Edén Carrasco

Born 1982 in Valparaíso, Chile. He started saxophone lessons at the age of twelve and in 2008 he obtained the High Performance in Saxophone degree, at the conservatory of Universidad de Chile. He practices free improvisation since 2000 and has played in many different bands such as Ensamble Majamama, La Kut, Cariñito 3, Martin Joseph Pacific Ensemble, Akinetón Retard, Cuarteto de Saxofones de Miguel Villafruela, Ensamble Nuevo of Goethe Institut, and some concerts with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile, directed by Ennio Morricone and others. He has been part of many other spontaneous and ad hoc combinations of instrumentists and casual meetings of improvised music and/or recorded and published albums with musicians Tetuzi Akiyama (Japan), Jason Kahn (USA), Leonel Kaplan (Argentina), Christof Kurzmann (Austria), Sergio Merce (Argentina), Norbert Möslang (Switzerland), Günter Müller (Germany), Burkhard Stangl (Austria), Taku Unami (Japan) and Manfred Werder (Switzerland). He has played on many stages in Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brasil, China, Colombia, Germany, France, Holland, Japan, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela. Also known nas Edén Ocsarrak.