Júlio Lemos via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Júlio Lemos
- City: San Francisco, California
- Country: United States
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Julio Lemos studied with renowned musicians such as Guinga, Marcos Tardelli,Marco Pereira, Alencar 7 Cordas, Rogério Caetano, Nelson Faria, Henrique Pinto, and Paulo Belinatti. He holds graduation and master degrees in classical guitar from the Federal University of Goias, UFG, guided by Dr. Werner Aguiar.
He is an effective professor of music at UFG, Universidade Federal de Goiás, and performs solo recitals and with several music groups. Julio has also performed in Brazil and abroad featuring concerts in Portugal, Spain, French, Germany, and the United States and recently in China. His repertoire ranges the works of highlighted composers such as Villa Lobos, Radames Ganattali, Garoto, Guinga, Baden Powel, Astor Piazzolla, Marco Pereira, and his own songs.
In Parallel of the activities as a solo performer, he has been playing since 2006 as a sideman with groups and singers of traditional Brazilian popular genres such as Choro, Samba and Bossa Nova. He also created the choro ensemble of the UFG and performed in several academics events and associated projects of UFG.
Integrates the group Brasil in Trio together with the musicians Diego Amaral and Everton Luiz, that released its first CD in 2014. The Trio establishes focus in several genres of the Brazilian contemporary instrumental music such as Choro, Baião, Maracatu, Bossa Nova and Samba. Launched in 2019 his second album Brasil in Trio Interpreta Jarbas Cavendish, with original work done by Jarbas Cavendish. Available online on Spotify and & YouTube.
Julio is also a coordinator and music arranger of the followings associated projects of UFG: Orchestra of Guitars of UFG, Núcleo de Choro, and Brasil in Trio.
Holds a master degree from UFG, actually is studying the doctor degree at UFRJ, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, guided by Dr. Marcia Taborda. And now also living at San Francisco, doing part of his doctor degree at San Francisco State University, with Dr. John Calloway as his advisor.
He also offered workshops abroad Brazil of Brazilian guitar classes of seven string guitar, in choro and samba style, in Argentina, and around Europe, Madrid at Spain and Evora at Portugal. He also work as a researcher and permanent teacher at Universidade Federal de Goias. He has been titular Judge in the official carnival of São Paulo since 2016.
Recorded his first DVD with the group Brasil in Trio in 2016 with the special guests Marco Pereira (guitar) and Gabriel Grossi (Harmônica) and recorded the first CD with his own songs, called Julio Lemos Brasil Acústico.
In July of 2019 launched his first CD and DVD titled “Julio Lemos Brasil Acústico”, with his original songs and others from Ian Faquini, Marco Pereira, Jean Charnaux and Euripedes Fontenelle. This work is available online on YouTube and Spotify.
Actually doing some new partnerships with some of the greatest musicians at Bay Area like, Ian Faquini, Rebecca Kleiman, Diana Strong, Masha Campagne, Ricardo Peixoto, Liza Silva.
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Julio Lemos iniciou suas atividades profissionais na música aos 13 anos de idade. Concluiu o curso de graduação em música pela Universidade Federal de Goiás no ano de 2008, com um trabalho de conclusão de curso (TCC), sobre as interpretações do violão de 6 cordas presente nas gravações das músicas de Adoniram Barbosa com o grupo Demônios da Garoa. Em 2012 concluiu sua pós graduação, Mestrado em Performance Musical, também na UFG, em que pesquisou sobre o estilo composicional do violonista Marco Pereira (SP), a partir da sua obra intitulada “Samba Urbano”.
Paralelamente a sua atuação de performer no campo da música popular e erudita, atua também como pesquisador publicando artigos em congressos de música voltados à performance musical e composição, merecendo destaque as publicações realizadas na ANPPOM (Associação Nacional de Pós graduação e Pesquisa em Música), nos anos de 2011 e 2013 e no Simpósio de Musicologia da UFG em 2016.
