Who is jCCALVET?
An addict to the craft and creation of music, Jorge Cajias Calvet has dedicated his entire life to listening to sounds from the atmosphere, consequently capturing these tuneful vibrations in order to charm the ears of hopefully anyone who comes their way. A composer, arranger and producer from the moment that he first started making music, he has spent endless amounts of time deepening his abilities and widening his understanding of what an accomplished piece of music truly is. He has navigated within the realms of many styles of music, constantly evading a comfort zone and always striving to experiment and achieve new sounds and emotions that haven’t been conceived before.
He was born in the beautiful, yet chaotic city of Caracas, Venezuela. All throughout his school years he attended the Emil Friedman school, founded by its namesake, renown for having a big music conservatory established within the school. From a very early age he undertook the performance of music, receiving classical violin lessons from primary school up until his first year at Berklee. He was a member of countless orchestras, including the high-level orchestra Arcos Juveniles de Caracas, from which he not only gained performance experience, but string arrangement skills, and deep knowledge of the style.
He was twelve years old when a friend introduced him to rock music, and his life took a turn. This event inspired him to pick up the guitar, and he began a journey into a world he had never even peeked at. He started to play for extensive hours at a day, trying to discern his favorite songs, and he was fascinated by their grace -- he had needed it all along. He soon found he had obtained the tools to satisfy a creative yearning he had, and started composing music. He fell in love with creating, and as an extension to his needs, he had also found a way to capture the music that he created. He started utilizing simple and basic DAWs to record, but like the music itself, his methods improved, and soon he found himself making complex recordings, of himself and of musicians he knew.
During his school years he was the guitarist, singer, and keyboardist in a rock band he founded with some musician friends, and was the primary writer. The band featured influences of everything from jazz to symphonic music, which resulted in a very complex and refined sound. He also worked with many other peers as well, embarking on various musical projects which would more and more enrich his abilities as a performer and producer. Ever since, he has been learning and improving on this art that is a lifelong journey.
He briefly attended University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, in which he majored in Contemporary composition. He experimented with a different kind of musical approach as he didn’t focus on modern music, but instead developed his skills on classical and orchestral music, as well as the performance of classical violin. This was an incredibly valuable experience, as it gave him a development from a point of view that few get. Soon enough, he realized that his love was in contemporary music, and that is how he got to Berklee.
Since he started there, he wrote and produced a wide range of songs that sparked both from everyday ideas, as much as from music classes. He continued to broaden his horizons by constantly challenging himself in every single area that his art reached, such as songwriting, production, recording, mixing, mastering, etc. He graduated from Berklee in December, 2018 and now lives in New York.
Today he finds himself working every day on new ideas and new projects, with new amazing friends and performers. His projection into the future has a lot to do with working tirelessly in music studios, paving the way, and molding the sound of the music of future generations. His excitement for all the possibilities that are to come in his way is enormous, and will never cease to exist.
