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Felipe Senna

Son of a Dentist and a housewife, Felipe Senna was born in São Paulo in 1979. Showing particular interest for his grandmother’s piano since his very early years, he began his musical education at the age of 6. Surrounded by music lovers and amateur players in his German-Brazilian family, Senna was the first to follow the path professionally, initiating his career as a pianist and music instructor with 14 years of age. He graduated in Composition and Conducting by Unesp-the State University of São Paulo (2002), winning a scholarship from FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) from their Scientific Initiation program.

Felipe Salles: Camera Obscura

by Katchie Cartwright
July 11, 2025

"I've been wanting to do a project like this for decades," Amherst-based Brazilian composer and multi-reedist Felipe Salles writes of Camera Obscura. The album combines jazz and classical quartets in a program of original music inspired by a phenomenon that has intrigued artists and thinkers worldwide since the Stone Age. A camera obscura is created when ...

Felipe Senna & Câmaranóva: Overture

by Katchie Cartwright
January 9, 2025

Felipe Senna's expansive oeuvre defies genre, encompassing popular, classical, jazz, folkloric, abstract and narrative elements. Music, as he put it, “needs no excuses to thrill and move us...that's why I believe genre and style are not an end--they're just tools with which we take music to wherever we want it to go." Overture is ...

Overture

By Felipe Senna

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Overture; Danzas No. 2; Lendas: O Bosque do Saci; Lendas: O Curupira; Lendas: A Lenda da Vitória-Régia; Lendas: A Corrida da Mula-sem-Cabeça; Valsa Chorona; O Bailado; Jeu No. 5.

Câmara Brasileira

By Felipe Senna

Label: Maritaca
Released: 2023
Track listing: Turma Toda; Laurence; Choro; Três Valsas; Anjú; Nívea; Jeu No. 5; Turbulenta.

Katchie Cartwright's Best Jazz Albums Of 2023

by Katchie Cartwright
December 19, 2023

There were lots of fine new jazz albums in 2023. Too many for one to hear them all, much less try to rank them. So from among the excellent albums I reviewed on All About Jazz in 2023, here are 10 outstanding releases, projects that especially drew me in and kept me there. (Click the album ...

Felipe Senna & Câmaranóva: Câmara Brasileira

by Katchie Cartwright
June 15, 2023

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 ...