Luciana Souza

Luciana Souza ( born June 14, 1966 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian jazz singer and composer, who is also active in the classical music field.

Life and work

Souza, daughter of poet Tereza Souza and guitarist and bossa nova composer Walter Santos, grew up in a musical environment. She studied four years on the Brazilian Universidade Estadual de Campinas, then graduated to the Berklee College of Music, the Bachelor 's degree in jazz composition and a master's degree at the New England Conservatory of Music.

Souza was employed by Hermeto Pascoal and has been recognized in this context in 1991 as Discovery of the Year by the APCA. Since 1999, it shall make his own albums. Several productions of Souza were nominated for a Grammy.

She continued to work with Danilo Perez, Romero Lubambo, Bob Moses, Maria Schneider, the Paul Winter Consort, Kenny Werner, John Patitucci, Steve Lacy and George Garzone. She is also on albums by Walter Becker (Circus Money ) by Herbie Hancock ( River: The Joni Letters ) involved and the duo Essence ( Shadow Dance). In the area of European art music, she joined with composer Osvaldo Golijov on the occasion of the Bach Academy in 2000; she also worked with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. In early 2011 gave Luciana Souza two concerts with the hr-Bigband. In the same year she performed at Ryan True Dells Centennial - with Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans.

Souza teaches at the Manhattan School of Music. She is married to the musician and producer Larry Klein and lives in New York City.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • An Answer to Your Silence ( NYC Records, 1999)
  • Neruda ( Sunnyside, 2004)
  • Duets II ( Sunnyside, 2005)
  • The New Bossa Nova ( Universal Records, 2007)
  • Tide ( Universal Music France, 2009)

Interpretations of classical music

  • Osvaldo Golijov La Pasión Según San Marcos / Markus Passion ( Haenssler Classic, 2001)
  • Osvaldo Golijov Oceana with the Kronos Quartet ( German Grammophon, 2007)
  • Los Angeles Guitar Quartet LAGQ Brazil ( Telarc, 2007)
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