Jazz Nights is a program with more than 20 years of experience dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of jazz in Mexico City. Throughout this time, it has established itself as a platform that offers musical experiences for audiences interested in contemporary art and music. Roberto Blanco Martínez is a pianist and composer, born in Mexico City; he was raised in a family whose profession is music; he receives his first lessons from his parents and adopts the piano as his instrument. Later he trained in modern harmony and jazz with Professor Antonio Bravo and in composition with Vincent Carver from the United Kingdom, solfeggio and both classical and modern harmony with the Cuban master Enrique Ricardo Portales.

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Event Schedules:

18:00 Access to exhibitions and complimentary drinks
19:45 p.m. Closing of the bar (admission to the museum with drinks is not allowed)
19:50 p.m. Opening of the auditorium
8:00 p.m. Closing of exhibitions
20:15 h Last access to the concert

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Roberto Blanco Martinez. Pianist and composer born in Mexico City; he was raised in a family whose profession is music; he received his first lessons from his parents and adopts the piano as his instrument. Later he trained in modern harmony and jazz with Professor Antonio Bravo and in composition with Vincent Carver from the United Kingdom, solfeggio and both classical and modern harmony with the Cuban master Enrique Ricardo Portales.

As an adult, he began to develop a growing taste for jazz, its styles and its liberties; the forms derived from it, as well as all music based on improvisation.

He has played in various jazz forums and clubs throughout Mexico; Blue Monk, El Zinco, El 81, Jazzatlán in Puebla, El Havana in BCS, DADA in SCLC, as well as at festivals across the country; Liga Mac Jazz Festival in Los Cabos (BCS, 2007), Los Cabos Jazz Festival (BCS, 2008), Jazz Festival in Mazunte (Oaxaca, 2010), Hermosillo Jazz Festival (Sonora, 2013), Jazz Mex Festival. (Mex DF, 2013), Spontaneous Jazz Festival (SCLC, 2013), Jaro Jazz (Veracruz, 2013), Jazz Nights at the Rufino Tamayo Museum (DF, 2014), to name a few. He has given radio concerts at the well-known jazz station “Horizonte Jazz 107.9 FM” and on Radio UNAM 860 AM.

In 2012 he recorded with the Blanch-Cupich-Nandayapa project. The album contains songs written by him and by double bass player Israel Cupich. In 2025 he made two productions: Organizer Trio, with Hans Ávila and Roberto Cobos, and with his quintet the album entitled “Vibrante”, in which all the songs except “Vera Lin” (Ania Brezinska) are his own.