Juan David Agana

Juan David Agana is an award-winning jazz guitarist, orchestral composer, and recording artist, graduate from The Juilliard School. He was a semi-finalist at the prestigious Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Guitar Competition 2019 and is currently a composer in residence at The Miami Symphony Orchestra.

His improvisational style on the guitar, distinguished for its jagged melodies, unorthodox chord voicings, virtuosic technical ability and a vibrant, lyrical tone, signal his idiosyncratic mastery of the instrument, and thorough foundation on the traditions that catalyzed the worlds of Jazz and Caribbean music. Juan has performed in the most historic jazz stages of New York City; including Blue Note Jazz Club, Jazz At Lincoln Center, Dizzy’s Club, Smoke and 55 Bar. He has toured all across the country and internationally, performing in widely celebrated festivals such as The San Jose Jazz Festival, The Festival des Traditions Du Monde, The South Beach Jazz Festival, The Sisters Folk Festival, The Joshua Tree Music Festival, and various others.

As a composer with an elevated command of the symphonic landscape rare for his age, Juan has demonstrated a prodigious mastery of the art form. Capable of quenching the fearless thirst for polyphonic innovation that marks our times, while maintaining artistic equilibrium through the rooting of his melodies to the synthesis of musical folklore, particularly of his native Venezuela, Juan stands out as a promising voice, destined to propel the emergence of a new sound, and a message unequivocally human.