Directory

Quartet - String Quartet

Instrumentation

• Marcus Vinicius de Oliveira - Double Bass
• Saulo Roberto Martins - Double Bass
• Joana Izabelle Moura - Double Bass
• Marcelo Nunes Rodrigues - Double Bass

Repertoire

ORIGINALS

Adam Gorb: Do you Remember?

Edmundo Villani-Côrtes: A Dança dos Quatro Mestres

Edmundo Villani-Côrtes: Casamento da Sonia

Ernst Mahle: Quarteto para Contrabaixos

Tony Osborne: The Pink Elephant

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ARRANGEMENTS

Ary Barroso, arr. D. Camargo: Aquarela do Brasil

Black Sabbath, arr. D. Camargo: Bass Sabbath

G. Mahler, arr. B. Paradžik: Symphony No.2, Urllicht

H. Villa-Lobos, arr. N. Bellotto: O Trenzinho do Caipira

Luiz Gonzaga, arr. J. Maciel: Os Baixos de Januário

M. Norman, arr. G. Camargo: 007 - James Bond

Piazzolla: Contrabajeando

Pixinguinha, arr. A. Fernandes: Carinhoso

S. Barber, arr.?: Adagio for Strings

Sweet Child O' Mine, arr. D. Camargo: Sweet Bass O' Mine

Biography

Formed by 4 musicians from Brazil, we are the only Double Bass Quartet in the UK, and we go beyond the traditional way of playing our beautiful instruments. All four members have been students of Jiří Hudec at the Royal Northern College of Music, in Manchester, and over the past few years have also regularly joined the various leading professional orchestras in the UK as section freelancers.

Though we don’t limit ourselves to only performing Brazilian music, our goal is to present our culture to a wider audience in as many different venues and communities as possible. Our vision is to share the unknown and the unheard, exploring the double bass in its extremes, from the very bottom of the bass lines to the lyrical, higher-registers throughout virtuosic and soloistic passages. We are committed to presenting the double bass in a way that you have never seen before.