor Berklee College, Ensemble Department

“From listening to her recordings I realized she has become one of the great masters of jazz piano and a first rate composer. It is an honor and privilege to give her my highest endorsement.” ~DONALD BROWN, World renowned pianist/composer/educator