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Vitor Pereira

Vitor Pereira was in Porto (Portugal), where he started studying classical music graduating in

classical guitar in 2003.

Vitor Pereira was born in Porto/Portugal where he studied classical music and started developing an interest for jazz.

He participated in several jazz seminars and private lessons in Europe with musicians such as Pat Metheny, Jonathan Kreisberg, Gilad Hekselman or Aaron Goldberg and in 2004 moved to London to study jazz performance at Middlesex University.

Since then, living in London he’s been an active name in the local and European jazz scenes performing with Asaf Sirkis, Marc Demuth, Binker Golding, Andre Canniere, etc...

With his quintet he published three albums of original music. Doors in 2012, New World in 2016 and Somewhere in the middle in 2018.

His music received praise and positive attention by the press, radio and jazz media and counts memorable performances in venues and festivals all around Portugal and the UK.

Recently inspired by a global pandemic he turned his interest to film music. Has already scored a number of short indie films and his work for film will certainly see a big increase in the near future.

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Vitor Pereira Quintet: Jung

Read "Jung" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Vitor Pereira is a guitarist from Portugal who is currently part of the London jazz scene. He has released four albums with his quintet, the latest inspired by the teachings of psychiatrist Carl Jung. The track titles on the album all come from Jung's terminology but no knowledge of his theories is required to enjoy the subtle energy of this rock- flavored jazz set. In this group, Pereira's guitar often acts as a nimble middle layer between the ...

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Vitor Pereira: Electric Chamber

Read "Electric Chamber" reviewed by Chris May


Vitor Pereira is a Portugese guitarist and composer who moved to London in 2004. He was subsequently associated with the city's F-IRE collective and label, which in 2011 released his debut album, Doors, made with a quintet. Pereira's fourth quintet album, Jung, was recorded in April 2021 and is due for release in early October 2022. More about it in a moment. Also recorded in April 2021, and due for release alongside Jung, is the debut EP ...

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Vitor Pereira Quintet: New World

Read "Vitor Pereira Quintet: New World" reviewed by Phil Barnes


Vitor Pereira reveals in the sleeve notes that the inspiration for this collection was the fear that our world had reached a tipping point “where an increasingly globalised economic system powered by unscrupulous profit orientated multinational corporations is on the verge of collapse." It's a plea for a new, fairer, world where wealth is not concentrated in the hands of a self-appointed, entitled, elite who dictate societal outcomes without contributing their share through, among other things, taxation. So ...

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Vitor Pereira Quintet: New World

Read "New World" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


New World is the second album from this quintet, led by the London-based Portuguese guitarist and composer Vitor Pereira. Like the band's 2012 debut, Doors, the music reflects the many influences which Pereira has learnt from but New World sees his work move a step further, his voice as a writer and instrumentalist developing a more distinctive sound. The quintet has undergone a transformation since that debut album--the instrumentation remains unchanged but Pereira and altoist Chris Williams (from ...

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Vitor Pereira Quintet: New World

Read "New World" reviewed by Roger Farbey


This is Portugal-born, now London-based Vitor Pereira's second album for the F-IRE label which again features alto saxophonist Chris Williams, already renowned in the UK for his stellar work with Led Bib and Let Spin. It takes just a few plays but once you “get it," the albums starts to fall into place as something quite remarkable. The chief asset of this quintet is the employment of the two saxophones, playing the ensemble passages alternatively in unison or harmony. This ...

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Vitor Pereira Quintet: Doors

Read "Doors" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Doors makes for an ambitious leader debut for guitarist Vitor Pereira, who describes a wide canvas of styles, each interpreted with an avid sense of accomplishment. Born in Porto, Portugal, Pereira first studied and played classical music, moving to London in 2004 and getting his degree in jazz. From then on he established himself on the London jazz scene leading various bands and playing with well known figures that count trumpeter Dave Smith and bassist Will Collier among ...

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Vitor Pereira Quintet: Doors

Read "Doors" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Music produced by London's F-IRE Collective is almost guaranteed to be intriguing and innovative. Doors, the debut from Portuguese guitarist Vitor Pereira's Quintet, is a worthy addition to the Collective's output. The quintet contains some of the UK's finest young players, including alto saxophonist Chris Williams, from Led Bib, and drummer Eddie Hick, from Gilad Atzmon's Orient House Ensemble. Pereira--who composed all of the tunes--favors a pure, warm guitar tone but isn't averse to some occasional heavier chordal playing.

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“Pereira and his cohort have created a truly distinctive record that isn’t quite like anything else on the scene currently” Eddie Myer – JazzViews

“The music is contemporary, it’s for today … the musical manifesto is superb” Lance Liddle – Bebop Spoken Here

“this is an album that impresses on all sorts of levels” Erminia Yardley – Jazz in Europe

“hard-hitting contemporary jazz-rock flavour in line with Pereira’s fine politically motivated compositions” Selwyn Harris – Jazzwise

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Jung

Self Produced
2022

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Electric Chamber

Self Produced
2022

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Somewhere in the...

Self Produced
2018

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New World

F-IRE Records
2016

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Vitor Pereira...

F-IRE Records
2016

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Doors

F-IRE Records
2012

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Age of Austerity

From: New World
By Vitor Pereira

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