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Mário Franco

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Born in 1965, he started music lessons at the age of 4 in Centro de Estudos Gregorianos.

He studied music theory with Maria José Godinho and after moved to Academia de Amadores de Música where he continued his studies in music theory with Cristina Brito da Cruz, started to study double bass and chamber music with Fernando Flores and composition with Pedro Rocha.

In 1986-87 attended double-bass courses given by Ludwig Streicher in Estoril and in 1988 won 1st prize in the Prémio Jovens Músicos (Young Musicians Competition); later became a member of Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil where he worked on classical repertory with conductor Christopher Bochmann.

Album

One doubt arose in the mind of a noble vigilante

Label: Georgios Anamateros
Released: 2016
Track listing: 1. Lessons for aspiring nobili vigilanti
2. Credo d' une artiste avant-garde autodidacte
3. One more victim on his list (or hers?)
4. Breakthrough of a bourgeoise girl
5. The secret of success of a Peace Conqueror
6. Warning song for a lovesick friend — and his reply...
7. The Chagrin of an untamed heart
8. The Noble Vigilante Theme
9. Redemption Blues for a lovesick warrior
10. The Deus-ex-Machina Tap Theme
11. So... My lover is a warrior! And he is wounded...
12. Rewarding Song for an Amorous Friend / Lessons for Aspiring Nobili Vigilanti
All songs written by Georgios Anamateros.

Results for pages tagged "Mario Franco"...

Album

The River

Label: Arjunamusic Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The House Behind; Loosing Memory; City People; Concerning The Ice; Passing Wind; Head, Heart; From Below; Lost Small Things; Smoke Signals.

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Article: Album Review

João Paulo Esteves da Silva / Mário Franco / Samuel Rohrer: Brightbird

Read "Brightbird" reviewed by Henning Bolte


There is music that gradually unfolds, music that lingers in stasis, music with sparse tonal movement, and, sometimes, music that simply happens, like the symphonies of sound in nature. This trio's music is quite close to this last mode. Just a few tones open up a broad living-space and let sound happen and get enriched by ...

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BRIGHTBIRD

Label: Arjunamusic Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: The Fireplace; Sun; Trusting Heart/Cosmos; Renewal; Winter; Bird; Noontide; Waking; Uncertain Steps; Oldness; There Were Shadows; Waves; So Much Water So Much Green.

Album

Rush

Label: Nischo
Released: 2017
Track listing: Paralelos Cruzados; Pedregulho; Do Mar; Talvez Sim, Talvez Não; Rumba Riscada; Aftermath of War; Dia de Merda; Rush; Luz; Desconhecido; Kind of High.

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Article: Album Review

Mário Franco: Rush

Read "Rush" reviewed by Chris Mosey


Portuguese bassist, composer and dancer Mario Franco, describes Rush as “a rock-inspired jazz album." It came, he says, from “an inner need of electric sounds." Franco, born 1965, started out playing classical music before switching to jazz. He is a dancer with the National Ballet Company of Portugal. His latest ...

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Article: Album Review

Mário Franco Trio: Our Door

Read "Our Door" reviewed by Gabriel Medina Arenas


Our Door, the debut album from the Mário Franco Trio, is lush with nostalgia and camaraderie, but also creates a vibrant breath of fresh air, offering hope for the present and future states of Portuguese jazz. These gifted musicians met at the end of the 80's in Lisbon's Hot Clube de Portugal, one of ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Mário Franco

Read "Take Five With Mário Franco" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Mario Franco: Mário Franco was born in 1965 and started music lessons when he was four years old in Centro Estudos Gregorianos. Franco studied music theory with Maria José Godinho then with Cristina Brito da Cruz in the Academia de Amadores De Música. During his time at Academia Amadores De Música, he initated double ...


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