Jazz pianist Esteban Castro wants to take the audience on a journey when he's on stage — to create something they've never heard that still feels relatable.
as well as several classical competitions. He's currently a student at the Juilliard School.
Castro, who's from Hackensack, New Jersey, began lessons after his parents saw him take to a toy piano as a child. He began to compose his own classical works. When he started to improvise, a teacher suggested he try jazz. So he started to study it — and said he found himself in a healthier headspace while doing so.
"I love improvisation. I love the freedom that it gives me as the performer," he said."A lot of time when I'm playing classical, especially solo piano classical music, I start feeling like, 'I don't want to make a mistake here. I don't want to mess up' rather than being in the moment and playing the music for what it is."
The pianist still practices and listens to classical music, but he now focuses on jazz. Castro also composes. He was commissioned for an arrangement by the
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