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Artist
Almir Côrtes
10+ albums
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about
Almir Côrtes was born in Santo Antonio de Jesus, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. He is a musician, as well as an academic researcher in the field of Brazilian instrumental music. He plays genres that are considered “traditional” or “regional” (choro, frevo, baião, etc), but with a contemporary approach that includes experimentation and improvisation. Almir acts as a multi-instrumentalist of fingered strings (mandolin, guitar, electric guitar, cavaquinho and viola caipira). He has an undergraduate diploma in classical guitar from UFBA (Federal University of Bahia). He also has a Master’s degree in music, and at present is working on a Ph.D. in popular music performance at UNICAMP (State University of Campinas). In 2005, his composition Freveando was awarded the Best Instrumental Music prize at the III Festival de Música Educadora FM in Bahia. He has played professionally and given workshops allover Brazil, United States (Berklee College of Music) and in Europe (Italy, France and Spain). He has recorded two CDs, “Almir Côrtes” (Fábrica Discos, 2006) and “Choro da Voz” (Gravina Música, 2008, in partnership with the singer Bel Dias). Among other places, He hás performed at the XIV Festival de Música Instrumental da Bahia, Zero Hour Tango Fest, III Encontro de Cordas da Mantiqueira, VI Prêmio Nabor Pires Camargo, I Festival de Inverno de Jaguariúna and the Mostra de Música Instrumental do Sesc Campinas. He also organized the V Encontro Nacional de Choro da Unicamp in April 2009.
