Three musicians born in 1963 proposed a program dedicated to listening to multiple frequencies of Brazilian music creation.

The flutist Andrea Ernest, pianist Paulo Braga and percussionist Marcos Suzano do justice to the best of their generation, moving freely and with ease through an extensive field of music. The rhythm and constant pulse of Brazilian music permeates the sound of this trio.

Andrea and Paulo, with their experience on stage and in chamber music studios, classical symphony and popular music, encompass the legacy of great Brazilian musicians, expressing with virtuosity, lyrical quality and classical harmonies and the present day relevance of instrumental music. Suzano, with his original and restless percussion, complete (re)understanding of its African origins, recreated by digital procedures and samplers echoes the cosmopolitanism of Brazilian rhythms and sounds.

PRESENTATIONS

2005 The Trio 3-63 debuted in the series- Vision du Brésil (Vision of Brazil) GMEM - Centre National de Musique in Marseille, France.

20077th Instrumental Festival of Brazil, Tatuí, SP/ Series Other Greats in the CPFL, Campinas, SP.

2008 Phusion Project at CCBB, Rio de Janeiro/ Francisca’s House, São Paulo, SP.

2009 Phusion Project at CCBB, São Paulo, SP / The first concert for the launching of the CD Trio 3-63, Espaço Tom Jobim Culture and Environment, Rio de Janeiro / PERCPAN, Theatre Castro Alves, Salvador, Bahia and Theatre Oi Casa Grande, Rio de Janeiro.

THE REPERTOIRE

The broad spectrum of composers and music played by Trio 3-63 is the result of an immersion in Brazilian music, where different breeds of sounds are aligned in a way that beat and enter within. The group at the same time works with big national names in Brazilian pop music such as Tom Jobim, Joaquim Callado and Pixinguinha, is connected with the sounds of events today, and enjoys the plural formation of its members to offer their listeners new compositions, for example, the electro acoustic piece by Roberto Victorio, and shows the younger generation of Brazilian composers classics such as Guerra-Peixe and Luiz D’Anunciação. Their repertoire, apparently eclectic wins praise for its aesthetic synchronicity and the high-level instrumentalism of its musicians, which gives cohesion and originality to their record. People of different age groups have participated, in this way, to give a listening experience that covers the musical tradition and a new Brazilian creation.

THE MUSICIANS

Andrea Ernest

Since the early ’80s, cariocan flutist Andrea Ernest has been a constant presence on stage and in the discography of Brazilian pop music MPB, symphonic and chamber music. Bachelor’s degree in flute from the University of Brasilia and a Masters from UFRJ, where she presented a dissertation on The Expression of the Brazilian popular flute - A School of Interpretation. Flutist for the National Symphony Orchestra-UFF, integrates as well groups Pife Muderno, Quintet Pixinguinha, Ouro Negro and Anacleto de Medeiros. She served as soloist with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Recife, and in various formations in a series of chamber music for the CCBB, Biennial of Brazilian Contemporary Music Funarte, Rock’n Rio in 2000 and in the Free Jazz 1988, 1991, 1997 and 2001. She has performed in Portugal, France, Venezuela, United States, Japan, Morocco, Denmark and several Brazilian capitals. In 1995 she performed in Concert Celebration of Independence at the headquarters of the Brazilian Mission at the UN, playing Villa-Lobos and Lorenzo Fernandez. She made her debut with the Orchestra Opus-Rio, the Divertimento para flauta em sol e cordas, by Radames Gnattali. With the Quintet Pixinguinha, was soloist of Project Aquarius in 2002 to an audience of 20 thousand people. She has participated in major Brazilian recording titles such as CDs Ouro Negro - Moacir Santos (winner of the Faces of Brazilian Music, Instrumental category, 2002 - MP’B / Universal), Carlos Malta and Pife Muderno (1st finalist for the Latin Grammy/2000 - Rob Digital), Joaquim Calado, the father of Chorão (Acari); Sempre Anacleto (Kuarup); Pixinguinha 100 anos (CCBB); Pixinguinha Orchestra (Kuarup). Her flute is heard on recordings by Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Baden Powell, Guinga, Edu Lobo, Cassia Eller and Milton Nascimento, among other artists of MPB. She has participated in several recent releases in the music industry, including DVDs Velho Amigo - Baden Powell, Ouro Negro (Petrobras, 2005), Um sopro de Brasil (Petrobras, 2006) and CDs Choros and Alegria (Biscoito Fino, 2005), Jobim Jazz (Adnet Music, 2007) and Afrosambajazz (Biscoito Fino, 2009). Music producer as well as instrumentalist, has released the CD Andrea Ernest Dias - flute and Tomás Improta - piano (Biscoito Fino, 2005) and the Choros Amorosos CD (SESC Rio, 2009). In May 2009, she performed in solo at the “Festival Les Musiques-Festival International des Musiques d ’aujourd’hui of GMEM in Marseille”, from which produced a CD dedicated to the contemporary electro acoustic repertoire with works of French and Brazilian composers.

Marcos Suzano

Born in Rio de Janeiro, percussionist Marcos Suzano is currently one of the musicians most recognized in Brazil and abroad. His research in electronic music unites with a deep understanding of African Music origin (especially Candomblé) which translates into a brand marked by his virtuosity and originality, using a sampler, skillfully manipulated for an individuality of sound. Artistic director of Percpan Festival (an annual overview of world percussion), took part in important groups in Brazil and abroad, playing with, among others, Gilberto Gil, Carlos Malta and Pife Muderno, Sting, Myiazawa and Joan Baez, and lead his own group Sambatown. His ideas for the renewal of Brazilian percussion with an emphasis on tambourine are taught in workshops in Brazil, Europe (France, Italy, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium), Japan and the United States. His discography includes solo Olho de Peixe albums (independent) Sambatown (MPB), Flash (Trama) and Atarashii (Sambatown). In this last album he performed the entire repertoire in a way influenced by Nordic musicians, of free composition and structures where it comes to melodies, harmonies and bass lines, a part of the numerical procedures of transformation of sound percussion. In 2007, released the CD Satolep Sambatown (MP, B), in partnership with the composer and singer Vittor Ramil.

Paulo Braga

He graduated from the Conservatory Tatuí, where he later began to develop teaching activities as a piano teacher and group practice, and is responsible in 1990 for the creation of the Department of Popular Music. He was professor at UNICAMP from 1999 to 2003. He is a professor in the Department of Popular Music Center of Musical Studies Tom Jobim. Together with Paul Flores is responsible for seasons of the Brazil Instrumental Festival, an event representative of Brazilian music. He served as soloist with the Symphonic Band and symphonic Jazz Orchestra of the State of Sao Paulo, Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, Camerata Villa-Lobos, Camerata Antiqua de Curitiba, Symphony Orchestra and the Camerata Strings Tatuí. He develops intense research work about the piano in jazz and in MPB, and its fusion with music avant-garde. He was part of QuartaD (group of contemporary classical music) and the Trio Bonsai, considered by critics as one of the top names in instrumental Brazilian popular music. Since 1988 has been part of the group of Arrigo Barnabé, developing a musical language based on classical avant-garde music, Brazilian rhythms and jazzy elements not stylistically focused on improvisation. In 2006, completed a European tour with singer Monica Salmaso and group.