Marco Pereira

Marco Pereira can be an internationally renowned Brazilian composer, guitarist, and college or university teacher. His compositional function and playing — highly inspired by Brazilian, Latin American, and jazz music — have already been awarded in essential international contests such as for example Spain’s Concurso Andrés Segóvia in Palma de Mallorca and Concurso Francisco Tárrega in Valencia. In 1993, he received the Sharp reward for Greatest Popular Music Arranger for his focus on Gal Costa’s Gal. Within the next 12 months, he received two Clear prizes (Greatest Soloist and Greatest Instrumental Recording) for his personal recording Bons Encontros (a duet with pianist Cristóvão Bastos). He in addition has performed and documented with many best popular Brazilian performers/composers like Tom Jobim, Milton Nascimento, Edu Lobo, Paulinho da Viola, Gilberto Gil, and Wagner Tiso. Pereira analyzed with classical acoustic guitar grasp Isaías Sávio while still in São Paulo. Shifting to France, he offered a master’s thesis about Villa-Lobos’ music towards the division of Musicology from the Université Musicale Internationale de Paris/Sorbonne. Within the next five years while surviving in France, Pereira performed in Germany, america, Switzerland, France, Denmark, Canada, and Spain. Back Brazil, he structured programs on violão (traditional acoustic guitar) and practical harmony in the University or college of Brasília, and documented two albums (Violão Popular Brasileiro Contemporâneo and Círculo das Cordas) that yielded him an invitation to execute at the city Hall (NY) in 1988. He performed within the Brasil em Caracas event (Venezuela) in 1995 and 1996 (the second option 12 months with Paulo Moura). Also in 1996, he performed with achievement within the XXème Carrefour Mondiale de la Guitare (Martinica) with Baden Powell and Vicente Amigo. In 2000, he toured the U.S. with Ralph Towner within the International Acoustic guitar Night series.