Gustavo D’Ippolito

Gustavo D'Ippolito was born in Sao Paulo - Brazil. Born in a musician’s family he had begun his activities in music at home through piano and musical theory classes from his sister. At the same time he started to learn acoustic guitar from friends and took some electric bass lessons. Straight after he had started his private Double Bass classes. In 2003 he graduated at “Faculdade Mozarteum of Sao Paulo”. Gustavo took part in several music festivals around the world where he had taken classes from renowed bassists and played chamber music and solo recitals. At Experimental Repertoire Orchestra, from Sao Paulo State Theater, he had worked as Principal and recorded Operas for television. At Sao Paulo Musician’s Company Orchestra and at Sao Paulo University Symphony Orchestra he played as soloist. In 2001 he took part in ISB – International Society of Bassists – Convention, in Indiana – USA. He had also played in concerts of Sinfonietta de Lausanne, Camerata Bellerive and Weinbergerkammerorchester in Switzerland, and Vienna Classical Players, in Austria. In 2004 and 2005 he took part in the Internationales Orchester Instituit Attergau, where he could focus his learning about vienesse styles and sounds. Talking about popular music, from 2002 to 2005 he was a member of the Tropical Double Bass Orchestra which was a performing group that explored many different types of sounds and possibilities in the Double Bass for world music arrangements, and also recorded some television programs. In 2003 he founded the Sinuca Trio, playing Brazilian instrumental music. Nowadays he lives in Vienna and has been playing with great musicians at many different classical and popular groups including Concilium Musicum Wien, playing old music using period instruments, Trio Aquarelas, diffusing the classical and popular music from Brazil, and Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

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