Oscar Peñas Cambray (born August 13, 1972) is a jazz composer-guitarist from Spain based in New York.

Biography

Oscar Peñas is a Catalan-American composer-guitarist born in Barcelona, Spain. In 2007, after completing his musical education at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Peñas moved to New York City. At seventeen, he attended the Taller de Músics in Barcelona. In 1997 he enrolled at

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. At the same time, he led the Oscar Peñas Group (a.k.a. Astronautus). With this group, he recorded ''Astronautus'' (2003) and ''The Return of Astronautus'' (2005), both with the label

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. In 2005 Peñas was awarded a scholarship and decided to earn his Master's in Jazz Studies at the New England Conservatory. He graduated in 2007. Afterward, Peñas moved to New York City. In November 2011, he self-produced and released his third album and first U.S. release, ''From Now On'' (BJU Records). ''Music of Departures and Returns'', released in 2014, was his fourth album.

Discography

* ''Almadraba'' (Musikoz, 2022) * ''Music of Departures and Returns'' (Musikoz, 2014) * ''From Now On'' (

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, 2011) * ''The Return of Astronautus'' (

, 2005) * ''Astronautus'' (

, 2003)

References

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