BIOGRAPHY Alexey León (Manzanillo, Cuba, 1988) He received classical and jazz education at the Moscow Gnesin Music Academy. He represented the Gnesin Academy at the “BT River of Music Festival”, organized by the British Council, playing in the Matthew Herbert Big Band during the Olympic Games. London, in 2012. In 2013 he received the Michel Camilo scholarship to study a Master's in Contemporary Music at the Berklee College of Music in Valencia, and study with Perico Sambeat. He has won the First Prize in the contest for young jazz musicians "Jojazz", (Havana, Cuba), the Juan Claudio Cifuentes Award for "best soloist" from the Jaime I University (Castellón, Valencia) and Gnesin Jazz Competition from Moscow Gnesin Music Academy. Since 2015 he has been part of the pedagogical team of the Sedajazz Musicians Collective, Valencia, where he teaches saxophone, combo and theory classes. In parallel, he is developing different artistic projects, among which are "Lecuona, the color of Cuba" (a tribute to the Cuban composer, Ernesto Lecuona) and "El Tango: Borges & Piazzolla", created exclusively for Fifty-Fifty Jazz & Poetry Festival (Avilés, Spain), in collaboration with Berklee College of Music, Valencia. He has five albums: "Cuba meets Russia" (2015), "Cuban connection" (2018), "Okudzhava for my mother" (2020), "Influenciado" (2022) and "Lecuona, the color of Cuba" (2023). In 2017 Alexey released Alexey Leon Quintet "Cuban Connection" featuring Perico Sambeat, Ivan 'Melon' Lewis and Carlos Sarduy. In 2018 “Cuban connection” was nominated to Valencia’s Carles Santos Prize for "Best Jazz Album" and reached the first round of the Latin Grammys. "Influenciado" was released on One World Records in December 2022. Influenciado received acclaim from critics internationnally and was nominated to Valencia’s Carles Santos Prize for "Best Jazz Album" and reached the first round of the Latin Grammys. Alexey Leon performed with Perico Sambeat, Jesus Santandreu, Marc Miralta, Danilo Perez and Berklee Global Jazz Institute, Jack Walrath, Oriente Lopez, Mauricio Zottarelli, Alain Perez, Georvis Pico, Reinier Elizarde 'Negron', Javier 'Caramelo de Cuba' Masso Gutierrez, Yoel Paez, Ivan 'Melon' Lewis, Ariel Bringuez, Pedro Pablo Rodriguez, Carlos Sarduy, Munir Hossn, Martin Leiton, Rodney Barreto, Evgeny Lebedev, Makar Novikov and Ignat Kravtsov among other musicians.​ He performed at London BT River of Music Festival, Amersfoort Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, Getxo Jazz Festival in Spain, Gnesin Jazz in Moscow, Valencia Jazz Festival, Porton de Jazz in Malaga, Jazz I Am in Barcelona, Jazz Eñe and UPV Jazz Festival in Valencia, Alba Jazz in Turin and many more.