Alexandre Ribeiro, clarinet, and Roberta Valente, pandeiro, with Berkeley Choro Ensemble
St. Alban's Episcopal Church Albany, CA, CA
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Alexandre Ribeiro, clarinet, and Roberta Valente, pandeiro, with Berkeley Choro Ensemble
From São Paulo, Brazil, Ribeiro and Valente are two of the outstanding and world-renowned performers of Brazilian Popular Music, specializing in choro, samba, baião, forro and other styles of traditional Brazilian music. They can be heard on recordings by Alessandro Penezzi, Zé Barbeiro, Quinteto em Branco e Preto, Dona Inah, Paulo Freire, Teresa Cristina, Laércio de Freitas, Nailor Azevedo (Proveta), Conrado Paulino, Toninho Ferragutti, Dominguinhos, Ó do Borogodó Group, Fabiana Cozza, Diadema Symphonic Jazz Band, Jair Rodrigues, Wanderléa, Léa Freire, Nelson Ayres, Swami Junior, Época de Ouro group, Paulo César Pinheiro, Cristóvão Bastos, Verônica Ferriani, Vinicius Calderoni and many others. Joining the duo are members of Berkeley Choro Ensemble: Jane Lenoir, flute, Ricardo Peixoto, 7-string guitar, and Brian Rice, percussion.
The Berkeley Choro Ensemble (pronounced "shoro"), is a group of world-class musicians from the SF Bay Area that made its debut in January, 2010, at the Berkeley Public Library. The group celebrates the music, culture and history of Brazil, with a special emphasis on the Choro genre, a style of music which emerged in the 1800's in Brazil, fusing the music of Brazil's European immigrants and the native music of Brazil's indigenous and African-Brazilian population. The members of this group have performed and recorded with Guinga, Toots Theilman, Guinga, Jovino Santos Neto, Kenny Barron, Alessandro Penezzi, Paulo Sergio Santos, McCoy Tyner, Joe Lovano, Ray Charles, Dave Brubeck, and Joe Henderson and many more. In 2018 the ensemble released their first CD, "The View from Here", celebrating contemporary Brazilian choro composers.
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St. Alban's Episcopal Church (View)
1501 Washington Street., between Curtis and Neilson Streets
Albany, CA, CA 94707
United States
