About
Warren Galea is a Maltese Jazz Guitarist, Pianist, and Composer whose work blends Modern Jazz language with Classical structures and experimental composition. He has performed across Europe, the United States, and Asia. In May 2019 he released his debut album: The Odyssey, featuring Andy McKee on bass and Adam Nussbaum on drums. Later that year 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, Williamsburg Music Center (NYC), the Honey Hive Gallery (San Francisco), the Octopus Literary Salon (Oakland), the Jazz Educators Network Conference (JEN) 2019 (Reno, Nevada), DDC, The Water Cube (Beijing), 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).
Warren’s fourth and latest release, Twelve-Tone Suite (November 2025) is a composition for multiple guitars in 4 movements, all based on a single twelve-tone row. His third album, Meditations - a series of solo guitar improvisations recorded across a period of around one year - was released in August 2023. On his second album: Diadems, Troubadours, (December 2022), which travels across multiple genres, Warren acts as composer, instrumentalist, and producer.
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.
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