Warren Galea is a Maltese guitarist, pianist, and composer. His third and latest album - Meditations, a collection of solo guitar improvisations recorded across a period of around one year, was released in August 2023.
International live performances have included The Blue Note Jazz Festival, Nublu 151, ShapeShifter Lab, Rockwood Music Hall (NYC), the Honey Hive Gallery (San Francisco), the Octopus Literary Salon (Oakland), the Jazz Educators Network Conference (JEN) 2019 (Reno, Nevada), the Malta Jazz Festival, the Dusseldorf Jazz Rally, Europe Day Festival (Vienna), Teatro Adriano (Cagliari, Sardegna) and 'Les Sons d' Une Ile'(Paris).
His second album, Diadems, Troubadours, released in December 2022, travels across multiple genres and compositional forms. The album sees Warren acting as composer, instrumentalist and producer.
In May 2019 he released his debut album - The Odyssey, recorded at Trading 8s Studios in New Jersey - a jazz trio record 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, his biggest five influences are Mozart, Charlie Parker, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, and Jimi Hendrix.
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