Omar Rodriguez Calvo

Omar Rodriguez Calvo was born August 19, 1973 in Matanzas on Cuba. In 1984 he began to study classic music in Matanzas Cuba (E. V. A.) from 1988-1994 in La Habana (E. N. A.) and (I. S. A.) acoustic bass, electric bass, classic, and jazz. He has played with, Ramon Valle, Hamburger Symphoniker, NDR Bigband, Joe Gallardo, Matthias Höfs, Jenae Philharmonie, Tingvall-trio, Kurt Elling, Orlando "Maraca" Valle, Nils Landgren, Horacio „El Negro“ Hernandez, Perico Sambeat, Ernesto Simpson, Roy Hargrove, Mike Stern, Omar Sosa, Jesse van Ruller, Gerardo Núñez, Chano Dominguez, Ulf Wakenius, Orange Blue, Anette Maiburg, the Formation Classica Cubana, hr-Bigband (Parcifal Goes Habanna).

. Nomination for the ECHO Jazz in 2016 as Instrumentalist of the Year National Bass / Bass guitar
. Nomination for the ECHO Jazz in 2015 as Instrumentalist of the Year National Bass / Bass guitar
. Five Jazz Awards in gold with the Tingvall Trio
. International Impala Award for VÄGEN from Skip Records
. 2-ECHO-Jazz with Tingvall-Trio 2012
. HANS- with Tingvall-Trio "Hamburger Produktion des Jahres" 2011
. ECHO-Jazz with Tingvall-Trio 2010
. ECHO-Klassik with Classica Cubana 2009