Samuel Quinto FRSA
Samuel Quinto Feitosa, FRSA (born September 5, 1973) is a Brazilian pianist of jazz, pop, gospel, and classical music, as well a music producer, composer, arranger, educator, and writer who has lived in Portugal since 2004. Quinto grew up in Salvador, where he developed his art mainly on piano.
Samuel Quinto was born in Belém, Pará, but grew up in Salvador, Bahia. From the age of seven, he developed his musical talent by virtue of contact with the piano through the gospel, accompanied Baptist Church who attended during childhood with his family in Salvador. Then Samuel took the first steps on piano in the family home, always without accompanying teachers, and developed his piano skills learning also, as an autodidact, harmony, reading and writing music and orchestration, musical composition, arranging for the church choir, which starts playing as a pianist at age 12.
In Europe
Samuel Quinto published his first CD Latin Jazz Thrill in 2007, in Portugal, with trio formation (Bass, Piano and Drums), which forms the core of his repertoire at various festivals and concerts during the years 2007 and 2008 in Portugal, and during his 2008 tour in which shows in cities like Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne, Heilbronn, Liege and Limoges; plus a special concert held in Salvador in partnership with the Catholic University of Salvador in June 2008. His compositions are used at the University of Porto (ESMAE) in undergraduate degree in Jazz, as study material in training Jazz students.
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December 17, 2010
Latin Jazz Conversations: Samuel Quinto (Part 3)
December 11, 2010
Latin Jazz Conversations: Samuel Quinto (Part 2)
December 10, 2010
Latin Jazz Conversations: Samuel Quinto (Part 1)
July 27, 2009
The Latin Jazz Corner Reviews Samuel Quinto Trio's "Salsa N Jazz"
“The Emergence Of A New Piano Stylist”. - Chip Boaz, The Latin Jazz Corner, USA.
“On Salsa’ N Jazz he plays with primal hypnotic rhythm” – Latin Jazz Network, Canada.
“Samuel Quinto conquistou a Europa com o seu Jazz Latino” – Hugo Diaz Milano, Correo del Avila, Venezuela.
“A sua técnica e brilhantes performances não as foi buscar à Escola, mas antes à fonte incansável e plena de energia que traz dentro de si” – Pedro Ferreira, Escola Jazz ao Norte, Portugal.
“É inacreditável a forma acrobática que Quinto utilizou para manipular o sensível teclado e a excelente forma como passou das partes mais fortes, para as mais melodiosas e suaves, notando-se no seu extenso repertório toda a sua musicalidade e aptidão para excelentes improvisações” – Monika Koehler, Heilbronner Stimme, Germany.
“Salvador se rende ao Jazz de Samuel Quinto” – Itapoan on line, Brasil.
“ (…) mais do que latino, mais do que ritmo, é um impressionante trio de Jazz Latino com alta qualidade e técnica surpreendente” – Stell Werk, Germany.
“Brilho, virtuosismo e soberbos arranjos do pianista” - Jacques Pelzer Jazz Club, Belgium.
“Samuel Quinto é um pianista de grandes recursos expressivos” – Prof
Primary Instrument
Piano
Location
Sao Paulo
Willing to teach
Advanced only
Credentials/Background
Samuel Quinto, FRSA Maestro - Pianist - Productor - Educator - Composer - Writer Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts - UK Member of National Federation of Music Clubs - USA/United Nations Senior Member of Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs - USA Member of International Council for Traditional Music - Unesco/Worldwide Member of American Council of Piano Performers - USA Fritz Dobbert/Kawai Endorsee Author of "Improvising is very easy!"