Everton Firmeza

A brazilian that looks to the world. This is how EVERTON FIRMEZA sees himself and is seen. In his 13 years of career the 27-year-old musician born and raised in São Paulo has already an experience and artistic maturity as like lot of plus aged musicians. FIRMEZA has begun his music studies at age 7, in the school where he studied. In the recorder classes he was always one of the best students. Many years later he discovered he had already absolute pitch at the time. At age 14 he started his studies in the bass guitar. He began playing Rock and the FM Popular Repertoire at bars, parties and public events. His tecnical and musical development brought an interest for Classic Rock, Jazz, Brazilian Music, and soon after that for Classical and Experimental Music. At age 18 FIRMEZA moved to Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais) to do the Major Degree in Composition at Escola de Música da UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais School of Music). What looked like a very strict couse at the time revealed itself exactly the opposite, so FIRMEZA had the opportunity to develop many projects in a lot of different styles and concepts: he played in Jazz, Brazilian Music, Pop, Choro and Contemporary Classical Music ensembles, he worked as sound technician, wrote arrangements for different formations, composed eletroacoustic and electronic music, studied and acted in theatre and clown plays, recorded soundtracks for theatre and animation, researched sound-image relationships and organized music festivals just to tell some of them. After graduating FIRMEZA decided to especialize himself as Bassist and Composer and to embrace the Brazilian Music, the Jazz and the Experimental Music as his main universes. Since 2012 Everton could participate of D E R I V A SONS experimental group, to act as bassist and music producer of singer and composer Nego Henrique and to deepen his studies in Jazz and Brazilian Popular Music at the well known Souza Lima Consevatory, in Sao Paulo. EVERTON FIRMEZA has already presented in many cities in Brazil and also in Argentina, in Belgium and Cuba. If in Brazil or outside, his concerts always praise his country and the Musical, Artistic and Cultural richness, as a way to give great value to its traditions and to consolidate its reputation as a important cultural reference in the contemporary scenario.

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