Biography

Quartabê's identity was built upon the metaphor of the classroom: the group sees itself as a school class, which chooses its own teachers from among great masters of Brazilian music. Assuming that the learning and creative processes have in common experimentation and play, the quartet formed by Joana Queiroz (clarinet, bass clarinet), Maria Beraldo (clarinet, bass clarinet), Mariá Portugal (drums) and Chicão (keyboard) is characterized by its bold versions coupled with irreverent performance. In addition to its sound, marked by the group's various music references - from the São Paulo avant-garde movement to the free improvisation, passing through pop and electronic music - Quartabê also stands out for the formation composed mostly of women who, besides instrumentalists are also arrangers, composers, singers and improvisers - which is unusual in Brazil and it has high political relevance in a music scene where positions of creation and power are still held disproportionately by men. The band started its studies by recording a first album about the work of maestro Moacir Santos , Lição #1: Moacir (2015). After performing this show in Brazil and Europe, the group took a break to record Depê (2017), also dedicated to the oeuvre of Santos. In 2018 Quartabê has begun another project, starting new studies: Lição #2: Dorival, about the great brazilian singer-songwriter Dorival Caymmi, which will be released by the label Natura Musical and RISCO. <br>