Artists

Alexandre Ribeiro

Duo Violao Brasil

Francois de Lima

Léa Freire

Carol Panesi

Choro das 3

Choroloco

Brian Moran

Vitor Goncalves

Ian Coury

Alessandro Penezzi guitar:

Considered one of the great Brazilian guitarists of his generation, composer, arranger and guitarist Alessandro Penezzi was born in Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil in February, 1974.. He began his musical studies at seven years old. A multiinstrumentalist, Alessandro plays 7-string guitar, tenor guitar, cavaquinho, mandolin and flute. His teachers were Carlos Coimbra, Jair T. de Paula, Sérgio Belluco, and João Dias Carrasqueira. Alessandro has recorded over 20 CD's of music, and has performed with many of the great Brazilians musicians, including Yamandú Costa, Carlos Poyares, Toninho Ferragutti, Oswaldinho do Acordeon, Laércio de Freitas, Caíto Marcondes, Arismar do Espírito Santo, Maurício Carrilho, Pedro Amorim, Joel Nascimento, Conjunto Epoque de Ouro, Rogério Caetano, Caio Marcio, Alexandre Ribeiro and Nailor Proveta. He has taught at California Brazil Camp since 2010, and is building a following in the US as one of the great virtuosos and composers in the Brazilian Popular Music genre in the world today. He resides in São Paulo, and tours regularly to Europe and Africa.

Nailor Proveta, clarinet and saxophone:

About Proveta: Nailor Proveta is a clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, arranger and founder and director of Banda Mantiquera in São Paulo, Brazil. He is highly regarded as one of the great Brazilian musicians in the world today through his leadership of the Banda Mantiquera, a Brazilian jazz band featuring a roster of Sao Paulo’s most outstanding players in brass, percussion, winds, guitar and bass. He has toured the US with Hermeto Pascoal, and taught (recently, when?) In California at the annual California Brazil Camp in Sonoma County.

He plays and improvises in different musical styles, from classical music, to choro and jazz. Throughout his career, he performed in trios, quartets and big bands. He has been leader of the band Mantiqueira since 1991, with two Grammy nominations, in 1998 and 2006. He has participated in numerous shows, with national and international artists, such as Simone, Claude, Célia, Peri Ribeiro, Agnaldo Rayol, Nelson Gonçalves, Celso Viáfora, Vânia Bastos, Jane Duboc, Guinga, Joyce, Elza Soares, Mônica Salmaso, Sergio Santos, Renato Braz, Fabiana Cozza, Virgínia Rosa, César C. Mariano, Benny Carter, Roger Newman, Anita Oday, Paul West, Joe Williams, George Duvivier, Albert Collins, Barry White, Natalie Cole, among others.