Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/14/2021
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Location
Old First Presbyterian Church
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- Brian Moran – guitar, cavaco
- Ricardo Peixoto – guitar
- Harvey Wainapel – saxophone, clarinet
- Cláudia Villela – voice
- Ami Molinelli – percussion
Choro, samba, and pandeiro by Chicquinha Gonzaga, Dona Ivonne Lora, and more.
Showcasing the intersection between Brazil’s first original music, choro, and its most popular music, samba. This project aims to showcase a gender balance of choro and samba composers, such as Chicquinha Gonzaga and Dona Ivonne Lora, as well as an original choro and 3 pandeiro pieces for dance. Ami Molinelli, a Bay Area percussionist, received a San Francisco Arts Commission grant to create this live show resulting in a video presentation to be released later this spring.
Equally at home in both jazz and latin guitar styles, Brian Moran is one of the Bay Area’s more versatile and accomplished musicians. Since graduating from Berklee College of Music, Brian has made the San Francisco Bay Area his home. He currently plays with Grupo Falso Baiano, Oakland Samba Revue, Jorge Alabe and Grupo Samba Rio, and as a leader and sideman in various other jazz, blues, and world music groups.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, guitarist, composer and arranger, Ricardo Peixoto, came to the US by way of a scholarship to Boston’s Berklee College of Music, and later settled in the San Francisco Bay Area. His fluid melodic sense and original harmonic approach place him among the top representatives of Brazilian guitar in the US today.
Saxophonist/clarinetist Harvey Wainapel has his feet firmly planted in two musical worlds. His jazz experience has led to performances and/or recordings with the likes of McCoy Tyner, Kenny Barron, Joe Henderson, and the Metropole Orchestra. He has toured internationally with Ray Charles, Joe Lovano, and Airto Moreira/Flora Purim.
Cláudia Villela’s voice gets all the attention, and it’s easy to understand why. Her glorious five-octave instrument is one of the wonders of jazz, lithe and startlingly beautiful in every register. Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, she sings mostly in Portuguese, interpreting lyrics with keen emotional insight and supple rhythmic command. A supremely inventive scat singer, she has honed a vivid vocabulary of sounds that can evoke the hollow thump of a tabla drum, the muted trumpet of Miles Davis, the insistent twang of a berimbau, the ethereal call of a flute, or the distortion-laden Stratocaster licks of Jimi Hendrix.
Ami Molinelli is a professional percussionist and educator specializing in Brazilian and Latin percussion. Ami received her Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts. Her performance and recording credits include theater, television (NBC). She is a freelance performing artist as well. She is endorsed by Latin Percussion (LP) and Rhythm Tech.
This project of music with a theme of “Roots in choro and samba” was made possible by an IAC grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.