Workshop "Brazilian Choro"

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The workshop is aimed at students and employees of the HfMT as well as interested members of the public. To actively participate in the workshop, you must register by email at nikolai.voigt@posteo.de, state your instrument and bring it with you to the workshop. The prerequisite for melody instruments is the ability to read music, for harmony instruments the ability to play chords and for percussion instruments rhythmic confidence and a good ear with a high degree of interaction skills!
But you are also welcome to just watch: everyone is welcome!

Choro - also known as chorinho - is an instrumental music played in an ensemble and is the oldest urban music style in Brazil. In choro, classical European harmonies and musical forms such as waltz and polka meet Afro-Brazilian rhythms such as maxixe or samba. The multicultural mix creates a special sound that is enhanced by traditional Brazilian instruments such as the pandeiro, the cavaquinho, the 7-string guitar or the bandolim.

In this workshop, the Brazilian musicians Adriano Trabach (recorder) and Adriana Soares (pandeiro) and the Hamburg guitarist Nikolai Voigt (7-string guitar) will give an introduction to the history and ensemble playing of choro. The aim is to convey what makes up choro and what special features and possibilities the music has in ensemble playing.
The first part gives an overview of the history, the instruments and the form of the music and shows how the more than 150-year-old tradition is practiced in Brazil today. The second part is a practical introduction by playing music together and focusing on all areas of melody, accompaniment and rhythm of selected pieces. After this, all participants should have an orientation to be able to play successfully in a "Roda de Choro" (Choro jam session).

Adriano da Silva Trarbach (born 2001), Brazilian recorder player and cellist, has been living in Germany since 2018, when he received a scholarship for an exchange year. Born in S. Jerônimo-RS, Brazil, he began learning the recorder and later the cello in 2011 as part of the Dorcas project, which supports children and young people in the social neighborhood of Bonfim in the Curitiba-PR metropolitan region. He is currently studying cello in Prof. Clemens Malich's class at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, where he also successfully completed his recorder studies with Prof. Peter Holtslag in the summer of 2023. Adriano is also intensively involved in baroque cello playing. In the 2024 season, he will join the renowned Ensemble Holland Baroque as a Young Fellow.

Adriana Soares grew up with the choro tradition in her home town of Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais), where she regularly took part in the traditional Rodas de Choro. Her main instrument in choro is the rhythm instrument pandeiro. After many years of teaching as a music teacher in Brazil, she began studying classical flute at "Mensch Musik" in fall 2022 and started to initiate further musical projects with Brazilian popular music in Hamburg.

Nikolai Voigt is musically at home both in classical music and in South American popular music, especially Brazilian choro. He has been studying guitar at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama with Professor Olaf van Gonnissen since 2018. Various stays abroad and music projects have broadened his horizons and allowed him to grow into a versatile musical personality. During his bachelor's degree at the Robert Schumann Hochschule, he took part in an exchange at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki from 2014 to 2015 and spent time in South America (Uruguay and Brazil) during his master's degree from 2020 to 2022, where he studied 7-string guitar and choro.
He is particularly interested in playing together and working in ensembles with other musicians. He has performed in various line-ups with two guitars, guitar and vocals and with different choro ensembles. He toured Germany and Italy with the Trio Candeeiro in 2022. He is also a guitar teacher at the Hamburg State Youth Music School.

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Registration is required
If you would like to participate actively, please send an email to nikolai.voigt@posteo.de stating your instrument.
For participation as a listener, please register via eventbrite.