Ivanna Cuesta
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Jazz View: Ivanna Cuesta - A Letter to the Earth
All About Jazz: Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez - A Letter to the Earth
Tim Larsen Jun. 13, 2024
Mike Jurkovic Jun. 26, 2024
I have listened to one of the best pleas for saving our planet. It comes from Dominican Republic drummer, composer, and educator, Ivanna Cuestra Gonzalez’s debut album, A LETTER TO THE EARTH.
From the onset of its spiraling, corkscrew self, A Letter to the Earth finds two ever-emerging forces—pianist Kris Davis and drummer Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez—locked into the mindset that home base (Earth) is screwed-up and (we) had better do something about it!
Creating New Paths with Next Jazz Legacy
Terry Perkins Feb. 14, 2023
New initiative aims to make world of jazz more inclusive
Jeffrey Brown Jul 19, 2022
The results came in when seven musicians were selected for the 2022 class: Anastassiya Petrova (piano/organ), Ivanna Cuesta (drums), Lexi Hamner (voice/trombone), Keyanna Hutchinson (guitar), Alexis Lombre (piano), Loke Risberg (guitar) and Kalia Vandever (trombone).
Thirty-year-old Ivanna Cuesta Gonzalez grew up listening to music with her father in the Dominican Republic, then one day came across a drum set in church.
On The Road Again: Three European Jazz Festivals
Thomas Conrad Nov 10, 2022
Ivanna Cuesta, la dominicana que ganó el concurso mundial de bateristas
Severo Rivera Jan. 07, 2020
Two impressive young players who had been Davis's students at the Berklee College of Music in Boston made their European debuts: Milena Casado (flugelhorn) and Ivanna Cuesta (drums).
Ivanna Cuesta González es una joven baterista que gracias a su talento ha comenzado a brillar en el extranjero. El pasado año se alzó con el primer lugar en el concurso “Hit like a Girl 2019”, un concurso mundial de percusionistas y bateristas femeninas que se desarrolla en Estados Unidos.
