SALSAKOMPANIET’S OFFICIAL MUSICIANS
Salsakompaniet is proud to present our official professional musicians. We are proud to offer high quality teaching in our dance classes with live music by our musicians. Get to know them:
YASSER SCHØYEN RODRIGUEZ
Yasser was born in 1984 in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. He started playing the clarinet when he was 10 years old, and later started playing the saxophone as well. As only a 15-year-old he was a member in Cuba’s National Band. Yasser started as a professional musician at the age of only16 years old, with the blessing of his parents. His passion for music continued to grow as he started to study Cuban percussion. He then got the opportunity to play on stages across Cuba with some of the country’s biggest musicians.
Later on, Yasser has experimented with different rhythms and music genres so he can play all kinds of music. Today Yasser plays Bongo, congas, timbal, Cuban percussion, Djembe and Sax.
TITO GUEAVARA
Tito Guevara is an ecuatorian musician that has been playing for over 30 years in Ecuador, France, UK and and Norway. Tito is mainly a master conga player, but he dominates the whole latin percussion family of instruments, such as: bongos, timbals, pandero, guiro, and maracas. In the world of Andean music, he is an experienced flute player. He is a craftaman, creating his own instruments, being percussion or Andean flutes. Since 2004 he is the creator and director of the most respected salsa band in Oslo, Sonora Cimarrón. Besides working with his salsa band, Tito works with his other project, Salsa Brava Quintet and cooperates with other latin jazz groups. He works in the Norwegian church as a musician and teaches percussion at the Music High School in Oslo, Norway.
ANTONIO TORNER
Antonio is Salsakompaniet’s official musician.
