Carlos Azevedo

Carlos Azevedo an extraordinarily creative musician, who's relationship with music as a composer and pianist is a long one.
He studied under Jorge Peixinho, among other reputable teachers. While he was Director of the Escola de Jazz of the Hot Clube de Portugal, (* HCP - Jazz School) and teacher, he taught many. He is an award winning composer, having won a “Gold Leopard” Award – for Best Original Score in Lucarno, Switzerland (for “Zefiro”), among other prizes.
His music has also won 1st place on various other occasions for original score in other films along with other works (i.e. Marcha da Bica * Bica March / in the Lisbon Summer Festivity – “Santos Populares, marchas de Stº António ”). He has performed with many reputable musicians (i.e. Steve Potts, Jan Kaczmarec – Oscar winner for “Best Original Score – 2005”, José Mário Branco, Fausto, Paleka, Carlos Barretto, Maria João, João Courinha, João Balao, Ricardo Rocha, João Braga, etc. He founded and played in a number of ensembles (Kyrie, Bronx na Mouraria, Imjad, etc.), having also performed in a variety of Festivals (i.e. Brugge Jazz Festival, Brügge - Belgium, and others).
Founder of various schools for the study of music, he has given numerous workshops all over Portugal. He composes on a regular basis for the theatre, cinema, and for most of the groups in which he plays. (by M. Sande Freire)- to see more about Carlos please view his blog- under "brief curriculum" (in either English or Portuguese)

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Since he is allergic to computers (as with other instruments/"toys"- he only uses them sometimes for musical purposes)
this site is managed by his friends - we give him his messages - and he himself answers (though sometimes it might take a bit of time. When this occurs we beg your indulgence for our tardiness - he is deeply touched by some of your kind messages and comments)
Most of his pieces (in all the styles he writes) are too large to place here, but we have managed to place three more today in the area of Jazz and Nujazz (July 19 / 2007). On behalf of Carlos we thank you very much for your visit and and hope you have enjoyed this very small sample of his music.