Emiliano Sampaio

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Emiliano Cardoso Sampaio (* 1984 in São Paulo ) is a Brazilian jazz musician (guitar, trombone), composer and arranger . He has received several student awards from jazz magazine DownBeat . Sampaio has lived in Graz since 2012 .

Career

Emiliano Sampaio studied guitar at the University of Campinas (Brazil) and graduated with a Master of Arts . With his band Meretrio, founded in 2003, he recorded several CDs in Brazil with Gustavo Boni on bass and Luis André on drums, before moving to Graz in 2012 to study composition with Ed Partyka and Michael Abene at the University of Music and Performing Arts . Here Sampaio began to write pieces for his nonet Mereneu Project , Big Band and larger ensembles. The collaboration with the Meretrio , which also moved to Austria, continued, occasionally with the help of the saxophonist and flutist Heinrich von Kalnein . Sampaio also studied trombone with Ed Neumeister .

As a band leader, composer and arranger, Sampaio has worked with the following formations, among others: Metropole Orkest , hr-Bigband , Fete Huppe (Hanover), Jazz Orchester Regensburg, Copenhagen Big Band, HRT Big Band (Zagreb). He is also engaged as a musician in various band projects, such as Saint Chameleon, Sound Pollution Eclectic, Franziskus and Vincent Veneman. For the Brazilian singer and guitarist Badi Assad , he made the brass arrangements and trombone for the album Between Love and Luck in 2012 .

In 2019 Sampaio presented his electro jazz sound on tour through Europe with his trio, with timbres changed by electronic overlays on the trombone and guitar; But he also performed with his large-format Mega Mereneu Project at the Bavarian Jazzweekend in Regensburg.

Awards (selection)

  • DownBeat Student Award 2018: Category "Outstanding Guitar Performance"
  • DownBeat Student Award 2018: Category "Outstanding Arrangement"
  • DownBeat "Best Albums of the Year" 2017: Meretrio "Óbvio" & Mereneu Project "The Forbidden Dance"
  • DownBeat Student Award 2014 with the Mereneu Project: Category "Best Small Jazz Combo"

Discography (selection)

  • Heinrich von Kalnein & Meretrio: Passem, Natango Music 2019
  • Emiliano Sampaio: Music for Small and Large Ensemble, Session Work Records 2019
  • Meretrio: Obvió, Session Work Records 2016
  • Emiliano Sampaio Mereneu Project: The Forbidden Dance, Session Work Records 2016
  • Mega Mereneu Project: Tourists, Session Work Records 2015
  • Emiliano Sampaio: Mereneu Project, Session Work Records 2014
  • Projeto Meretrio: Solistas, Selo Cooperativa 2012
  • Meretrio: Meretrio, Selo Cooperativa 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Homepage of the artist, accessed on March 14, 2019
  2. ↑ Online article “Der Musik-Magnet”, accessed on March 14, 2019
  3. ^ Between Love and Luck , Allmusic, accessed June 3, 2019
  4. ↑ Emiliano Sampaio's Meretrio , Jazzclub Marburg, accessed June 3, 2019
  5. ↑ Mega Mereneu Project (Bavarian Jazzweekend 2019)
  6. ↑ DownBeat digital edition, DB1806, p. 119, accessed on March 14, 2019
  7. ↑ DownBeat digital edition, DB1806, p. 126, accessed on March 14, 2019
  8. ↑ Photo of the mention in DownBeat magazine on the artist's homepage, accessed on March 14, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Sampaio, Emiliano
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sampaio, Emiliano Cardoso (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian jazz musician, composer and arranger
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo