Santiago Quintans

Santiago Quintans is a Spanish guitarist, composer and educator based in Paris. He studied jazz guitar and composition at the University of Miami before moving to France in 2004, developing a career that connects contemporary jazz, minimalism, experimental music and free improvisation.

He has performed with Tony Malaby, Ramon Lopez, Paul Rogers and other improvisers, and recorded music by Steve Reich for electric guitar. Since 2015 he has taught guitar and improvisation at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Creative Sources released Future Folk (CS802), a trio with Paul Rogers on double bass and Ramón López on percussion.