Samuel Quinto

'Samuel Quinto', FRSA (Belém, September 5, 1973) is a self-taught pianist of jazz, Pop, Gospel music, Classical music as well a Maestro, Music producer, composer, Arranger, Educator and Brazilian Writer living in Portugal since 2004. Quinto grew in Salvador, where he developed his art mainly on piano.

Samuel Quinto
FRSA
Born Samuel Quinto Feitosa
September 05, 1973
Nationality  Brazil  Portugal
Education Self-taugh
Style Jazz, Latin Jazz, Classical, Pop, Rock, MPB, Gospel.
Website http://www.samuelquinto.com

Biography

Samuel Quinto was born in Belém, Pará, but grew up in Salvador, Bahia. From the age of seven, he developed his musical talent by virtue of contact with the piano through the gospel, accompanied Baptist Church who attended during childhood with his family in Salvador. Then Samuel took the first steps on piano in the family home, always without accompanying teachers, and developed his piano skills learning also, as an autodidact, harmony, reading and writing music and orchestration, musical composition, arranging for the church choir, which starts playing as a pianist at age 12.  [1]

Portugal

At 25, he decides to focus on the music, leaving the course of Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Bahia and began his successful career as a pianist at the Marriott Hotel in Costa do Sauipe, Bahia. After passing through his repertoire for various types of music, from Brazilian music - and some recreated original way "Asa Branca" and "Silver Sandal"; jazz standards, Chick Corea, Cole Porter, through Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Samuel Quinto finds the pianist Michel Camilo and Latin jazz, and proceeds to devote then that jazz genre. The passage of a more mainstream jazz to jazz-Latin is almost natural, for its Brazilian cultural substrate, and the repertoire and practices that had developed over time, using Brazilian musical languages mixed with more traditional jazz.  [2]

Having visited Portugal to tourism, he knows the kind of excites to develop business in this country; Thus, and also due to some difficulty in developing its activity in Salvador, Brazil, in 2004 lies in the city of Porto in Portugal, where he began teaching piano jazz and Latin jazz, also developing a career in concerts and jazz festivals, due to the formation of his trio including "Samuel Quinto trio", with performances in Portugal, Spain and going to act also as a pianist at the School of Ginasiano Dance (classical and modern ballet) in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. 

Europe

Samuel Quinto published his first CD "Latin Jazz Thrill" in 2007, in Portugal, with trio formation (Bass, Piano and Drums), which forms the core of his repertoire at various festivals and concerts during the years 2007 and 2008 in Portugal, and during his 2008 tour in which shows in cities like Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Heilbronn, Liege and Limoges; plus a special concert held in Salvador in partnership with the Catholic University of Salvador in June 2008. His compositions are used at the University of Porto (ESMAE) in undergraduate degree in Jazz, as study material in training Jazz students. 

The second CD entitled "Salsa 'n Jazz", containing eight original compositions by Samuel Quinto,  and the standard Stella by Starlight, is launched in June 2009 with a concert in the city of Oporto, and concomitant release of his new tour, even more comprehensive, which passed through Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands and England. In this second work, Samuel was accompanied by another Brazilian, classical training, Marcos Borges on bass and Manuel Santiesteban, Cuban, graduated in drums in Havana, Cuba. 

Samuel Quinto Trio - Jazz Festival of Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Samuel Quinto Trio Jazz Festival Viana do Castelo, Portugal In late 2009, he founded the first course of Latin Jazz at Jazz School North, Porto - first professional school of Jazz accredited in Portugal and one in the Iberian Peninsula to have the course Instrumentalist Professional Jazz until then. In addition to being invited to be the artistic director of one of the most traditional jazz Portuguese clubs, B-flat. 

Samuel has also been invited to conduct workshops in the field of Jazz, Latin Jazz Composition and Arrangement both in Brazil and in Europe. But his musical talent is not just to jazz, having just been ballet body pianist, began to develop the scholarly side until then asleep in his music. Inspired by great composers such as Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Brahms and others, initiated compositions to accompany the ballet on spectacles, as well as for orchestra and choir. 

His first symphonic composition, composed in 2011, was the Symphony No. 1 in A flat Major "Pascha Aeternam" which is founded for Orchestra, Chorus and soloists in 4 suits, that has emphasis on Easter. Also teaches Master Class and Christmas Concert in Joinville and Salvador, Brazil.

