Samuel Quinto

Commander
Samuel Quinto
FRSA

Medal 50th Aniversary United Nations Peacekeeping Forces at São Paulo County Hall.
Background information
Birth name Samuel Quinto Feitosa
Born (1973-09-05)September 5, 1973
Belém, Pará, Brazil
Genres Jazz, Latin jazz, classical, pop, rock, MPB, gospel
Occupation(s) Maestro, composer, productor, pianist, educator, writer
Instruments Piano
Labels Numérica, Chiado Publishing
Associated acts Royal Society of Arts, American Council of Piano Performers, National Federation of Music Clubs, Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs, Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores, Order of Musicians from Brazil, Noble Order for Human Excellence, American Diplomatic Mission of International Relations, Academia Internacional de Artes, Letras e Ciência.
Website samuelquinto.com
Notable instruments
Piano

Samuel Quinto Feitosa, FRSA (born September 5, 1973) is a Brazilian pianist of jazz, pop, gospel, and classical music, as well a conductor, music producer, composer, arranger, educator, and writer who has lived in Portugal since 2004. Quinto grew up in Salvador, where he developed his art mainly on piano. He is a His Excellence Honorary Consul by American Diplomatic Mission of International Relations and Ambassador by Noble Order for Human Excellence.

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 in childhood with his family in Salvador. Samuel took his first steps in 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 the age of 25, leaving behind the study 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]

In 2004, Samuel Quinto moved to Portugal and began teaching jazz piano and Latin jazz in the city of Porto as well as participating in concerts and jazz festivals. He later formed his "Samuel Quinto Trio" and toured in Portugal and Spain. He was also 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 program in Jazz, as study material for training Jazz students. 

The second CD entitled "Salsa 'n Jazz", containing eight original compositions by Samuel Quinto, and the standard Stella by Starlight was launched in June 2009 at a concert in the city of Oporto, during his tour through Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands and England. In this second work, Samuel was accompanied by another Brazilian - classically trained Marcos Borges on bass - and Manuel Santiesteban, Cuban drummer. 

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

In late 2009, Mr. Quinto designed the first Latin Jazz course for Jazz School North, Porto - the first professional school of Jazz accredited in Portugal and the only one in the Iberian Peninsula to have the course in Instrumental Professional Jazz at that time. In addition to being invited to be the artistic director of one of the most traditional jazz Portuguese clubs, B-flat. 

Samuel has been invited to conduct workshops in Jazz, Latin Jazz, Composition and Arrangement both in Brazil and in Europe. With his musical talent not being limited to jazz, Mr. Quinto also wrote compositions to accompany the ballet on spectacles, as well as for orchestra and choir. 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, written in 2011, was the Symphony No. 1 in A flat Major "Pascha Aeternam" for the Orchestra, Chorus and soloists in 4 parts, that has emphasis on Easter.

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.  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!" 

RSA and International Federations

He is a member of the International Council for Traditional Music, a non-governmental organization in formal consultative relations with UNESCO; member of the American Council of Piano Performers, senior member of the National Federation of Music Clubs the only music organization member of the United Nations.

Samuel was invited to become the first international member of the Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs - PFMC.

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

In São Paulo he was appointed Commander of the Brazilian Society of Arts, Culture and Education and the Medal of Merit Maestro Carlos Gomes.

Received the Medal 50th Aniversary United Nations Peacekeeping Forces in Brazil.

He is also a Effective Member of the Academia Internacional de Artes, Letras e Ciência - Alpas 21.

Jazz style

Samuel's unique style reveals a strong influence of Michel Camilo's music, mixed with Chick Corea, Chucho Valdés, and Gonzalo Rubalcaba. 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.

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]

[6] "The Master of Latin Jazz".

Discography

References

  1. ↑ Biografia no site AllAboutJazz
  2. ↑ Entrevista em "Porto24"
  3. ↑ Boaz, Chip (23 July 2009). "Spotlight: Salsa' N Jazz, Samuel Quinto Trio". Latin Jazz Corner. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ Fagundes, Heloísa (August 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: |access-date= (help)
  6. ↑ "Member Spotlight: Samuel Quinto – The Master of Latin Jazz – Piano Performer Magazine". magazine.pianoperformers.org. Retrieved 2016-10-25.

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