This concert is part of lineup of the 6th Annual Berkeley Festival of Choro ‘The Brass Edition’! Throckmorton Theatre is offering this concert complimentary to our community as part of our mission to expose and invigorate our community to musical virtuosos from around the world. We invite you to attend and enjoy the immensely talented Gileno Santana, Henrique Neto and Francois de Lima who will also be joined by Choro Festival directors Jane Lenoir and Brian Rice.
Trumpeter Gileno Santana is highly praised by musicians like Wynton Marsalis, Claudio Roditi, James Morrison, Thomas Gansch, Gábor Tarkövi. He creates a unique sound where notes, sometimes intense, sometimes soft, merge into lyrical tones of rare beauty.
Guitarist Henrique Neto is Deputy Director of the Escola Brasileira de Choro Raphael Rabello in Brasilia. Henrique has been a member of the Choro Livre group for 10 years, which, besides being the most traditional choro group in Brasilia, accompanies guest artists at Clube do Choro in Brasília. In that capacity and others he has worked with some of the biggest names in Brazilian música popular. He has performed in more than fifteen countries on four continents. Henrique is the co-author, with Dudu Maia, of the Choro Handbook.
Francois de Lima trio with Marcos Silva and Brian Rice
Grammy-nominated Brazilian valve-trombonist, François de Lima, is one of the founders of Banda Mantiqueira and has earned worldwide acclaim for the swing in his interpretations and the creativity of his improvisations. François has toured all over the world and recorded with many world-renown Brazilian artists including Amilton Godoy, who was part of the 2018 Berkeley Festival of Choro. He has performed at Carnegie Hall. In 1992, de Lima was a founding member of Banda Mantiqueira, a Brazilian big band and important voice on the Brazilian scene. The band’s album Aldeia was nominated for a 1997 Latin Grammy for “Best Latin Jazz Performance.”
What is Choro? Choro is an instrumental music from Brazil that dates back to the late 1800’s. It blends European classical chamber music sensibilities with an Afro-Brazilian groove and improvisation. It is music that is interesting and compelling!
Gileno Santana and Henrique Neto playing “A NOSSA” :
