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Felipe Senna & Câmaranóva: Câmara Brasileira
by Katchie Cartwright
Câmaranóva is a chamber orchestra dedicated to performing music of living Brazilian composers, with a focus on instrumental music in its most diverse aspects" (including jazz, folkloric, and popular idioms). Felipe Senna, himself a composer and improviser, is the ensemble's musical director, arranger, and pianist. There are other composer-improvisers in the group, most notably flutist Léa Freire. The ensemble's mission is to present Brazilian instrumental music to a wide audience, in venues that would ordinarily be ...
read moreHeloisa Fernandes: Heloisa Fernandes
by Brian Gall
Brazilian pianist Heloisa Fernandes can tickle both the hearts of those with a quieter, more elegant classical palette and those whose survival is reliant upon jazz. Even without a team of dynamic percussionists and fine string accompaniment, Fruto is a feat of arrangement and composition.
Vocal beats in Colheita" create an epic, fundamental sound featuring piano and multiple musicians creating choral rhythms together.
Bottomless, dark violin tones change the character of Fruto ...
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