Bio
Miguel Landestoy is Jazz Pianist, Educator and Arts Administrator based out of Boston. As a “multi-hyphenate”, he is constantly looking towards the next step on his artistic journey and how he can better serve the artistic community.
The first of his family to be born and raised in the U.S, Miguel produces art that reflects his unique lived experience in the hopes that it might inspire others to do the same.
As an educator, Miguel strives to teach the whole person, using the piano as a guide toward confidence, empathy and respect for the human condition.
You can hear him on two recently released recording projects with 30+2 and the Brett Walberg Group. Nostalgia is a piano and saxophone duo recording project featuring a Landestoy original entitled “Haunt”, and In Between Dreams is a quintet recording where Miguel appears as a sideman to Boston based Saxophonist, Brett Walberg.
Miguel holds a B.M in music business from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and an M.M from the New England Conservatory in Contemporary Improvisation. Check out a recent arrangement of a piano piece by acclaimed Dominican Composer and distant relative Rafael “Bullumba” Landestoy performed at Jordan Hall.
If you would like to read more about his journey through life, academics, and music, check out this interview he did for Breaking Cycle, an online journal dedicated to publishing the stories of low income first generation American’s personal experiences navigating college and life.
Artist statement -
I create and lift up stories, through music and my words, that reflect my lived experience as a first generation, Afro-Latino man raised in systems that weren't made for me to succeed.
Those who lay in between the lines, the categories that society forcibly pushes us into, often feel the need for permission to exist. We do not need anyone's permission to exist.
We do not need permission to be happy.
We do not need permission to be healthy.
We do not need permission to feel fulfilled.
I make art that reveals my soul so that others who need permission may feel the freedom to express theirs