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Life & Work
Bio:
Ivan Sacerdote is a clarinetista from Salvador, Bahia, a chorão (he plays the Brazilian style called "choro", somewhat analogous to jazz in the United States).
O clarinetista Ivan Sacerdote iniciou seus estudos com o clarinete aos 12 anos. Em 2003, aos 16 anos inicia seus estudos com o professor Pedro Robatto na Escola Estadual Deputado Manoel Novaes.
Em 2005 ingressa no curso de bacharelado em Instrumento na Universidade Federal da Bahia na classe do mesmo professor. Participou de cursos e Workshops pelo Brasil com professores renomados como: Paulo Sérgio Santos (RJ), Luis Afonso Montanha (SP), Edmilson Nery (SP), Jorge Montilla (Venezuela), André Kerver (Holanda), Fernando Silveira (RJ), Ricardo Freire (Brasília), Joel Barbosa (SP) e Jose Luis Estellés (Espanha).
Foi solista da Orquestra Sinfônica da UFBA em 2006 e da Orquestra Sinfônica da Bahia em 2007. Participou como convidado da Orquestra de Sergipe, da Orquestra de Câmara da USP e Orquestra Sinfônica da Bahia. No mesmo ano é premiado no concurso de Jovens Solistas do Festival de Inverno de Brasília tendo como prêmio um recital solista na Sala Villa Lobos.
Trabalhou no Projeto NEOJIBA (Núcleos Estaduais de Orquestras Juvenis e Infantis da Bahia) como monitor fundador e chefe de naipe. Em 2008 foi clarinetista do VI ENCUN (Encontro Nacional de Compositores Universitários) como clarinetista residente. Mais uma vez se apresenta como solista com a Orquestra Sinfônica da Ufba. Em 2009 participa da gravação do disco de música contemporânea OCA (Oficina de Composição Agora).
Passou uma temporada de dois anos na Espanha, estudando e participando de grupos de Jazz e Música Brasileira, se apresentando em diversos países da Europa. Retorna ao Brasil em 2011, retoma seu trabalho musical ingressando no renomado grupo de choro Os Ingênuos e participando de gravações e apresentações de artistas como: Armandinho Macedo, Jurandir Santana, Gabriel Grossi, entre outros.
Forma também seu próprio grupo instrumental. Em julho de 2012 se apresenta no Teatro Castro Alves como solista convidado pela cantora Rosa Passos, dividindo o palco e posteriormente sendo convidado como músico do seu grupo para a gravação do disco e posterior turnê passando por diversas capitais brasileiras e tocando em festivais de Jazz no Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo e Buenos Aires.
English:
Ivan Sacerdote is a clarinetist from Salvador, Bahia, a practitioner of "choro" (a Brazilian music style somewhat analogous to jazz in the United States).
Clarinetist Ivan Sacerdote began his studies at the age of 12. In 2003, at the age of 16, he started studying with Professor Pedro Robatto at the State School Deputado Manoel Novaes.
In 2005, he enrolled in the Bachelor's degree program in Instrument at the Federal University of Bahia under the guidance of the same professor. He participated in courses and workshops throughout Brazil with renowned teachers such as Paulo Sérgio Santos (RJ), Luis Afonso Montanha (SP), Edmilson Nery (SP), Jorge Montilla (Venezuela), André Kerver (Netherlands), Fernando Silveira (RJ), Ricardo Freire (Brasília), Joel Barbosa (SP), and Jose Luis Estellés (Spain).
He was a soloist with the UFBA Symphony Orchestra in 2006 and the Bahia Symphony Orchestra in 2007. He performed as a guest with the Sergipe Orchestra, the USP Chamber Orchestra, and the Bahia Symphony Orchestra. In the same year, he was awarded at the Young Soloists Competition of the Brasília Winter Festival, with a solo recital prize at the Villa Lobos Hall.
He worked in the NEOJIBA Project (State Centers for Youth and Children Orchestras of Bahia) as a founding monitor and section leader. In 2008, he was a clarinetist at the VI ENCUN (National Meeting of University Composers) as a resident clarinetist. Once again, he performed as a soloist with the UFBA Symphony Orchestra. In 2009, he participated in the recording of the contemporary music album OCA (Composition Workshop Now).
He spent two years in Spain studying and participating in Jazz and Brazilian Music groups, performing in various European countries. He returned to Brazil in 2011, resuming his musical work by joining the renowned choro group Os Ingênuos and participating in recordings and performances with artists such as Armandinho Macedo, Jurandir Santana, Gabriel Grossi, among others.
He also formed his own instrumental group. In July 2012, he performed at the Teatro Castro Alves as a guest soloist for singer Rosa Passos, sharing the stage and later being invited as a musician for her group's album recording and subsequent tour, visiting various Brazilian capitals and playing at Jazz festivals in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires.
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay. They paid.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).