Brazil

In 2012 he returned to Brazil leaving momentarily aside his career as a concert performer and educator for Music Minister at the Second Baptist Church in Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte. He wrote the Christmas Oratorio for Choir in 5 suits and Symphony; his second symphony, the Symphony 2 in C Minor, titled "Symphony Lightly Beautiful" for choir and Orchestra in five suits, yet the Motet angelic, inspired by the motets of Bruckner to 5 suits; string Quartet; Opera Samson and Delilah (unfinished). 

In 2013, he adapted the Symphony No. 1 for the opera format. Opera Pascha Aeternam said in its structure with theater, classical and modern ballet, choir and soloists a total staff of 148 people, and it was presented at the Second Baptist Church in Mossoro, as well as the Municipal Theater Dix-Huit Rosado for a total estimated audience more than 1,500 people, receiving rave reviews in RN state newspapers. 

Later this year, composed minuets, inspired by Bach preludes, anthem for Police National Penitentiary, the Tango to Mossoro (dedicated to the city dwellers), Blues Carol (Jazz Ballad for solo piano), and worked on arrangements for various pop songs gospel, including arrangements for choir Sacrum. 

At the end of 2013, Samuel Quinto was invited to work as a music minister of the First Baptist Church of Mogi das Cruzes where he served as conductor, educator, producer, composer and arranger end of 2015. 

Solo concert in Portugal - Teatro de Chaves

In April 2015, he performed the Opera Pascha Aeternam with members of the First Baptist Church Mogi, new form and great impact in the city as well in local newspapers.

Still in 2015 becomes the newest pianist representative Fritz Dobbert pianos mark with a debut concert at Teatro Gazeta in São Paulo and DVD recording Solo Performance - Latin Jazz. 

Currently turned his pianist career back, releases his DVD Latin Jazz Piano Solo - Live in São Paulo, performing in Brazil and Europe. 

Finished in March 2016 his first book called "Improvising is very easy."

 In April 2016 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) based in London.

Style

While making unique style, Samuel reveals a strong influence of Michel Camilo's music, mixed with Chick Corea, Chucho Valdés and Gonzalo Rubalcaba references. His style is percussive, often marked by repetitive bass lines, the characteristic "tumbao" of Cuban music, and improvisation lines that reveal extensive knowledge of the genre as well as jazz harmony, allowing mark several colorful records, and a demonstration artful creation of the melody, although only an instrumentation trio. Your very precise pianist style and the way they develop on the themes convey the idea that everything is made in advance, despite being essentially improvisation.

As proof of his unique style in his second CD, the result of musical fusion is a "musical dish" full of spice and complicity, that mixes Brazilian roots with Cuban rhythms, without forgetting the African flavor.

Today, Samuel Quinto is considered by the magazine "All about Jazz", "The Latin Jazz Corner" US and "Latin Jazz Network" Canada as one of the greatest representatives of the Latin Jazz European.

"The Emergence Of A New Piano Stylist" - The Latin Jazz Corner.[3]

"Samuel Quinto is also an accomplished composer and shows maturity and a sense of adventure with the rhythmic variety." - All About Jazz[4]

"Samuel Quinto is a pianist of great expressive resources, since it combines the improvisational skills - stemming from the free-jazz practice - the memory of Brazilian popular music and Latin America in general, allowing you to use the piano as an instrument with the dual function of highlight and amplify contrapuntally melodies and voices, and above all to support or substantiate the rhythm, the cadence of the sentences, sometimes as if incorporates percussion. " - Prof.Dr. Pires Laranjeira - University of Coimbra.[4]

"The Brazilian talent that surpassed borders and today is considered one of the greatest representatives of Latin Jazz in Europe!" - Keyboard Magazine Brazil.[5]

Discography

References

  1. ↑ Biografia no site AllAboutJazz
  2. ↑ Entrevista em "Porto24"
  3. ↑ Boaz, Chip (23 Julho 2009). "Spotlight: Salsa’ N Jazz, Samuel Quinto Trio". Latin Jazz Corner. Retrieved 23 July 2009. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ Fagundes, Heloísa (Agosto 2015). "O talento brasileiro que ultrapassou fronteiras e hoje é considerado um dos maiores representantes do Latin Jazz na Europa!". Revista Keyboard Brasil. Retrieved August 2015. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. Site oficial de Samuel Quinto
  7. The Latin Jazz Corner, 23 July, 2009, citado em AllAboutJazz

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