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I have launched a Kickstarter!
Thank you for investing in my project.

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Kickstarter Ends In:Countdown

Reward Packages Include:

Deck of Cards

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Premiere Show Tickets

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Tote Bags

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Feather Prints

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Visit my store for CDs, vinyls and merchandise!

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New Album 2020!
Please stay tuned...

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Working on something really exciting for next year. Can’t wait to share it with everyone! □ by @mister0420

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With my piano professor Tamara Goldstein.

2019
​Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival

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Listening to my favorite composer Scott Joplin performed by my favorite ragtime performer Ms. Taslimah Bey. It was an honor to meet her and hear her fantastic performances. She signed her CD for me and I gifted her a Memory Maze CD. It was fun to talk with her and her sister throughout the festival!

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Performing Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag □ and my composition Barcelona Tango-Rag at the night jam session. Total blast to spend time hanging out with all these ragtime musicians!

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Our non profit, the Spotlight Foundation, presents...
Taco Passport 2019
Now available in Boulder & Denver!
Learn more and buy at tacopassport.com. 100% proceeds go to local and international charities!

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Good News Friyay!! 2019 Taco Passports for Denver and Boulder are now available for purchase and will be shipping out May 1st! Place your order today at tacopassport.com to support great charities, local businesses, and your love of tacos!!!

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Announcing my big new project... on Univision! En español, ¡claro! Don’t miss it. 10pm news tonight. □5/9/2018 #tacopassport

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With the $3,646.61 Taco Passport donation to Denver’s Food Bank of the Rockies @foodbankrockies they’ll be able to provide nearly 15,000 meals ($1=4 meals). Please check out the video to hear their Director of Marketing and Community Relations Janie Gianotsos give details on how you can partner with them! Additional information at foodbankrockies.org

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Fue un placer conocer a @belensmole para hacer entrevista con @univision Gracias a todos que han comprado su pasaporte! Visite la sección de prensa en TacoPassport.com para ver el vídeo entero. □ It was a pleasure meeting Belén Smole for an interview with Univision. Thank you to everyone who has bought their passport! Visit our press section of TacoPassport.com to watch the full video. #Repost @tacopassport

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2019
The American Prize Semi-Finalist
Composition, Solo Piano Performance

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2018
​Comptine d'un autre été, l'après-midi

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Magically dreamy, calming and reflective, you won't want to miss pianist Ben Raznick's cover from French motion picture Amélie.
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2018
Alpha Sigma Iota Distinguished "Friend of the Arts"
Thank you Boulder Alumnae Chapter!

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2017
​Back to Black

F​eaturing piano, vocals, cello and double bass, Back to Black is a brilliant classical crossover rendition paying homage to Amy Winehouse, recorded in Barcelona by international artists from USA, Spain & Cuba.
Ben Raznick - Arrangement and Piano
Inma Ortiz - Vocals
Martín Melendez - Cello
Pere Loewe - Double Bass

2017, 2018
Steinway & Sons Top Music Teacher Award

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Betsy Johnson visits my home piano studio to present my Top Music Teacher certificate from Steinway & Sons, as voted by Denver's Schmitt Music.
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I’m honored to be named a 2017 Steinway & Sons Top Music Teacher! Thank you Betsy Johnson, Barry Damerell, Denver’s Schmitt Music, and of course, Steinway & Sons!
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2017
Radio & Concerts

Radio

Mother Jones "Bite" Podcast featuring Ben Raznick at 0:01 and 22:05
Segment on Spain's Radio Sierra debuting Ben Raznick's Memory Maze

Denver Silent Film Festival

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The Other Side Theatre

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The Roxy Theatre

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2017
Tiny Desk Contest

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Memory Maze merchandise now available for purchase!

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2016
​Memory Maze officially available!​

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2016
​Memory Maze Premiere

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Reserved Seating: $15

Tables with Food/Drink Service

​Sold out!

Theatre Seating: $10

Rowed Seating with Bar Service

​Sold out!

Memory Maze Show Program
File Size: 643 kb
File Type: pdf
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Press Release 2017 - Sold Out Premiere
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2016
Recording Memory Maze in Barcelona

Martin Melendez, myself, Pere Loewe and Carlos Caro.
Recording solo piano.
Working with Marcelo Mercadante on his bandoneón recording.
In the control room.
Practicing and setting up microphones for the recording.
Listening to our recordings.

New Instagram...

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...and New Facebook!

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2014
Victoria Aja, Spanish Concert Pianist

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​Victoria Aja plays in Boulder, Colorado visiting from Bilbao, Spain. Featuring artists such as Isaac Albéniz, Manuel de Falla, Padre Jose Antonio Donostia
​y Joaquin Larregla. 

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​2011-2012
Spanish Piano Performance in Barcelona, Spain

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With my piano professor, Ludovica Mosca in Barcelona, Spain.
♫ Click Ludovica's photo to hear her play. ♫
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Performance with castanets and piano.
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"Pianists of Today" recital for Juan Pedro Carrero School of Music.
Repertoire:
​1. Danses gitanes, Sacro-Monte - Joaquin Turina

2. Córdoba - Isaac Albéniz
3. Canción y Danza no.VI - Federico Mompou
4. Bésame Mucho (with castanets) - ​Consuelo Velázquez

2012
Trio Con Brio at the St. Julien Hotel - Boulder, Colorado


​2012
Saturday evenings at Hotel Villa Emilia - Barcelona, Spain

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The Zinc Bar, located in the lobby of Hotel Villa Emilia.
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University of Wisconsin Alumni Magazine, 2012

​2010
Musician turned Spanish Web Series Actor?

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An episodic web series chronicling the adventures of an English teacher in small-town Spain.

Guess who plays the English teacher? Me.
And my lover? You'll have to watch to find out.

Click the picture below to watch the first episode of Pueblo!
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2011
​​Next Gig: From Andalucía to Barcelona...

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​2010
Ben Raznick - Tango y Folklore Argentino

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My first professional CD!
​Featuring Argentine tango, milonga, folklore, and two original compositions.

Summer, 2010
Article in Boulder's Daily Camera

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2010
​Boulder Weekly

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2010
Happy Hour at the Laughing Goat

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2010
Something Foreign Trio

My trio with Caroline Cotter and Cole Sigmon. We played anywhere and everywhere! From open mikes, assisted living homes, Boulder's Tonic Herban Lounge, to my first road trip tour across our country performing in Salt Lake City, Portland, and San Francisco - We had a blast! 

​Caroline continues to perform her music across the world and Cole plays in his Bluegrass group, HenScratch. Check them out!
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​2010
My Birthday Cake in Buenos Aires

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 Piano cake for my birthday made by my roommates when we lived above the Teatro Ciego! Click the photos above to learn more about the "Blind Theatre," an organization hosting performances that takes place in the complete darkness, run by a blind performing crew. It was an honor to be surrounded by brilliant artists!

2009
São Paulo Metro Station

For two weeks the city located ten upright pianos around the city, and any performer could take a seat at the piano and play a tune!
​Of course, I couldn't turn down the opportunity.

2009
El Ateneo Librería, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

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Playing piano on a beautiful Steinway.
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Inside the Ateneo: A historic theatre converted into bookstore.
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​Summer, 2009 and 2010
Pearl Street Mall - Boulder, Colorado

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My most memorable moments:

-A fellow who wished to hear the French National Anthem anytime I spotted him walking by. My reward was ALWAYS a two-dollar bill.

-A group of middle-schoolers, all involved in a musical play group who requested songs from Phantom of the Opera. It turned into a half-hour karaoke session.

-A Brazilian family visiting Boulder asked if I knew any Brazilian tunes. The chat inevitably ended with the hit song, Garota de Ipanema, (Girl from Ipanema)... Saudades!

-The Saturday night crowd... at night fall the karaoke songs became hits: Piano Man, Tiny Dancer and American Pie, to name a few.

​2008 
Senior Piano Recital - World Tour Premiere!
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Fun fact! I was a server at the Orpheum my senior year! I worked in the restaurant and at events and music shows... my perfect college job!
Repertoire:

1. Première Arabasque - Claude Debussy
2. Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor - Frédéric Chopin
3. Des Pas Sur La Neige - Claude Debussy
4. Moonlight, Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op.27 Movement III - Ludwig van Beethoven


"Ochenta Por Favor" Presents...
Sara Gabriela Pfender, Vocals
Ben Raznick, Piano
Tim Hallowell, Guitar

5. Canciones de amor - Julieta Venegas
6. The Very Thought of You - Billie Holiday
7. Love Song - Sara Bareilles


Commentary: 

I have studied my first four pieces throughout the past two semesters. They represent numerous different styles from the classical repertoire.
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The Arabesque was composed by Debussy in the late 1880s. French Romanticism had a great influence on Debussy's works. The opening arpeggio sets up the rest of the piece for its dreamy and colorful journey. The Fantasie-Impromptu is one of Chopin's most well known pieces. The intricate combination of both hands creates a natural intensity within each moving line. Des Pas Sur La Neige, (Footprints in the snow), written later in Debussy's life in 1910, evokes a resigned sadness and solitude. This piece has been considered to be one of Debussy's most melancholy pieces ever written. The "Moonlight" Sonata is most famous for its dark first movement, followed by a light and calm second movement. This final movement, on the other hand, is stormy and in constant action with rapid progressions.  

2006
Sophomore Piano "Razital"
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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1. Claire de Lune - Claude Debussy
2. Polonaise in A., Op. 40 - Frédéric Chopin
3. Consolation in D - Franz Liszt
4. Comptine d'un autre éte: L'apres midi - Yann Tiersen
5. Sunflower Slow Drag - Scott Joplin
6. Landed - Ben Folds
7/8. Prelude and Fugue No. 17 in A Flat Major - Johann Sebastian Bach
9. Pathétique Mov. I - Ludwig van Beethoven
10. Pathétique Mov. II - Ludwig van Beethoven
11. Pathétique Mov. III - Ludwig van Beethoven
12. New York State of Mind - Billy Joel

Senior High School Piano Recital, 2004

Repertoire:

​1. Prelude in C# Minor - Sergei Rachmaninoff
2. Postludium, Op. 13, No. 10 - Ernö Dohnányi
3. Golliwog's Cake Walk - Claude Debussy
4. Waltz, Op. 64, No. 1 - Frédéric Chopin
5. May Song - Op. 1, No. 3 - Enrique Granados
6. Prelude and Fugue, WTC Book 2, No. 15 - Johann Sebastian Bach
7. Maple Leaf Rag - Scott Joplin
8. Solace - Scott Joplin
9. Piano Man - Billy Joel
10. Carrying Cathy - Ben Folds
11. Bésame Mucho - Consuelo Velázquez
12. The Piano - Michael Nyman
13. Prelude #1 - George Gershwin
14. Prelude #3 - George Gershwin
15. Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, Mov. 1 - Edvard Grieg (Accompanied by Richard Capp)

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With my incredible childhood piano teacher, Judy Lambert.
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