Duo Violão + 1 in Concert
$20 / $18 / $10
Rogério Souza, guitar
Edinho Gerber, guitar
Ami Molinelli, percussion
For Duo Violão + 1, guitarists – internationally acclaimed Rogério Souza and genre-bending Edinho Gerber – join with in-demand percussionist Ami Molinelli to brilliantly demonstrate Brazilian choro’s virtuosic possibilities: flowingly structured melodies are elaborated over contrapuntal bass lines, often improvised.
Brazilian choro, a precursor of samba and bossa nova, sprang from the encounter of African rhythms with European classical dances in mid-19th century Rio de Janeiro. In his youth, Heitor Villa-Lobos played choro, and the style inspired a series of his compositions. In the 21st century, choro remains vital and growing, as audiences discover its tradition of reinvention.
A História do Choro, their first recorded collaboration, guitarists Rogério Souza, and Edinho Gerber, alongside percussionist Ami Molinelli, survey the musical history and evolution of Choro, revealing its rhythmic and harmonic permutations and, in the process, create an album that is coherent in timbre and vision while marvelously varied in its nuances.
– Professor Bryan McCann, Georgetown University
Doors open 30 minutes before the show.
Tickets: $20 ($18 student, senior, or SFS/PNA member; $10 youth age 17 & under)