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EDU LOBO
Dear Marcos, .... you are a great guitar player. Beautiful and elegant playing. So beautiful arrangement for Arrastão. Your musicians play very well. Beautiful arrangements, unexpected and full of harmonic knowledge. ... My sincere congratulations.
ULISSES ROCHA
“… a performer and composer with sensibility, accuracy and delicacy. Besides the abilities he has as a producer, Marcos Davi comes to make a name for himself in the instrumental music world.”
ROBERTO MENESCAL
“...You play very well, Davi! A very clean sound, and so well played. The first track ( Três Sóis, Três Luas) is so beautiful. I think your Cd is all beautiful. I`ve been listening to it in my car. Congratulations!"
SID JACOBS - Guitar Institute of Technology, L.A., California
“…Your CD sounds great. I love the compositions and your playing. You are a very talented musician. I hope we get the chance to get together sometime in the future. It would be fun to find some common musical ground and play..."
ZEZO RIBEIRO
“...I really liked it! Congratulations! A very good and sophisticated technique and harmony. A so defined composition style as well. …So beautiful! It touched me so much. I’m very happy. Congratulations and keep up the good work! "
LUIS BÍSSIGO - Zero Hora – Brazilian News
“The album “Criação” is a promise of a very important Brazilian composer and instrumentalist…”
Click here to listen Marcos Davi Lisboa
BIO
Marcos Davi Lisboa is a Brazilian jazz guitarist performer and composer.
His music brings the guitar's natural connection to classical music, jazz, choro, samba and many other genres.
As an instrumentalist, he is influenced by Egberto Gismonti, Baden Powell, Raphael Rabello, Ralph Towner, Ulisses Rocha and Cesar Camargo Mariano.
His main teachers were James Liberato (Brazil), Eduardo Castañera (Argentina), Ulisses Rocha (Brazil) and Torsten Klentze (Germany).
As a composer, he is influenced by Johan Sebastian Bach, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Heitor Villa-lobos, Ira Gershwin, Claude Debussy and Ernesto Nazareth.
Nominated for the 2006 Açorianos Music Award for his CD CASA III.
His work was selected by ITAÚ CULTURAL – Rumos Música, one of the most important institution for culture in Brazil.
He has performed in Uruguay, Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Luxembourg, Austria and the Netherlands.
At the invitation of the CCRD Center Culturel Régional de Delémont, he spent a long period in Switzerland, playing in solo and quartet presentations in several cities in the country, such as Delemont, Basel, Listal, Geneva, Freiburg and Lausanne. Also, at the invitation of Fnac Switzerland, he performed solo concerts in all the network's units, working on the launch of his book "Composições Para Violão Brasileiro - Samba, Choro, Valsa e Outra Invenções".
In France, in addition to solo performances, he worked and recorded with French musicians, where he also collaborated with music for theater.
In Munich, Germany, he worked as an instructor of harmony, repertoire and guitar technique, standing out for using Brazilian music as methodology.
He was also a professor at EM&T – School of Music and Technology – SP, under the direction of Ulisses Rocha and Mozart Mello.
He has already worked with Adriana Deffenti, Adriana Valejo, Alessandro Penezzi, Alex Rossi (Holland), Carlos Goméz (Uruguay), Carol Andrade, Cau Karam, Cezar Audi, Claudio Guida Machado, Christiano Rocha, Christian McCarty, Cristiano Petagna, Danny Calixto, Dieter Buchwalder (Switzerland), Diogo Carvalho, Edu Letti, Euclides Marques, Emilio Mendonça, Evandro Gracelli, Fábio Santini, Fábio Zaganin, Florencia Lanzaro (Uruguay), Florian Abt (Switzerland), Gabriela Morgare (Uruguay), Guy Potier (France), James Liberato, Luizinho Santos, Lisette Spinller (Switzerland), Lucie Etiene (France), Márcio Celli, Márcio Tubino, Michael Stultz (Switzerland), Mico Louruz (Belgium), Mozart Mello, Nuno Prestes, Roger Jannotta (Germany/USA), Rui Barossi, Torsten Klentz (Germany), Ulisses Rocha, Zezo Ribeiro, Vinícius Correa, Vlad Rocha, Vivi Keller, Wanderson Bersani, and so many other artists.
