Friday, August 7, 8 PM (7:30 door): Jane Lenoir, Flutist, and Alessandro Penezzi, Guitar: A Night of Brazilian Music
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Jane Lenoir, flutist, grew up in a family of professional musicians in Tampa, Florida and left at 15 years old to study at Interlochen Arts Academy and later Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. She has a career spanning many different styles of music, from orchestral work, chamber music, jazz, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music and Latin Jazz, to baroque flute. She has performed with the Oakland Symphony, Ballet and Opera, Stockton Symphony, San Jose Symphony, SF Opera, SF Ballet, San Francisco Chamber Music Society and University of California Contemporary Chamber Players. She is principal flute of the Music in the Mountains Orchestra and appears regularly as a soloist at the festival.
She performed “new” music extensively in the 70’s and 80’s, appearing with Port Costa Players, the UC Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, Mills Group for New Music, SF Chamber Music Society, Paul Dresher Ensemble, George Coates Performance Works, and performed the premieres of many works locally, recorded by KPFA and in their archives from that period. She recorded with the Seattle Group for New Music on a recording of the music of Seattle composer Janice Giteck, played the US premiere of Hans Henze’s El Cimarron with John Duykers and David Tannenbaum, for which the ensemble was cited by the LA Times as the “best contemporary performance of the year” for their debut at the LA County Museum of Arts’ Monday Evening Concerts.
For the past 7 years, Jane has been involved with Brazilian music and other Latin flute styles, and was a founding member of the Berkeley Choro Ensemble, and co-director of the Berkeley Festival of Choro at the Freight and Salvage for 5 seasons, a founding member of Primavera Latin Jazz and Matiz Ensemble, whose first album, “Confluencia” came out in April 2014. Other albums include “fluid”--a jazz album with Brad Buethe, John Wiitala and Chris Braun, “Live at Anna’s Jazz Island”, with Calvin Keys, guitar. In 2018, two albums of Brazilian music were produced: Jane Lenoir plays Penezzi, with composer and 7-string guitarist Alessandro Penezzi, São Paulo, Brazil, and The View from Here, with Berkeley Choro Ensemble, featuring the music of contemporary Brazilian composers.. https://www.janelenoir.com/home
Alessandro Penezzi is one of the great virtuosos of Brazilian guitar. By the age of 14, Alessandro had already memorized 400 choros! Today, he is recognized as one of the reference points for choro, and is an active performer and composer, touring regularly in North and South America, Europe, Asia and North Africa.
He has recorded with Dominguinhos, Hermeto Pascoal, Yamandú Costa, Zimbo Trio, Beth Carvalho, Jazz Sinfônica de São Paulo and the London Symphony and his compositions have been recorded by Yamandú Costa, Danilo Brito and Jane Lenoir, among others.
Awards and nominations include Best Instrumental CD and Best Soloist for the album ‘Quebranto’, which was released in partnership with Yamandú Costa in 2017. Brazilian awards and nominations include: Visa MPB Instrumental (2001), Tim de Música Brasileira (2006), Shell de Teatro and Prêmio da Música Brasileira (2006). Here he is with another artist on the Choro Camp faculty this year, Fábio Peron, playing one of his own compositions, “Cordas ao Vento.”