Benjamim Taubkin – solo piano
Foto: Angélica Del Nery
TOUR JULY 09 – BENJAMIM TAUBKIN & ENSEMBLES
02 Jul Benjamim Taubkin Quartet feat. Ari Colares, Lula Alencar & João Taubkin at Timitar Festival, Agadir, Morocco
18 Jul Solo Piano at Ruta del Cister Festival, Tarragona, Spain
19 Jul Special guest at Roger Mas concert at FIMPT, Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona), Spain
24 Jul Benjamim Taubkin & ensembles Moderna Tradição & Núcleo de Música do Abaçaí at Glatt und Verkehrt, Krems, Vienna
28 Jul Solo Piano at The Vortex Jazz Club, London, United Kingdom - Buy tickets London
THE CONCERTS
The Brazilian master pianist who has been performing – as well as in Brazil – in Europe, the US and Canada, brings his music to Europe and North West Africa in July.
Taubkin will perform solo on piano in Europe, in Spain and the UK, where he makes his debut at the traditional venue in London, the Vortex Jazz Club. The concert, which immediately follows an artistic residence in Austria, will include themes from Brazilian music, embracing both its traditional and modern
expressions and fusing these with other world music influences.
“Dynamics,” says Benjamim, “are one of the main means to execute and explore contemporary music and its relation to bossa and jazz”. The themes are based on his most recent CD, recorded at Fazioli Salon, New York’s Piano House, which will be launched in the US by Adventure Music in 2009.
Benjamim also will be doing a tour and an artistic residence in Morocco with his quartet, formed by Ari Colares (percussion), Lula Alencar (accordion) and João Taubkin (bass). In Austria he will perform with his two ensembles: Moderna Tradição and with Núcleo de Música do Abacaí.
REVIEWS
“Played in a tender, understated style that spoke from the heart, “Vibrações” was gracefully ecstatic; Jobim’s “Morro Não Tem Vez”, a lyric, gentle samba, was light but rich; “Sabiá Voou” evoked the attentive birds outside Benjamim’s window in São Paulo; and ‘Consolação’ went so deeply into the cone that I forgot I was supposed to be paying attention”
Tom Greenland, All About Jazz
“Benjamim searches for the beauty. And he reaches it in every possible aesthetic element”
Paulo Cunha, Jornal da tarde
“A tender and Gismontian journey through Brazilian music” (referring to Egberto Gismonti style)
Mauro Dias, Estado de São Paulo
“Benjamim’s compositions bring a total understanding of Brazilian music, a great cd”
(reviewing his first CD A Terra e o Espaço Aberto)
Luís Antônio Giron, Gazeta Mercantil
“Great arrangements were built around the lush piano of Benjamim Taubkin”
(about his work with the singer Zizi Possi)
The New Tork Times
“Benjamin Taubkin has a jazzy touch on the piano, comfortable with everything from pop to samba”
(about his work with the singer Zizi Possi)
New York Newsday
Foto: Fernando Fiuza
BENJAMIM TAUBKIN
Brazilian music has been the playing field for this instrumentalist, arranger, composer, and producer. As a musician he has participated in several formations, ranging from solo work to symphonic orchestras – presented in Brazil and abroad.
Some of the most recent projects he’s participated in as musician and arranger include: Jobim Sinfônico, Samwad – Rua do Encontro, Milágrimas, Orquestra Jazz Sinfônica, Paulo Moura and Monica Salmaso.
His current projects as musician and director include: the Latin american collective América Contemporânea, the Orquestra Popular de Câmara, the choro ensemble Moderna Tradição, his work with the traditional music group Abaçai and his jazz project Trio + 1.
In his solo career he is about to release his second CD, which was recorded in New York and will be released first in the US by Adventure Music and then in Brasil by Núcleo Contemporâneo. The first one A Terra e o Espaço Aberto was very well received by the press, critics and audience.
He is present as a musician or producer on more than 130 discs. He has coordinated projects for institutions like Itaú Cultural, and the São Paulo State Secretary of Culture. He has developed programs for SESC, CPFL, and CCBB. He is the musical curator for the Mercado Cultural da Bahia and is a member of the European Forum for World Music
