Musician (saxophone, flute and clarinet player, composer and arranger)

       

Born in Brazil on 03/27/1977.

At the age of 3 years old began his studies of music and piano with Eunice Katunda. After 10 years dedicated to the study of flute, emphasizing classical and barroque repertoire (teachers: João Dias Carrasqueira, Hélio Buck and Wilson Rezende), started his studies of the saxophones within the music styles of jazz and bossa-nova. Teachers: Hugo Hori, Sergio Lyra, David Richards, Vinicius Dorin and Giancarlo Maurino (Saint Louis School, Italy 96/97).

On 2002 achieved the bachelor degree on jazz saxophone at MSM (Manhattan School of Music), New York, USA. Teachers: Steve Slagle and Dick Oatts.

During this period, performed with the following latin jazz stars: Hilton Ruiz ,Candido Camero and Bobby Sanabria (Grammy nominee on the year 2001); with Dom Salvador, legend of bossa-nova; with the famous jazz bass player Darryl Hall (sideman of the groups of Regina Carter and Ravi Coltrane, son of John Coltrane). Was a member of the renown "Choro Ensemble" and Jorge Amorim's Quartet, acclaimed percussionist. Started also his studies of "Choro", wich later were supervised by Milton Mori.

Back to Brazil on December 2002, has performed and in some cases recorded with: Filó Machado ; Helcio Milito, founder of the Tamba Trio; Fafá de Belém, Cristina Buarque, Marilia Medalha, Célia Vaz, Pery Ribeiro and Elton Medeiros ; Daniela Mercury and Martinho da Vila with Wagner Tiso's orchestra; Renato Braz, Vanessa da Matta, Mariana Aydar, Céu, Mariana Belém, Cris Aflalo, Rubi, Otto, Silvia Machete, Toni Garrido, Badauí, Ana Costa, Diogo Nogueira and Fabiana Cozza: well-known singers of nowadays MPB (brazilian popular music); Banda Gloria "gafieira" (samba and choro big band) of great success; Itiberê Orquestra Família and many other artists and groups.

Has been performing with his group regularly in several venues using different group sets. Great musicians have joined it and played with such as: Tiago Costa, Fabio Torres, Tomás Improta, Marcos Ariel, Alfredo Cardim, Rudi Germano, Silvia Goes, Itamar Assiere, Tomati, Jarbas Barbosa, Fernando Correia, Djalma Lima, Joseval Paes, Humberto Mirabelli, Marcinho Eiras, Rudy Arnaut, Lula Galvão, Arthur Dutra, Vinicius Dorin, Wilson Teixeira, Mauro Senise, Carlos Malta, Cuca Teixeira, Bobby Wyatt, Edu Ribeiro, Serginho Machado, Alex Buck, Zaza Desiderio, Ajurinã Zwarg, Pepa D'Elia, Celso Almeida, Renato Loyola, Paulo Paulelli, Evaldo Guedes, Itamar Colasso, Zérró Santos, Tiago Espírito Santo, Tiago Alves, Rômulo Duarte, Rômulo Gomes, Itiberê Zwarg, Jimmy Santacruz, Zeli, Zé Barbeiro, Luizinho 7 cordas, Alessandro Penezzi, Mario Eugenio, Marco Bertaglia, Milton Mori, Hulk Marcio Almeida, Bombarda, Marcelo Gallani, Douglas Alonso, Caíto Marcondes, Roberta Valente and many others.

Made 4 solo records:"Whisky com Guaraná" (a bossa nova duet with Gustavo Saiani on accoustic guitar) [check Sílvio Lancellotti's review on the newspaper O Pasquim]; "Dado" with original compositions; "Caipiroska" interpreting well-known "choros"; and " Minha Cidade" a brazilian Jazz Album.