Teve aulas com importantes violonistas do cenário musical brasileiro, tais como: Paulo Belinati, Werner Aguiar, Marco Pereira, Pedro Martelli, Paulo Porto Alegre, Marcus Tardelli, Guinga, Alencar 7 Cordas, Nelson Faria e Rogério Caetano. Apresenta trabalho como violonista solo e como acompanhador ao violão de 7 cordas em grupos de choro e samba, é também integrante do grupo de música instrumentalBrasil in Trio(www.brasilintrio.com) e Quarteto Pixinga. Com os quais tem dois discos gravados, em 2014 o disco Brasil in Trio interpreta Alessandro Branco, com a participação especial de Gabriel Grossi (RJ) e Marco Pereira (SP), que foi indicado ao Prêmio da Música Brasileira em 2015. E em 2016 o disco Quarteto Pixinga interpreta Clássicos do Choro com crítica de Luciana Rabelo. Possui um duo de violão e harmônica com Gabriel Grossi (RJ), e duo de violão e piano com Everson Bastos (MG) e Pedro Barros (RJ).
Julio Lemos já ministrou workshops e minicursos como professor convidado em escolas de e festivais de música: em 2015 no Conservatório de música Basileu França, e IFG em Goiânia, em 2014 na escola de música Siete Octavos, na Argentina em Buenos Aires, na Universidade de Évora em Portugal em 2016, em Madri no departamento de artes da Universidade Rei Juan Carlos (TAI). Em 2014 foi professor convidado junto ao Quarteto Pixinga para ministrar minicurso de prática de Choro no Festival de Música no Festival de Música de Ponta Grossa (PR). Em 2015 participou do Festival de música Brasileira Brazil Camp, nos Estados Unidos, na Califórnia.
Já apresentou concertos solo ou com o grupo Brasil in Trio nos países: Argentina, Chile, Estados Unidos, Portugal, França, Espanha e Suíça e China. Julio Lemos é professor efetivo de música da Universidade Federal de Goiás desde 2010. Atua no campo da didática da performance em música, no qual leciona aulas de instrumento-violão em conjunto, harmonia e ritmos brasileiros aplicados ao violão, e prática em conjunto de choro. É coordenador artístico, e arranjador da Orquestra de Violões Euripedes Fontenelleda EMAC-UFG, (Escola de Música e Artes Cênicas da UFG), projeto de extensão da universidade. É também coordenador do projeto de extensão e pesquisa intitulado Núcleo de Choro da UFG.
Foi convidado e atuou como jurado titular na categoria Samba de Enredo no carnaval oficial da cidade de São Paulo no anos de 2017 e 2018 no Sambódromo do Anhembi produzido pela LIGA- SP.
Está cursando o doutorado em Processos criativos e práticas interpretativas na UFRJ, sobre orientação de Marcia Taborda(RJ) na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Iniciou o seu doutorado sanduíche em 2019 em São Francisco na California, na San Francisco State University sobre supervisão de John Calloway.
Lançou recentemente seu CD e DVD intitulado: Julio Lemos – Brasil Acústico, com composições próprias e de outros compositores contemporâneos, Jean Charnaux, (RJ) e Ian Faquini (USA), e o segundo disco do grupo Brasil in Trio, com composições do maestro e compositor Jarbas Cavendish (PE).
Atualmente fazendo novas parcerias com grandes músicos da bay area como: Ian Faquini, Rebecca Kleiman, Diana Strong, Masha Campagne, Ricardo Peixoto, Liza Silva.
Contact Information
- Email: julioczar10@gmail.com
- Telephone: +1 (415) 818 7192
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Instagram: julio_lemos
- ▶ Website: http://www.juliolemos.net
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/juliolemos
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UC9Drls7-8vkZx7iMsW21XUA
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/1ZYh4piTu8LQuvhXFo3RNK
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/5ItaFVNKQBqFmJmks2PTSe
My Instruction
- Lessons/Workshops: Private Lessons one by one or via skype. Contact via email above.
- Instruction: http://www.hotmart.com/product/aprenda-tocar-violao-4/J14961247X
Clips (more may be added)
The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging through New Orleans and Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... and Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
