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João Paulo Drumond holds a bachelor’s degree in music/percussion from UFMG, and also is specializes in percussion at the conservatory in Strasbourg, France.

Take a look at some of his musical trajectory:

2010/11

• Professor of percussion by the prefecture of Sarzedo/Minas Gerais

2011

• Guest Percussionist at the General Symphonic Orchestra of Minas Gerais

2012

• Percussionist of the Angolan singer Lúcia de Carvalho

• Tour of Germany with singer Lúcia de Carvalho

• Concert off festival Montreaux/Switzerland

• Beginning of the Percussion course at Romanswiller/France

2012/13

• Professor of percussion by the city hall of Strasbourg

2013

• CD recording with singer Clara Weil (France)

• Participation of the show “L’ébouriffé” (co-production between the conservatory and the Bela Artes de Extras school)

2012/14

• Director of samba school (Théatre de la chimère) in the city of Haguenau/France2014

• Flamenco Concert (in Barcelona) with dancer Mélodie Gimard and guitarist Isabelle Laudenbach

• Launching of the Pandeiro-Voz project with the Cameroonian singer Landry Biana in the City of Strasbourg/France

• Tour of the Czech Republic with the Brazilian music group Pagod’Euro

• Participation in the show of the flamenco company “Y olé” in the city of Schiltighein/France

2015

• Guest Percussionist of the Symphony Orchestra of the State of São Paulo for the Opera “Ainadamar”

• Creation and composition of the “Unusual Block” with the Cia “theater of Fans” “Mevitevendo”/SP

• Launching of the “MULA Project” (in partnership with “ALCOVA LIBERTINA”)

• Launching of the Bogarim project

2016

• Composition of the track for the “20,000 leagues underwater” show by Cia de Ventiladores (premiered in April 2016 in São Paulo)

Bachelor in Music by ECA – USP and masters in music education by the same institution.

Musician and educator specialized in percussion and Brazilian rhythms. He is active in Brazil and abroad, teaching or playing with important names in instrumental music such as: Naná Vasconcelos, Yamandú Costa, Ivan Vilela,  André Mehmari, Toninho Ferraguti,  Egberto Gismonti, Cesar Camargo Mariano, Winton Marsalis and others.

He collaborated in the recording of several CDs by artists such as Mônica Salmaso, Zizi Possi, Ceumar, André Abujamha, Fabiana Cozza, Virginia Rosa, Fortuna, Anelis Assumpção and others.

He participates in numerous projects with the pianist Benjamim Taubkin (with whom he has traveled to several countries), highlighting Clareira (Repertory of Brazilian Popular Culture), Al Qantara (collaboration between musicians from Brazil and Morocco) and Co-Bra Project collaboration between musicians and songs from Brazil and Korea), all with CDs recorded. With Benjamim, he also worked for many years in the extinct Popular Chamber Orchestra and Contemporary America – a collective of musicians from various Latin American countries.

He taught Popular Percussion at Tom Jobim EMESP – SP Music School from 1993 to 2017. Currently, he holds the position of Artistic Manager of the Guri Project, teaches regular classes in his studio and courses and workshops at various institutions in Brazil and abroad.

Matheuzinho Schuch is a professional drummer since he was 12 years old. An eclectic musician with a vast musical baggage, he went through bands of dance, rock, heavy metal, pagode, reggae, pop and others.

During his career he had the opportunity to study and participate in master classes with renowned musicians such as: Marcelinho Freitas, Sandro Cartier, Kiko Freitas, Tony Royster, Horacio Hernandez, etc.

He recorded the dvds of João Bosco & Vinicius, Fred Liel, João Lucas & Diogo, Otávio & Raphael and others. He also recorded songs by several gospel artists, pops and sertanejos, such as: Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano, Maria Cecília & Rodolfo, Fred Liel and others.

Currently he is a musician at Replace Studio, and on tour with João Lucas & Diogo.

Luiz Guello began his musical training with Osvaldinho da Cuíca. In the 1980s he formed the ‘Percussion Free Group’, researching and composing pieces based on Brazilian rhythms. He has recorded numerous albums and performed with great names in Brazilian popular music such as Zizi Possi, Paulo Moura, Joyce, Marco Pereira, Badi Assad, Edson Cordeiro, Antônio Nóbrega, Mônica Salmaso, Sérgio Santos and Renato Brás.

He was a member of the ‘Sossega-Leão’ bands and the legendary ‘Mexe-com-Tudo’ that for almost a decade animated the nights of São Paulo.

Guello was a percussion teacher at the Conservatory of Music in Tatuí and has participated in several percussion festivals. In 1999 he was a guest soloist at the ‘Percussões do Brasil’ event at SESC and ‘International Percussion Festival’ in Mexico.

Currently, he is a member of the Popular Chamber Orchestra, the Mantiqueira Band, the Bonsai Trio and the Duo ELLO, “a percussion duet with Carlos Stasi, with whom is participating in several international festivals of percussion. At the moment Guello is also professor of the U.L.M. in Sao Paulo.

One of the most renowned percussionists in Brazil, Antônio China has an extensive experience and mastery of diverse rhythms and musical styles.

With enormous professional performance, he has worked, among many, such as: Baby do Brasil, Pepeu Gomes, Lucy Alves, Gd Gabriel Diniz, Wesley Safadão and Garota Safada, Marcia Filipe, Carlos Filho, Zé Filho, Giovanna Miranda, Alex Filho, Talismã, Nonatos, Renata Arruda, Dupla Romeu and Renato, Charles Ben, Jessier Quirino, Tereza Cavalcante and others.

China also played with: Caetano Veloso, Maria Rita, Marisa Monte, Sandra de Sá, Edwin Pitre Panama – Bassist, Pepe Cisneros (Cuban Pianist), Sebastian Pitre (Argentine Guitarist) and others.

Mamour Ba is a Senegalese percussionist, composer and multi-instrumentalist, which has been dedicated to music since the age of seven.

Show Man is the right word for Mamour. He uses dance, musicality in improvisations, voice timbres, interpretation, presence, regency, tuning in with the musicians and making these tools a real magic by creating by creating improvised arrangements and involving the audience with melodies and striking themes. His shows are a fusion of the African Tribal Root, Baroque melodies, Expressions of Black Music and World Music, also a fusion with pop, jazz and electronic, in which he uses melodically and harmonically tuned percussion instruments.

Mamour also has a vast international career. He joined dance and percussion groups in Senegal. Graduated from the University of Art of Dakar, Faculty of Modern Dance Mudra, inspiring the School of Maurice Bejart in Belgium. Master’s degree in music from the University of Versailles-France. He graduated in classical guitar at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, having studied with great names, such as: Guerra Peixe, Dolarino, Kohoitter.

With the support of UNESCO, he made exchanges in France, United States, Canada, Spain, Italy, USSR, Germany, Japan and China;

He also joined research groups at the University of African Art, visiting more than twenty African countries.