Artist: Vittor Santos
Vittor Santos is a composer, arranger, trombonist, and music producer.
Self-taught, he joined at the age of 11 in the band of Clube Musical Euterpe (founded in 1901 and existing today). At the time, the band was directed by Alberto de Araújo Lopes. At age of 14, he performed in a ballroom dance ensemble. At 16, he had his first experience as a recording studio arranger. Since then, he has been working as an instrumentalist, soloist, arranger or producer, cooperating with several artists of the Brazilian music scene. After experiencing the intricacies of harmony as an autodidact (since, at the age of 13, he had studied the subject in the books of Paulo Silva, presented by Ronaldo Camarotta, and Maria Luisa Mattos Priolli), he learned concepts, language and application of the practice of harmonization with Ian Guest in 1985.
He led the Vittor Santos Orchestra (1985-1992), In Concert (1993-1994) and Vittor Santos Orchestra (1998-2000). The latter participated in the Free Jazz Festival in 1999 and had great instrumentalists from the Rio scene.
In 1986, he released his first album, Essas Brasileiras, with the Vittor Santos Orchestra, by Chantecler/ Continental. In 1987, with the same group, came Um Toque Tropical, by the same label. In 1994, Trombone, by Leblon Records. In 1997, still on Leblon Records, he released Sem Compromisso, a fixed quintet. In 2005, together with the group Conexão Rio, he published the CD Você Só Dança com Ele, by the MP,B label, in which he visits 12 songs by the composer Chico Buarque. Already in 2006, the CD Renovando as Considerações, in partnership with the labels Biscoito Fino and Brasilianos in Brazil.
TtaT album was also released in the United States under the title Renewed Impressions, with the label Adventure Music. In 2014, he publishes the CD Co(n)vivências, in which he prioritizes his own compositions and those of composers of diverse convivialities. In Co(n)vivências, he had a fixed quintet on eight of the nine tracks. In partnership with Simon Khoury, he released two albums: Reflexos, also in 2014, and Versatile, in 2018.
He has been working as a teacher throughout his career, specifically in the areas of harmonization and arrangement, as well as in seasonal courses throughout the country, such as the I Brazilian Seminar of Instrumental Music, CIVEBRA, the Music Workshop of Curitiba, the Music Festival of Londrina, among others.
He acts as an arranger in several projects, such as "Som Brasil: Homenagem a Vinicius de Moraes" in 1993, "Ação Cidadania - Brasil 500" in 1998, "Alegria", of the Orquestra do Estado de Mato Grosso, which had as soloist Hamilton de Holanda in 2015, "Aquarelas" with the guitarist and composer Carioca Freitas, in 2017, among others.
He chaired the Jury Committee, which included, among others, Márcio Bahia, from the XV BDMG Cultural Festival, in May 2015.
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Vittor Santos & Grupo - Na Glória (Raul de Barros & Ary Santos)
Vittor Santos : Videos
Partida (J. C. Cochlar) João Carlos Cochlar part. Vittor Santos