Our loves.

 Wagner Tiso

 

Brazilian artist born in Minas Gerais in 1945. Throughout his 60-year career, the pianist, conductor, composer and arranger was one of those responsible for creating Clube da Esquina, one of the biggest musical movements in Brazil. He played and orchestrated for more than 150 different interpreters, among them, all the great names of MPB (Brazilian Popular Music), performed in almost all countries in the world and today, has a work with more than 30 albums, countless soundtracks for cinema, TV and theater, 2 complete symphonic pieces and almost 200 musical arrangements.

During the 80s, Tiso recorded nine albums and toured Brazil and abroad. In 1984, the track "Coração de Estudante", with its own melody and lyrics by Milton Nascimento, became the theme of the political movement Diretas Já. The song, originally recorded as an instrumental theme for the film "Jango", was awarded as the Best Track at the Gramado Festival in that year.

To celebrate its 60th anniversary, Universal Music launched "O Som Imaginário", a box with DVD and 2CDs, recorded during the show held at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, with the participation of Gal Costa, Milton Nascimento and Cauby Peixoto.

Tiso has dozens of awards for film scores, highlighting “A Ostra e o Vento”.

In 2009, he released the album "Samba e Jazz" and created the soundtrack for the film "Duas Mulheres", by João Mário Grilo.

 Victor Biglione

 

He was born in San Telmo, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In 1970 he began to play the guitar.

At first, on account of a hippie friend (Argentine) of his mother's, who taught him the first chords and the first song, “Venus”, by the Dutch group Shocking Blues, with only two chords.

Anyway, he started to be a musician not only for the fact of playing, but for what it symbolized. Later, for two years (1971 to 1973), he began to study with a guitar teacher named Luiz. With his second guitar teacher, Gaetano Galifi (Kay Galifi), he started taking lessons in the same class as future rockers and blues musicians like Frejat and Celso Blues Boy.

In 1976, he studied for six months in São Paulo at CLAM  -  Learnig Musical Free Center,  the same school of Zimbo Trio, traditional group from São Paulo and one of the exponents of Bossa Nova. At that time, he studied guitar with Arthur Verocai and Ari Piazzarolo, as well as jazz theory with Victor Assis Brasil. In 1977, with a letter of recommendation from conductor Tom Jobim, he joined Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he stayed for three months. In the United States, he made friends with other Brazilians who were studying at Berklee, including Ricardo Silveira, Cláudio Guimarães, Líber Gadelha and Zé Nogueira.

Back in Brazil, he taught guitar at Escola Pró-Arte, owned by Salomé Gandelman, mother of the saxophonist Léo Gandelman.

Guitarist, music producer, composer and arranger, Victor Biglione specializes in guitar, with which he is fluent in various genres of contemporary music, whether national or international, blues, jazz, fusion, samba-canção, bossa nova and especially in rock.

Considered one of the greatest guitarists in the world by Billboard Magazine, Victor currently performs more than one hundred concerts annually around the world and recently recorded with Wagner Tiso a CD “Dueto”, in Finland and the CD “Rock'n Roll Brasileiro”.

         Dunia Elias 

 

Pianist and composer, Dunia Elias is a sui generis artistic personality in the Rio Grande do Sul music scene. Her work includes classical chamber music, popular instrumental music, forays into theater (as an actress-pianist in plays by Brecht-Weill), solos with orchestra and her own compositions, several of which have been awarded at festivals.

He recorded the CD Ao Sul, with Alejandro Massiotti.

During the Oficina de Música de Curitiba in 2005, she was ranked first in the Choro's Contest with “O Choro do Bugio”, playing alongside great names such as Naylor Proveta, Isaías and Israel Almeida, Guello and André Mehmari .

In 2007, she joined the group Tango’s Show, from Carlitos Magallanes. In 2009, she composed and recorded the soundtrack for “O Batalhão das Letras”, by Mário Quintana, for the Mário Quintana Collection for Childhood.

The project received an honorable mention at the Prêmio Açorianos de Música 2010.

In October 2010, she was awarded at the 13th Porto Alegre Music Festival, receiving 2nd place with the instrumental composition “Candombe no Bomfim”.

In November 2011, she participated in the 1st Canoas Jazz Festival, with her instrumental group (Artur Elias and Giovani Berti), resuming the old successful partnership of the trio Ombro Amigo.

In 2014 the trio performed the opening show of the Canoas Jazz Festival, and was also part of the schedule of shows at Trensurb.

The trio has been performing regularly in Porto Alegre.

She is a pianist in the show “TãnTãngo”, by Hique Gomez. In April 2015, she was a guest of the Unisinos Anchieta Orchestra, playing her own compositions. The same concert was part of the schedule of the Pelotas International Music Festival, in January 2016.