ITEAOnline Audio Library: SERGIO CAROLINO
Steel aLive!
Portuguese International Yamaha Artist, Sergio Carolino is one of the most demanded tuba soloists and brass lecturers throughout the world.
Sergio 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 of Music (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. Sergio played as soloist and made master classes at some of the most prestigious universities, superior music schools and festivals around the World (Spain, France, Switzerland, Finland, Belgium, Nederland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, England, Austria, Australia, Norway, the USA, Thailand, Peru, Brazil, Japan) and sooner Luxembourg, China, Russia, Argentina, Singapore & Croatia.
Since 2002, he has been involved in new and innovative music projects: the TGB trio with Mario Delgado and Alexandre Frazao, 2tUBAS& friends with Anne Jelle Visser (tuba), XL trio & duo with the pianist Telmo Marques & Jeffery Davis (marimba/vibraphone), director of the Portuguese Tuba Ensemble How Low Can You Go?, European Tuba Trio with François Thuillier (tuba) and Anthony Caillet (euphonium), TUBIC with the puppets company SA Marionetas, Tubby "n Saxes!, The Postcard Brass Band, Tu B'Horn with Jose Bernardo Silva (horn), TUBAX with Mario Marques (soprano sax), Mr SC & The Wild Bones Gang, The Low Frequency Tuba Band with Marcus Rojas, Jay Rozen & Oren Marshall (tubas), the duo TUBAB with drummer Jorge Queijo and more recently Sergio Carolino"s The Devil"s Blow - Tuba uNit (9 tubas & drums).
Currently, Carolino teaches tuba and chamber music at the Oporto Superior Conservatory of Music & Arts (ESMAE) and, since 2002, has been principal tuba with the Porto Symphony Orchestra - Casa da Musica.
In 2007, he recorded his first solo, live CD, "Steel aLive!" which is considered to be a masterpiece in the international tuba scene and as won the "2008 Roger Bobo Award Price for Excellence in Recording" given by the International Tuba Euphonium Association (ITEA) at the last International Tuba Euphonium Conference (ITEC) in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Recently, the CD "Agreements & Disagreements" with his project 2tUBAS&friends with Dutch tuba player Anne Jelle Visser, as won the "2010 Roger Bobo Award Prize for Excellence in Recording" making this, his second Bobo Award! In 2004 he also got the "Carlos Paredes Award" for the TGB trio"s first CD "TubaGuitarra&Bateria" and have been considered the Portuguese Jazz Musician Revelation of the Year by jazz critic, Jose Duarte.
Sergio plays on his own Yamaha personalized mouthpieces, made by master Thomas Lubitz (Yamaha Corp.), and with his own design mute "Mushroom Cup Mute" made by Austrian maker, Johann Schlipfinger.
Recently, Sergio as conceived a new instrument, based on Oren Marshall's Orenophone, made by North-Americans brass makers, Tim Sullivan and Harold Hartman, which he called Lusophone 'Lucifer'!
for more information, please visit:
www.sergiocarolinotuba.com
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1260506346& sk=info
For additional sound clips, visit www.afinaudio.net
See video of Sergio performing @ Youtube.com
Read interview with Sergio at ITEA Profile Volume 31 of the ITEA Journal
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