Description:
Join us for an evening of music with one of Brazils treasured jazz artists, Fabiano de Castro. Fabiano is joined by local musicians Ron Ormsby on bass, Kareem Sanjaghi on drums and Bert Jackson on guitar. The quartet will play a mix of Brazilian classics, some lesser-known Brazilian gems and original music composed by Fabiano and by Bert.
Pianist Fabiano de Castro started in music at age 11 at the State Conservatory of Juiz de Fora and then in CIGAM (Ian Guest Musical Improvement Course) in Rio de Janeiro. In Juiz de Fora, Fabiano worked with some prominent names from the music scene until he created the Pro-Music Trio Jazz and recorded a live CD in the Pro Jazz Festival in 1999. In the same year he founded the Grupo Scala de Jazz, before moving to New York to study at the Harbor Conservatory with Robert Blumental. Fabiano participated in workshops at the School for Improvisational Music (SIM) with Ravi Coltrane, Steve Colleman, Vijay Iyer, Uri Caine, and Ralph Alessi. Since returning to Sao Paulo, he has played alongside Renato Teixeira, Nene, Cleber Almeida, Vitor Alcântara, Nahor Gomes, Ron Ormsby, Karin Hammar, among others.
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