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| 12/12: Guinga Meets Berklee, Signature Music Series The 2013-2014 Signature Music Series at Berklee wraps its fall season on December 12 with Guinga Meets Berklee. The acclaimed Brazilian composer and guitarist will perform a dozen of his original songs with the 30-piece Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Francisco Noya, assistant professor of composition. Faculty guest soloists include Eugene Friesen, Greg Hopkins, John Stein, Fernando Brandão, Oscar Stagnaro, and Daniel Ian Smith. Guinga Meets Berklee takes place Thursday, December 12, 8:15 p.m., at the Berklee Performance Center (BPC), 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA. Reserved seating tickets are on sale now for $8 and $18 in advance, $12 and $24 day of show at berklee.edu/bpc. The venue is wheelchair accessible. For more information, call the BPC at 617-747-2261. In addition to the orchestra, several student vocalists and percussionists will be featured. The concert will also feature several new arrangements, including five written by Guinga's own arranger, Paulo Aragão; six by Berklee students; and one by Matthew Nicholl, chair of Contemporary Writing and Production and musical director for the concert. "Guinga is one of the most important Brazilian composers currently working, " said Nicholl. "Musical communities all over the world know and respect his work and Brazilian artists strive for the opportunity to record his songs. His influence, while not always direct, has been and remains immense." Carlos Althier de Souza Lemos Escobar – known as Guinga – is a Brazilian composer and guitarist known for incorporating many musical styles in his music, including choro, samba, baião, foxtrot, blues, jazz, and classical. Guinga has recorded a dozen CDs and his compositions have been recorded by artists including Sérgio Mendes, Elis Regina, Chico Buarque, Monica Salmaso, Antonio Adolpho, Cauby Peixoto, Leila Pinheiro, and Turíbio Santos. In 2002, journalist Mario Marques published a biography about Guinga, and his songbook, The Music of Guinga, was released the following year. Italian filmmaker Massimo D'Orsi is producing the documentary Guinga: pra que mentir. One of his recordings with Quinteto Villa-Lobos (Rasgando Seda) was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award in 2012. Guinga Meets Berklee is produced by Stein and Brandão, and directed by Nicholl and Stagnaro. The Signature Music Series at Berklee embraces the college's global community and Boston's diverse musical tastes. Berklee College of Music was founded on the revolutionary principle that the best way to prepare students for careers in music is through the study and practice of contemporary music. For more than 65 years, the college has evolved to reflect the state of the art of music and the music business, leading the way with the world's first baccalaureate studies in jazz, rock, electric guitar, film scoring, songwriting, turntables, electronic production, and more than a dozen other genres and fields of study. Berklee serves distance learners worldwide through its award-winning online extension school, Berklee Online. The college's national after school music program for underserved teens, the Berklee City Music Network, is in 30 cities and counting. A new campus in Spain, Berklee in Valencia, began hosting the college's first graduate programs in the fall of 2012. With a diverse and talented student body representing nearly 100 countries, and alumni and faculty that have collectively won more than 270 Grammys and Latin Grammys, Berklee is the world's premier learning lab for the music of today—and tomorrow. write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Jazz News :: home page |