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Hugo Cruz - percussion, drumset
Mark Micchelli - keyboard
Brian Stahurski - bass

Hugo Alexander Cruz Machado is a Cuban-born, award winning, internationally renowned drummer and composer who has performed in South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Mexico, Venezuela, and the United States. He is the leader of the fusion group Caminos, which had its Pittsburgh debut at the Pittonkatonk festival in May 2019. Caminos have made appearances at the 2019 Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival, Fábrica de Artes in Havana, First Night Pittsburgh 2020, The Frick, Spirit Hall, Market Square, Con Alma, all where they have performed original compositions fusing rhythms, melodies, and harmonies of the African diaspora with Cuban and American influences. While a resident of Cuba, Hugo toured regularly with Síntesis, a leading Afro-Cuban rock-fusion group. In 2014, he won the award as the “Best Drummer” at the Festival de Tambor in Havana, Cuba. Hugo is a graduate of the Instituto Superior de Artes.

Mark Micchelli is a pianist, composer, improvisor, technologist, and scholar based in Pittsburgh, PA. He can be found playing all types of music, including contemporary classical, experimental pop, straight-ahead jazz, progressive Latin music, and lots in between. Mark serves as musical director and arranger for Mai Khôi’s stage show Bad Activist, and is in a long-running piano+electronics duo called Teeth and Metals alongside electronicist Alex Lough. Mark is currently completing his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh, where he splits his time between the Jazz Studies and Composition/Theory departments.

Bassist Brian Stahurski received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in jazz performance from Duquesne University. He has performed with the Pittsburgh Ballet Orchestra, Major Broadway touring productions, the Wheeling Symphony, WQED's “Live from Studio A” on PBS television and various Jazz, Blues, Salsa, Pop and Rock artists around Pittsburgh. Brian toured with jazz trumpet legend Maynard Ferguson and his Big Bop Nouveau band around the world from 1999-2001 playing jazz festivals, clubs and universities in the United States, Europe, and Asia. In that time he performed on two notable recordings: vocalist Michael Feinstein on “Big City Rhythms” with Maynard Ferguson, and renowned vocalist Diane Schuur on “Swingin for Schuur.” He is a bass instructor at PennWest California, Slippery Rock University, and Duquesne University