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TRIO BERNARDO Latin American music [about the trio]
(Promo DVD)
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Solo: 02:58 min. / 12,1 MB / MP4 video 04:02 min. / 16,3 MB / MP4 video 02:59 min. / 12,1 MB / MP4 video |
Trio: 02:37 min. /10,6 MB/ MP4 video 0:47 min. / 3,13 MB / MP4 vide0 02:26 min. / 9,98 MB / MP4 video 02:30 min. / 10,2 MB / MP4 video |
Barend Schipper Solo & Trio Bernardo:
Trio Bernardo - Latin American Music
Barend ‘Bernardo’ Schipper, pianist,
vocalist and composer
worked as piano soloist and composer with the radio jazz symphony
Metropole Orchestra at age 21,
studied jazz with the New York pianist Bela Lakatos in Hungary, and also
classical music.
His mother, born in Curacao, the Dutch Caribbean, received her piano
lessons
from the national composer Sjon ‘Coco’ Palm, a friend of Arthur
Rubinstein.
So, from early childhood on, Barend heard the joyous piano and dance
music of the Caribbean.
He composes the music for the trio. He studied composition in Brussels,
Amsterdam, Helsinki and Budapest.
Bert van Erk, double
bass player, played in Senegal African music with Souleymane Faye,
Africando and Ngaari Laaw. In Utrecht and Amsterdam he played jazz with
Slide Hampton, Boy Edgar Big Band, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Stan
Tracey.
He performed for queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on more than one
occasion.
Choco Ramirez, Latin American percussionist studied percussion at the
university of music in Costa Rica,
with famous percussionists of his country and Cuba.
He played for years in the black calypso scene of Costa Rica and played with Roy Cooder’s Buena Vista
Social Club
when they toured the Netherlands. [page down]
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