Songs
These are just preview samples. You need a valid account and be logged in to hear the full tracks.
- country:Brazil
- style(s):Brazilian, Experimental
- label:Maritaca
- artist posted by:Maritaca Producoes Artisticas ltd
Links
It is essential that young musicians begin to make music with a lot of harmonic, melodic,and rhythmic richness. This will only be achieved through Universal Music, without any preconceptions, and that is why there is no one better to rise to the occasion than the exceptional musician and composer, Maestro Itiberê. I am certain that the result will be very important for Rio de Janeiro and the rest of Brazil
Hermeto Pascoal
The Itiberê Orquestra Família Twenty musicians under the auspices of Itiberê Zwarg comprise this orchestra which has been rehearsing for two years on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
Initially, these young musicians had met only with the intention of forming a repertoire dictated by Itiberê, in an old mansion in the neighborhood of Laranjeiras, which now operates as the Pro Arte Music School. The instrumentation consists of: piano, acoustic guitar, mandolin, flute, clarinet, trumpet, saxophone, melophone, violin, cello, bass, cavaquinho, melodica, drums, electric guitar, percussion, and voice blended together.
At these meetings, Itiberê - focusing on rehearsing them to play as a coherent ensemble - makes use of the "real time creation" method, where he composes the songs and tailors his arrangements in such a way that the musicians can participate in his creative process while learning to hear and play in harmony with other instruments.
Different from a traditional orchestra, the group usually doesn't use scores nor Itiberê the traditional baton - music parts written after the fact will serve as a record and the musicians play by heart.
The musicians' styles are manifold and and clearly reflect the orchestra's universality as a whole. This is a main characteristic of the "Jabour School", the neighborhood where Hermeto lives and where Itiberê rehearsed for more than twenty years, learning everything he knows about music. Itiberê considers himself a musical son of Hermeto, and the Family Orchestra Hermeto's grandchildren.
As the musicians progressed the orchestra gained recognition, and their appearances in diverse settings have legitimized the group's expansive repertory.
ITIBERÊ ZWARG
He is the teacher of a specialized style of performance practice at the Pro Arte Music School in Rio de Janeiro which is one of the settings for the development of his own methodology. Here he has been helping shape a generation of talented youths.
Born in the city of São Paulo in 1950 into a family of musicians, Itiberê Zwarg began studying acoustic guitar at the age of fifteen with his father, Bruno Zwarg. At sixteen, his brother Moacyr, with whom he also played, gave him his first acoustic bass. At this time he was also under the tutelage of Nicolai Tchevchenko.
From the end of the 60s through the early 70s, he played in the trios Xangô 3 and Bossa Jazz Trio . During this period he was playing in nightclubs with various musicians, including Tenório Júnior and Luís Mello. In 1977, he entered a new and promising musical chapter of his life by joining Hermeto Pascoal's group. Besides having the opportunity to develop his own style on the bass, he learned a great deal with the musical master: harmony, arranging, and above all, knowing how to listen in order to create.
He has toured with Hermeto's group throughout Europe, the Americas, and Japan. Together, they have offered workshops in France, Germany, Switzerland, the United States of America, and all over Brazil. Itiberê is also enhancing his skills as a composer and arranger. The arrangements of Gilson Macedo's CD, "Variasons", among others, bear his name. He writes and arranges for the Itiberê Zwarg Trio , where he is the pianist, and for the Itiberê Family Orchestra , where he serves as leader.
Itiberê Zwarg - Director, Composer and Arranger
Letícia Malvares - flute
Karina Neves - flute
Joana de Castro - clarinet & bass clarinet
Yuri Villar - sax soprano e sax alto
Thiago Queiroz - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Pedro Paulo Junior - trumpet and mellophone
Jonas Corrêa - trombone
Mariana Zwarg - flute
Renata Neves - violin
Beth Dau - viola and voice
Carol Panesi - violin
Felipe José - cello
Mayo Pamplona - acoustic & electric bass
Luciano Câmara - acoustic & electric guitar
Bernardo Ramos - electric guitar & cavaquinho
Bruno Aguilar - electric bass
Vitor Gonçalves - piano, melodica & alto saxophone
Ajurinã Zwarg - drumset, percussion & harmonica
Mingo Leahy - percussion
www.itibereorquestrafamilia.com.br
