Warren Galea is a guitarist, pianist, and composer from Malta. His third and latest album, Meditations - a series of solo guitar improvisations recorded across a period of around one year - was released in August 2023.
Warren has performed across Europe, the United States, and Asia. In 2019 he became the first Maltese artist to perform at the iconic Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City, playing with his trio in the Blue Note Jazz Festival. Other international performances have included Nublu 151, ShapeShifter Lab, Rockwood Music Hall, the Bitter End, and Williamsburg Music Center (NYC), the Honey Hive Gallery (San Francisco), the Octopus Literary Salon (Oakland), the Jazz Educators Network Conference (JEN) 2019 (Reno, Nevada), Katara European Jazz Festival (Doha, Qatar), the Malta Jazz Festival, the Dusseldorf Jazz Rally, Europe Day Festival (Vienna), Teatro Adriano (Cagliari, Sardegna) 'Les Sons d' Une Ile’ (Paris), DDC, and The Water Cube (Beijing).
On his second album, Diadems, Troubadours, (December 2022), which travels across multiple genres, Warren acts as composer, instrumentalist, and producer. In May 2019 he released his debut album - The Odyssey, with Andy McKee on bass and Adam Nussbaum on drums. In 2014 Warren was awarded first place in the Malta Jazz Contest. The following year he released an EP with F-Trio.
A graduate of the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City, his biggest five influences are Mozart, Charlie Parker, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, and Jimi Hendrix.