New Classes starting August 5th !!!
NEW! The Musical Universe of Hermeto Pascoal
... a deep dive into this Brazilian legend...
... a deep dive into this Brazilian legend...
For all musicians and music lovers!
In this online course, Jovino Santos Neto will share his experience of more than 4 decades working with Hermeto Pascoal as a pianist, flutist, producer and librarian of a musical archive containing thousands of compositions.
We will listen together to many musical samples taken from Jovino’s vast library of exclusive unpublished recordings and will also examine Hermeto’s scores and musical concepts in depth. Jovino will share unique stories to exemplify Hermeto’s ideas and methods.
This class is aimed at intermediate and advanced musicians who wish to expand their knowledge of one of the most iconic and unique creators of our time. It is also open to anyone who is interested in knowing more about Hermeto and his profound ideas about music, creativity and the universe.
Sessions will be held weekly on Wednesday from August 5 to 26
9 AM to 12 PM PDT (12-3 PM EDT, 18:00-21 CET)
Each session will be 3 hours long, with a 15-minute break
In this online course, Jovino Santos Neto will share his experience of more than 4 decades working with Hermeto Pascoal as a pianist, flutist, producer and librarian of a musical archive containing thousands of compositions.
We will listen together to many musical samples taken from Jovino’s vast library of exclusive unpublished recordings and will also examine Hermeto’s scores and musical concepts in depth. Jovino will share unique stories to exemplify Hermeto’s ideas and methods.
This class is aimed at intermediate and advanced musicians who wish to expand their knowledge of one of the most iconic and unique creators of our time. It is also open to anyone who is interested in knowing more about Hermeto and his profound ideas about music, creativity and the universe.
Sessions will be held weekly on Wednesday from August 5 to 26
9 AM to 12 PM PDT (12-3 PM EDT, 18:00-21 CET)
Each session will be 3 hours long, with a 15-minute break
New classes starting August 4th !!!
NEW! 5 centuries of Brazilian Music
For all musicians and music lovers!
This course has 10 sessions of 80 minutes each, taught to a small group (under 12 participants) via Zoom. The instructor is Jovino Santos Neto, a Brazilian pianist, composer and educator with strong credentials: an environmental biologist, a member of the legendary Hermeto Pascoal Group for 15 years, a music producer nominated for 3 Latin Grammies and a Professor of Music at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts since 1994. Jovino is respected worldwide for his knowledge and delivery style, presenting deep musical concepts with simple examples, often taken from nature.
Sessions will be held twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays
10 AM to 11:20 PM Pacific Time,
from Tuesday August 4th until Thursday, September 3rd.
This course has 10 sessions of 80 minutes each, taught to a small group (under 12 participants) via Zoom. The instructor is Jovino Santos Neto, a Brazilian pianist, composer and educator with strong credentials: an environmental biologist, a member of the legendary Hermeto Pascoal Group for 15 years, a music producer nominated for 3 Latin Grammies and a Professor of Music at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts since 1994. Jovino is respected worldwide for his knowledge and delivery style, presenting deep musical concepts with simple examples, often taken from nature.
Sessions will be held twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays
10 AM to 11:20 PM Pacific Time,
from Tuesday August 4th until Thursday, September 3rd.
"Jovino is an enthusiastic tour guide to the entirety of Brazilian music! He is historically knowledgeable and musically astute in the fascinating choices he plays for the class from his deep archive of recordings. Anyone who loves Brazilian music - either as a player or a scholar - will love this class as much as I did." ~ Fred Hersch
I have had the good fortune to take classes with Jovino both face to face at California Brazil Camp and elsewhere, and online through his 5 Centuries of Brazilian Music course on Zoom. He is an enthusiastic, fluent, and incredibly knowledgeable teacher who brings direct experience with the music as one of the world’s leading Brazilian jazz pianists. Combined with his broad awareness of history, culture, and nature and a really engaging way of presenting, his classes are superb learning experiences. I would say that the Zoom classes were as good as, or even better in some ways, than the in-person lectures, as he could respond to questions and follow up with selecting recordings from what I imagine is a HUGE database of music on his computer. The students of the Zoom class are left with an outline of new music to follow up on, and new artists to explore. But live or online, he combined improvisational energy with a strong sense of structure and continuity, just like his playing. Thanks, Jovino for broadening my horizons and for the great fun!
~ Eric Siegel
Like the United States and Cuba, Brazil has an incredibly rich and varied musical landscape, as a result of an infusion/collision of numerous cultural and historical influences. As a result of his having grown up in this environment, and then having worked for decades as an accomplished musician and composer based in Brazil while touring internationally, and subsequently having worked as an educator here in the U.S. for a quarter century, Jovino is uniquely positioned to provide a meaningful overview of the width and breadth of Brazilian Music. This 10-session class of his was both highly informative and thoroughly enjoyable.
~ Steven Cantor
I have had the good fortune to take classes with Jovino both face to face at California Brazil Camp and elsewhere, and online through his 5 Centuries of Brazilian Music course on Zoom. He is an enthusiastic, fluent, and incredibly knowledgeable teacher who brings direct experience with the music as one of the world’s leading Brazilian jazz pianists. Combined with his broad awareness of history, culture, and nature and a really engaging way of presenting, his classes are superb learning experiences. I would say that the Zoom classes were as good as, or even better in some ways, than the in-person lectures, as he could respond to questions and follow up with selecting recordings from what I imagine is a HUGE database of music on his computer. The students of the Zoom class are left with an outline of new music to follow up on, and new artists to explore. But live or online, he combined improvisational energy with a strong sense of structure and continuity, just like his playing. Thanks, Jovino for broadening my horizons and for the great fun!
~ Eric Siegel
Like the United States and Cuba, Brazil has an incredibly rich and varied musical landscape, as a result of an infusion/collision of numerous cultural and historical influences. As a result of his having grown up in this environment, and then having worked for decades as an accomplished musician and composer based in Brazil while touring internationally, and subsequently having worked as an educator here in the U.S. for a quarter century, Jovino is uniquely positioned to provide a meaningful overview of the width and breadth of Brazilian Music. This 10-session class of his was both highly informative and thoroughly enjoyable.
~ Steven Cantor