Boris Gaquere (guitar - Belgium), and Renato Martins (percussions - Brazil) met in Brussels in 2004, during Renato first stay in Belgium.
Boris' approach to the traditional “Brazilian“ classical guitar style, influenced by his studies with Odair Assad, allows him to tour worldwide.
Renato's creativity with the Cajón and especially the Moringa, or clay pot, has made him to be regarded as Brazil's percussion rejuvenator.
For obvious reasons, they soon realized they had a similar approach to music and, after
Their repertoire, in addition to their own compositions, contains a number of Brazilian pieces by guitarists and composers of renown (Baden-Powell, Paulo Bellinati, Marco Pereira, etc). The set is a musical festival of instrumental rhythms and colours.
TEMPO FELIZ consecrates this union. As this recording clearly shows, they meet in perfect harmony and emphasize the bond they share between virtuosity and swing of the Brazilian rhythms.
The CD was released in the first quarter of 2006 on Mogno Music, a Belgian Jazz, Fusion & Roots specialist recording label ( http://www.mognomusic.com ).
They were guests at the Brno Guitar Festival in the Czech Republic in August 2005, and played selected appearances in Belgium, France, Czech Republic, Poland, Brazil and Argentina.
The upcoming events will take place in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and U.S.A.
Boris GAQUERE
Guitarist & Composer, born in 1977 in Brussels (Belgium)
Boris GAQUERE obtains First prize as well as a Superior Diploma of Guitar from the Royal Music Conservatoires of Brussels then Mons (Belgium), class of Sérgio and Odair Assad whom he currently assists.
Boris followed master-classes with Leo Brouwer, Roland Dyens, David Russell, Roberto Aussel, Costas Cotsiolis and Paulo Bellinati in the course of his studies.
In 1997, together with guitarist Denis SungHô they form the “Gaquere-SungHô Duo”. Very soon they are invited to play in concert cycles for young talent in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. Together they produce their first recording in 1998 for the CHAMBER label. The cd includes Astor Piazzolla's “Tango Suite”, Sérgio Assad's “Tres Cenas Brasileiras” as well as Boris' own 'Obrigado', composition for guitar, published by Productions d'Oz. Boris is delighted to discover that Obrigado is interpreted by other musicians around the world.
Boris' compositions are currently published by Productions d'Oz (Canada), GSP (California, USA) and Editions Lemoine (Paris, France).
Columbia Music Entertainment, Ltd. Japan, commissioned Boris to compose 'Tabi', as recorded and performed by Shin-ichi Fukuda in 2003. This gave Boris the opportunity to arrange and record several Antonio Carlos Jobim songs, for guitar and assorted ensembles, for the J-Room label, a subsidiary of Columbia Music Entertainment. Other Japanese guitarists have recorded Boris' musics: Yasuji Ohagi , for Victor Entertainment, Inc. and Tomonori Arai, for ALM Records.
Boris Gaquere pursues an international career with concerts in all major cities of Europe, both East and West. He also regularly performs both in North and South America as well as South Korea and Japan. Boris regularly appears in numerous radio and television shows.
In 2001, he recorded Astor Piazzolla's 'Double Concerto for Guitar and Bandonéon' for the RTBF (radio and Belgian national television) accompanied by the Wallonia Chamber Orchestra.
'Tempo Feliz' is Boris' current project. An album recorded with Brazilian master percussionist Renato Martins is the fruit of this labour which was released in the course of 2006, on Mogno Music a Belgian Jazz, Roots and Fusion recording label.
Boris Gaquere is the assistant of Odair Assad at Mons Royal Conservatory (Belgium).
Renato MARTINS
Multi instrumentalist, born in 1970 in Niterói (Brazil)
Renato Martins, the multi instrumentalist, born in Rio brought up in São Paulo, started to play percussion and piano when he was just four years old. His musical education started at six with maestro Silvio Tancredi, progressing on to study drums and piano concentrating on Brazilian popular music at Zimbo Trio's School, The CLAM. He also studied classical piano with Professor Leda Maria Chacur Alves, as well as harmony, composition and conducting at Santa Marcelina Arts University.
Renato was self-taught in a majority of his percussion techniques and created new techniques (melodically) for traditional instruments, for example, the moringa (clay pot). He is also known to have applied kitchen utensils as percussion instruments and has been considered ONE OF THE BEST PERCUSSIONISTS IN THE COUNTRY and a renewer of the Brazilian percussion by the specialized media.
Between 1994 and 1996 he lived in England and played with the tabla player Sarvar Sabri, the sax player Andy Hamilton and other big names of jazz and ethnic music in the country. He participated in festivals like Womad and The Birmingham Jazz Festival. He also played at The Queen Elizabeth Hall in London with the percussionist Nana Tsiboe from Ghana.
In 1998, back in Brazil, Renato Martins was the only percussionist to reach the semi finals in the 1 st Visa Award of Instrumental Brazilian Popular Music. Since then he worked in collaboration with famous Brazilian artists like Duda Neves, Sergio Sa, Moacyr Luz, Sa & Guarabyra, Tom Da Terra e Paulo Moura.
Renato Martins is also a musical educator and taught percussion at the 30 th and 31 st Winter Festivals of Campos do Jordao (July 1999 and 2000). He also teaches privately and does regular workshops at Music Schools and runs percussion courses.
He played at the Heineken Concerts in 2000 beside Andre Cristhovam and the American guitarist Taj Mahal and carried on playing beside some of the big names of the Brazilian instrumental music like: Andre Geraissati, Ulisses Rocha, Nelson Faria, Carlinhos Antunes, Mozart Mello, Roberto Sion, Celso Pixinga, Andre Mehmari and Celio Barros.
In 2003 Renato Martins launched his first solo CD, 'Indaia'. The album was celebrated by the media experts and it was released at the most prestigious venue of instrumental music in Brazil, the Instrumental Sesc Brasil, broadcasted by the cable channel Rede Sesc-Senac de Televisao with a big audience.
Renato Martins is based in Brussels since 2004 for five months promoting his solo album and working with several big names of the Belgium jazz scene like: Steve Houben, Victor da Costa, Henri Greindl, Daniel Stokart, Daniel Miranda, Maxime Blesín, and Osman Martins. He has played at some important venues of Brussels like Flagey, The Music Village, Théâtre Marni, and Téâtre Molière.
Renato Martins played with the Armenian group Arax at the project Le Monde est un Village. The concert took place at the Théâtre 140 and was broadcasted by the Belgian radio station RTBF. He also played in India at the Sai Baba's birthday celebration in November and played in London beside the saxophonist Martin Speake.
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