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Choro de Rua was born in 2012 from the desire of spreading Choro (to be pronounced “shoro”) in Italy and Europe, to give everyone the opportunity of appreciating this sophisticated instrumental Brazilian music, good to be played and to be listened to.
Since then, Choro de Rua duo, formed by the Italian flutist Barbara Piperno and the Brazilian 7-string guitarist and mandolinist Marco Ruviaro, has had an intense musical activity trying to disseminate Choro, playing, recording and making researches. The music album Aeroplanando represents one of the fruits of this passionate work.

Barbara Piperno-  flute
Marco Ruviaro-  7-string guitar

Marco Ruviaro, born in 1978 in São Paulo (Brazil), started
studying music at the age of 11. Self-taught mandolinist, he is
graduated in classical guitar at the Universidade Estadual
Paulista. He studied guitar with Paulo Porto Alegre, Sidney
Molina, Giacomo Bartoloni and Luciano Lima. He is professor of
guitar and mandolin. He has several music projects in different
countries: Duo Baguá (Spain), New York Choro Duo (USA),
Regional de Paris (France), Circolo Odeòn, Trio Desvairada and
Choro de Rua (Italy). In 2014 was released his sixth album,
“Acabou o sossego…“, the first exclusively dedicated to his own
compositions. Guest of many international Choro festivals and
events, he is considered a virtuoso exponent of the genre.

Barbara Piperno, born in 1980 in Italy, graduated in flute at
Conservatorio Gioachino Rossini in 1996. Besides the activity as
a classical musician, she experimented other musical genres and
discovered the voice as an additional instrument to express
herself. Since 2011, she has been dedicating to Brazilian
popular music, in particular to Choro. She recorded several
albums and performed in Italy and abroad. She’s collaborating
with different groups, including Ban Ensemble, Choro de Rua,
Circolo Odeon and The BeatLess Chamber Orchestra.

Guests:

Sylvain Boisvert – flûtes traversières
Installé en Belgique en 2006 pour étudier la scénographie (ENS La Cambre), il a étudié la musique classique en France. Il travaille aussi l'improvisation, avec la danse, joue de la musique contemporaine (Orchestre Français de Flûtes), avec différentes flûtes traversières, du piccolo à l'octobasse.

Falk Schrauwen - percussions
Percussionniste bruxellois. Ayant déjà plusieurs fois séjourné au Brésil, il s'intéresse particulièrement à la percussion brésilienne et joue dans plusieurs groupes tels que Choros Limoneros (musique Choro brésilien) Who Cat (croisement pop, jazz et dans le monde) Buyakano (croisement batucada brésilienne et pop), Los Paja Brava (musique Cumbia )…

marcoruviaro.com
barbarapiperno.com

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What is Choro?

Around 1870, popular music players in Rio de Janeiro — that was
the economic and cultural capital of Brazil in those years — started
to perform the repertoire of European dances in vogue amid the
aristocracy of XIX century (like waltz, scottish and polka) in a
“brazilerized” form, with strong influence of African origin’s
rhythms. Thus CHORO was born!
Since then, the musical universe of Choro has always embraced
different rhythms and styles, including polka, waltz, baião, frevo,
maxixe and tango brasileiro, and had a decisive influence on the
development of samba and bossa-nova.
CHORO is the most important Brazilian instrumental music.
CHORO is a form of playing.
CHORO is a form of living and sharing music with joy and creativity.
Most of the Brazilian composers has dealt and still deals with
Choro, from Villa-Lobos to Nazareth, from Tom Jobim to
Gismonti, from Chico Buarque to Guinga, and several
generations of musicians have always contribute to the
development and dissemination of Choro with a lot of love and
passion for this music. Thanks to all this, Choro has become the
most important Brazilian instrumental music.

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