$20 Cover ($10 Students) Advance Tickets / Start 9pm / Doors 7:45pm / Seated Show
Please join us for an exciting Brazilian Choro performance with this amazing musician Ian Coury and guests!
Mandolinist Ian Coury (born in Brasilia, 2/4/2002) began his musical journey at the age of seven, learning to play drums, guitar, and the Brazilian ukelele-like instrument known as the cavaquinho. After an encounter with the music of the great mandolinist Armandinho Macedo, that instrument—known in Brazil as the bandolim—became his great love. Encouraged by Macedo, his teacher Marcelo Lima at the Raphael Rabello School of Choro, and the master mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda, Coury began to hone his art. By 11, he was sharing the stage with de Holanda, and at 12 performed with Macedo and had a solo show at the renowned Clube do Choro in his home city of Brasilia. At 13 he switched from the 8-string to the 10-string bandolim that de Holanda favors, and continued to pursue his studies in the Brazilian genre known as choro, a style originating in the 19th century that combines European and African influences.
It’s not surprising, then, that Coury’s attraction to choro—a virtuosic music that lends itself to improvisation—led him to Boston’s Berklee College of Music, where he attended a summer program and is now a first-year student. He has appeared in magazines dedicated to choro music, participated in international festivals and conferences, and shared the stage with world renowned Latin American jazz musicians like Paquito D’Rivera, Claudio Roditi, and Toninho Horta, in addition to his choro mentors. Indeed, at 19, Coury is already far along on what his teacher Marcelo Lima called his “brilliant path,” one that is allowing him to share his phenomenal talent and the great joy he takes in bringing Brazilian instrumental music to all.
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