Guitares du Brésil

Description

As a researcher and multi-instrumentalist, Paulo Bellinati’s career has been entirely devoted to Brazilian music. In his album “Guitares du Brésil”, Bellinati revives typical Brazilian musical styles like lundu, chôro,baião, maxixe and Brazilian waltz, when playing several types of guitars: the cavaquinho — the Brazilian soprano guitar with four steel strings, D, G, B, D, the violão tenor — a four steel string guitar, C, G, D, A, theviola caipira — a five course steel string folk or “country” guitar, the violão de seresta — a steel string Brazilian old guitar and the violão de sete cordas — a seven string guitar with an extra bass (C) played in chôro, samba and regional music.
After graduating from the Conservatory of São Paulo, where he studied classical guitar with Isaias Savio, Paulo Bellinati went to live in Switzerland for six years. He studied at the Conservatory of Geneva and taught at the Conservatory of Lausanne. His first solo album — Garoto — released in 1988 in Brazil, results from his research concerning a great Brazilian guitarist and composer: Anibal Augusto Sardinha, nicknamed Garoto. Another album “The Guitar Works of Garoto”, a CD and music book published by GSP, contains Garoto’s complete guitar music, transcribed, arranged and played by Paulo Bellinati.
In 1988, Paulo Bellinati won the composition prize of the 8ème Carrefour mondial de la guitare in Martinica with his piece Jongo for solo guitar. His arrangements and compositions are played by Sergio and Odair Assad, Carlos Barbosa Lima, Cristina Azuma… Paulo Bellinati performs in solo concerts, plays with instrumental groups like “Pau Brasil”, or with artists like Edu Lobo, Chico Buarque and Johnny Alf. Paulo Bellinati took part in important jazz festivals: São Paulo Free Jazz Festival, Montreux, Paris, Zagreb Jazz Fair, Belga Jazz Festival, Norwich, Tokyo, University of Miami Festival.