From jazz to Latin - Olivier Manoury and Kjartan Valdemarsson play bandoneon and piano

Olivier Manoury on bandoneon and Kjartan Valdemarson on piano have played together for a long time. They will perform world music with jazz and latin flavour.

Olivier Manoury was born in France. He has studied art for a long time and is a well known bandoneon player in France. He has composed music for films, TV, theaters and dance, played on many records and performed in many countries in Europe and South America. He plays both tango and jazz with groups like Tangoneon, Tempo Di Tango and Le Grand Tango. 

Kjartan Valdemarsson is an Icelandic jazz pianist and a composer. He studied piano in Iceland and later at Berklee College of Music. He is a piano teacher and plays piano at Iceland University of the Arts and for Íslenski dansflokkurinn (Icelandic dancegroup). He has played for a long time in the Icelandic jazz scene but also in pop music. He works in studios both as keyboard player and producer. He has arranged music for The Icelandic symphonic orchestra and Reykjavík Bigband.