María Toro (A Coruña) has the healthy ambition of someone who looks in all directions. At the time that she achieved her Higher Diploma in the flute from her home town Conservatoire, she had already trained as a ballerina, singer and panderetera (tambourine player) of traditional Galician and Portuguese music.

In the next step in her career, jazz was the star, and it took her to the Escuela de Música Creativa (School of Creative Music) in Madrid. There she widened her training thanks to an AIE (Spanish association of performing artists) grant; she obtained a special honorary mention (2005) and then took a generational change and became a teacher in the same classrooms that saw her grow as a jazz artist.

Thanks to her astonishing versatility to take up different styles and enquire about her possibilities, she also trained in flamenco. To date she has worked in this field with different companies and has performed all over Spain and Latin America accompanying artists such as Pastora Vega and Agustín Carbonell “El bola”.

But her multi-faceted curiosity does not stop there. With the progressive rock group Amoeba Split she registered as a flautist and singer on their first recording. She has also researched Latin jazz, electronic music and has studied music for cinema… and last of all she left us for New York where she has already played at Blue Note and has shared the stage with musicians such as Jack DeJohnette.

María Toro – Flauta
Xan Campos – Piano
Toño Miguel – Contrabajo
Carlos López – Batería