Choro Noho 2024
Saturday, June 22nd, 7:30
Helen Hills Hills Chapel,
123-125 Elm Street Smith College
Northampton, MA 01063
$30 advance / $35 day-of-show
Welcome, and thanks for your interest in Choro Noho 2024, brought to you by Choro Camp New England!
If you are new to choro, you are in for a treat. The genre began to take shape in mid-19th century Rio de Janeiro, where the music of the Portuguese court met that of Afro-Brazilians. Here in the US, a similar process gave us first ragtime, then jazz, and just as these genres are seen as prototypically “American”, so too is choro recognized as uniquely, exquisitely Brazilian.
Every year, Choro Camp New England brings chorões (that is, people who play choro) to the campus of Smith College for a week of study and jamming with masters of the genre. This concert will feature all the artists teaching at Choro Camp this year and serve as our grand finale.
You can learn more about Choro Noho’s performers on the Artists page of this website, or simply scroll through some of the videos below. These artists have never come together in one place before — and likely never will again! So come treat yourself to a one-time-only performance of Brazilian music at its best.
PERFORMERS
Anat Cohen (clarinet) joins us for the second time this year. Here she is with Marcello Gonçalvez (7-string guitar) in one of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts.
Guitar virtuoso João Camarero joins us this year from São Paulo, Brazil. While playing in a choro ensemble, João typically plays 7-string guitar. But just to give you an idea of his range, here he is playing solo on 6-string.
Flutist Morgana Moreno also joins us from São Paulo for the first time this year. Here she performs one of her own compositions, Baião:
Ian Coury (bandolim), Fabio Oliveira (pandeiro), Fernanda Silveira (cavaquinho) and Cesar Garabini (7-string guitar) have all taught and performed at Choro camp before and we~re happy to have them back. Here they are in performance at Rowan University, where Fabio is Director of Percussion Studies.
And here’s another take from Ian Coury, this time with cellist Catherine Bent, who will work with bowed stringed instrument players at Choro Camp 2024:
Pianist / Accordionist Rob Curto joins us for the first time this year:
Finally, Clarice Cast, here joined by two other powerhouse Brazilian percussionists. In this video, all three are playing pandeiro, one of the instruments traditionally used in a choro ensemble.