Dan Costa

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Dan Costa (born April 7, 1989 in London ) is a British jazz pianist and composer .

Live and act

Costa was born in London to a Portuguese father and an Italian mother. He started playing the piano at the age of eleven. After six years of teaching at the Académie de Musique Rainier III in Monaco and further teaching in Nice and at the Swedish Aurora Music Star Festival , he moved to the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in 2009 to study . He then studied jazz at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo in Porto (Portugal); From 2012 to 2013 he lived in São Paulo for a year to study Brazilian music at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas .

After completing his studies, Costa released his debut album Suite Três Rios , which was recorded in Rio de Janeiro and mixed by Jan Erik Kongshaug . On the album he worked with Jaques Morelenbaum , Leila Pinheiro , Ricardo Silveira , Teco Cardoso , Marcos Suzano and other musicians. The album received 4.5 out of five stars from All About Jazz and four out of five stars from American magazine Down Beat . It reached the top 10 in iTunes sales in Portugal and was # 1 in jazz albums. It also reached the top 10 in the US.

In 2018 he recorded the album Skyness with his own compositions and the musicians Seamus Blake , Roberto Menescal , Nelson Faria, Romero Lubambo , Teco Cardoso, Jorge Helder and Custodio Castelo, which he presented at the Blue Note jazz club in Rio.

Discography

  • 2016: Três Rios suite
  • 2018: Skyness

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Eileen Shapiro Eileen: Interview: Dan Costa. In: The Huffington Post. August 7, 2016. Retrieved September 17, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Dan Costa lança primeiro álbum 'Suite Três Rios', inspirado no Brasil. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 18, 2016 ; Retrieved September 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sopacultural.com
  3. ↑ All About Jazz: Dan Costa: Suite Três Rios. In: www.allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved September 17, 2016 .
  4. ↑ DownBeat Magazine. (No longer available online.) In: downbeat.com. Archived from the original on November 27, 2016 ; accessed on September 17, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Roots Music Report: Top 50 Jazz Album Chart . In: Roots Music Report . ( rootsmusicreport.com [accessed December 4, 2016]).
  6. ↑ Dan Costa part. Roberto Menescal e Nelson Faria. In: BlueNote. Retrieved January 8, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Costa, Dan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH London