Javier Vercher

Since 2016, Javier Vercher has worked as a professor of saxophone/clarinet/flute, harmony, and ensemble at Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain.

Born in Madrid, he moved with his family at the age of 6 to the city of Gandía, Valencia, where he began to study music theory, piano, and clarinet under the guidance of his father. After finishing his classical clarinet studies at the conservatory in Gandía, he became interested in jazz and attended several seminars with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Perico Sambeat, and Jorge Pardo. 

In 1997, Berklee College of Music and the A.I.E. (Association of Performers and Executives) awarded Vercher a scholarship to study in Boston, where he graduated with a degree in performance in 2000. At Berklee, he studied with great masters of improvisation and contemporary harmony, such as George Garzone, Frank Tiberi, Dino Govoni, Ken Cervenka, and Andy McGhee.

In 2001, he moved to New York and started playing and recording albums with various musicians of the local jazz scene, including Lionel Loueke, Francisco Mela, Ferenc Nemeth, David Kikoski, Chris Higgins, Sam Yahel, and Robert Glasper. 

During this period, he freelanced on several recording projects and toured the U.S., U.K., and the Netherlands with the American folk duo Chip Taylor/Carrie Rodriguez. He also had the opportunity to play and record with guitarist Bill Frisell (Seven Angels on a Bicycle, EMI) and multi-Grammy awarded artist Alejandro Sanz, presenting the album Tren de los momentos (2006-Warner). 

In 2009, he moved to Spain and resumed his career as a solo musician, playing and recording in Europe and the U.S. with such artists as Jorge Rossy, Billy Hart, Kevin Hays, Lionel Loueke, Moises P. Sanchez, Sam Yahel, David Kikoski, Ben Monder, Perico Sambeat, Masa Kamaguchi, Albert Sanz, Pepi Taveira, and Roberto Gatto, among others.

Vercher has also contributed as a composer and producer to the documentary film soundtracks of The Architect of New York, Guastavino (2016, RTVE), Josep Renau: El arte en Peligro (2018, RTVE), Chicote, el barman de las estrellas (2019, RTVE), Bosch i Morata, Sempre els quatre (2019, A PUNT), Mujeres sin censura (2022, RTVE), and Javier Goerlich, El arquitectoque soñó con su ciudad (2023, A PUNT).