Portuguese Yamaha Artist, Sérgio Carolino began his tuba studies at the age of just eleven, at the Lisbon National Conservatory School of Music, and then at the prestigious Geneva Conservatory (Switzerland) with Pierre Pilloud and in the chamber music class of Kurt Sturzenegger. He attended various Master Classes with such renowned teachers as Roger Bobo, Mel Culbertson, Shmuel Hershko, Gene Pokorny and Harvey Philips. His wide range of interests and his musical curiosity led him along different paths of musical expression, from a typical classical repertoire to pure jazz and improvised music. He became established as a virtuoso in the standard and contemporary repertoires of the tuba. He was principal tuba with the Lisbon Metropolita Orchestra (1997-2001), and worked on a regular basis with several portuguese orchestras including the Portuguese Symphony, the Gulbenkian Orchestra and the Remix-Ensemble. Sérgio as played and made master classes in prestigious Superior Music Schools and Festivals around the world (Spain, France, Switzerland, Finland, Belgium, Holland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, England, Austria, Australia) and sooner the USA, Taiwan, and China.
He has been a member of many Youth Orchestras, including the European Community Wind Orchestra. Since 2002, he has been involved in new and innovative music projects: the ‘TGB’ trio with Mário Delgado and Alex Frazão, '2tUBAS & friends' with Anne Jelle Visser (tuba) & Michael Lauren (drums), 'XL' duo with the pianist Telmo Marques, the Portuguese Tuba Ensemble 'How Low Can You Go?', 'European Tuba Trio' with François Thuillier (tuba) and Anthony Caillet (euphonium), 'The Postcard Brass Band' and the ‘Low Frequency Tuba Band’ with Marcus Rojas, Jay Rozen & Oren Marshall (tubas). Currently, Carolino teaches tuba and chamber music at the Superior School of Music & Arts – ESMAE (Oporto) and, since 2002, has been principal tuba with the Oporto National Orchestra. In 2007, he recorded his first solo, live CD, “Steel aLive!†which is considered to be a masterpiece in the international tuba scene.
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