Emiliano Sampaio Jazz Symphonic Orchestra - 10) Black

Описание: We Have a Dream
Emiliano Sampaio Jazz Symphonic Orchestra

I´m so excited to release this album which is the realization of a dream that I’ve had since I was in my teenage years…writing orchestral music. This music is a result of the four years of doctoral artistic research I did at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.

I investigated how one can establish communication between jazz and classical musicians by encouraging them to collaborate more in the large ensemble context. That investigation led my artistic work to examine, explore, and question the hierarchy that is still very present and has historically been reproduced in large jazz ensembles. As Christopher Small points out in his book Musicking, the relationships and traditions in making music are a “matter of choices and there is nothing inevitable about the arrangements we make, it is not ordained by nature but is a social arrangement” (1998: 36).

Though all pieces were initially composed and arranged by me, during the rehearsal process the musicians had almost infinite freedom to change, erase, recompose, adapt, and improvise the music to fit their own musicality. In this process, they experienced the feeling of playing in a small jazz band albeit with almost forty musicians… a concept that has been tried in the past by many musicians coming from classical, jazz, and other musical genres to different results.

Our orchestra experience seemed to create new hierarchies between the musicians, composer, conductor, and the written music, in general. It strengthened the cooperation between everyone and opened up new ways for us to think about how to make large ensemble music where the barriers between composer, conductor, interpreter, and improviser can be liquid.

I am happily releasing this album after four years of challenges and discoveries about music, the world, and myself. Musicking in a large ensemble context deals intimately with hierarchy and is a powerful tool to help question the ways in which we relate to each other whether in the musical world or in our daily lives. It brings the possibility for new aesthetic experiences, and more importantly, it can improve the artists’ individual and/or group experiences by changing the relationships with each other. Furthermore, for the world as a whole, this kind of experience can provide a way of existing that is based on trust, collaboration, and serenity. An orchestra playing should be an inspiring example of people working together!

Lastly, I am dedicating this work to my mother, Maria do Carmo Cardoso Sampaio, who was born in a very poor family in Cicero Dantas (in Bahia, Brazil) where she had the dream of learning how to read and write. Surpassing her own dreams, she became a professor and writer. My mother passed away in January 2021 and will always be my biggest inspiration to keep working, composing, performing, and, most importantly, investing my energy in my dreams as she did!

Alessa Records
Live Sound: Ulrich Gladisch. Christian Scheucher, Alexander Zwierzina
Light: Ralf Beyer, Lea Hainzl
Stage: Peter Fischer
Orchestra support: Ursula Fleischhacker, Alexander Wiedenhofer, Bshara Mestrih
Microphoned by Alexander Zwierzina
Recorded by Fabian Spörlein, Leon Merkel
Recording Supervisor: Ulrich Katzenberger
Mixed and mastered by Werner Angerer at Acoustic Art Studios in Vienna, January 2022
Video by Reithofer Media

All music composed and arranged by Emiliano Sampaio & Orchestra

Orchestra

Woodwinds
Heinrich von Kalnein - Flute/Alto Flute/Alto Sax
Jaka Arh - Tenor Sax/Clarinet
Milosh Milojevic - Clarinet
Stas Zhukovskyy - Oboe/Duduk
Gerald Preinfalk - Baritone Sax/Soprano Sax/Bass Clarinet

Brass
Marc Osterer, Jakob Helling - Trumpet
Karl-Heinz Tappler - French Horn
Ádám Ladányi - Trombone
Johannes Oppel - Bass Trombone

Rhythm Section
Sandra Macher - Harp
Tobias Meissl, Florian Pöttler - Percussion
Michael Lagger - Piano
Ivar Krizic - Bass
Luis Oliveira - Drums

String Orchestra
Violine
Andreas Semlitsch, Mikołaj Kostka, Kristina Wasik, Cozy Friedel, Daniel Allison, Anna Tropper, Albin Krieger, Pantea Moshfegh

Viola
Gregor Fussenegger, Jakob Suchentrunk, Álvaro Vallejo Larre, Andreas Trenkwalder

Cello
Sigrid Narowetz, Kristijan Krajnčan, Katja Finsel, Urban Megusar, Eduardo Antiao