Nacho Arimany

Nacho Arimany is a master ethnic percussionist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, currently based in New York City. His music career began at age six as a classical piano student and singer with the Spanish National Choir and Orchestra, and he now works as a producer, performer, therapeutic musician, and educator.

Beyond his early classical training, Arimany has studied traditional rhythms from around the world, specializing in North African and Flamenco rhythms. He has a degree in Pedagogy and Philosophy from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has taught classes at many conservatories and universities, and is a faculty member at the New York Open Center’s Sound and Music Institute. Arimany has also developed drumming programs for women and juveniles in jail and detention, rhythm and tempo-based groups for children with sensory processing disorder, and autism, as well as adapting live percussive sound for clinical use in Pediatric Therapeutics. His innovative technique of Elemental Sounds and Rhythms is based on natural patterns of growth that promote brain function and body alignment.

Arimany’s critically acclaimed first album, Silence-Light (2007, Fresh Sound Records) with the Nacho Arimany World-Flamenco Sextet was consider one of the 10 top Jazz Albums of the Year by All About Jazz. Arimany has performed and recorded with Lionel Loueke, Lizz Wright, and Angelique Kidjo, among others. In 2014 Arimany debuted inTime, a 9-CD rhythm-based music-listening therapeutic method to improve brain function. It was composed, produced, and performed by Arimany, in collaboration with Sheila Allen and Advanced Brain Technologies.