Pablo Sonnaillon
- Composer - Bassist -
Pablo Sonnaillon is a Spanish composer and a jazz musician of Argentinian heritage born in 1993 in Palamós, Catalunya. He started his music journey when he bought a bass guitar at the age of 14. Being a film enthusiast, writing music for some of the great movies of the future has been one of his life-long dreams since the first time he picked up his bass guitar, and thought naïvely “wow, this is easy! I’m just like Mozart!”.
In his early years as a musician he founded, and was one of the main composers of two rock bands: Insanity and Happy Coliflowers. The first one was highly influenced by American and British metal bands from the 80s. The second one was more focused on blues and collective improvisation. Pablo has continued to develop his skill and enthusiasm for improvised music since those happy days. Even though he had a passion for mathematics and science from an early age, winning a Catalunya-wide mathematics competition at the age of 12, he interrupted his degree in mathematics at the University of Barcelona to focus on building and nurturing his musical career.
He moved to the UK in 2015 looking for an adventure and found himself in the middle of a rich jazz scene in Liverpool. He decided to start learning an instrument that would better fit his new found tastes and influences: the double bass. The fact that it is acoustic and fretless together with the versatility of the arco made it an irresistible instrument, compared to the familiar electric bass guitar. After making his own place in the scene he started a jazz ensemble co-led with Alex McDowall: The Deportees, and recorded an album in 2019 named “What Session”. Now has recently graduated from his degree in composition at the Royal Northern College of Music and he is exploring new ways to create music, while collaborating with a wide variety of stablished artists like dancer Kali Chandrasegaram and double bass virtuoso Louis van der Mespel.
