Austin Peralta has passed away at the age of 22.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Peralta
Peralta was a
piano player, devoted to
music from his very young years when he started taking piano lessons at age 6, and continued his music studies with
Eleanor Lindboe and Sara Banta at
Pepperdine University. He has also studied with the noted jazz pianist
Alan Pasqua and saxophonist
Buddy Collette. He won the
Shelly Manne New Talent Award given by the
Los Angeles Jazz Society in 2003.
[2] He performed all over the world including Germany and Japan, where he had his first tour in 2006.
At age 15, Peralta was also a featured performer at the 2006 Tokyo Jazz Festival, appearing with his own trio,
[3] as well as a live performance with major jazz and jazz fusion stars
Chick Corea,
Hank Jones,
Sadao Watanabe,
John Patitucci,
Omar Hakim, and the young Japanese pianist
Hiromi Uehara. At age 16 Peralta appeared at the internationally-known Java Jazz Festival (2007).
