New Piano Music in 2020!
Performances of new piano music in February and April - see dates for details
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Ronan Guilfoyle presents Tudo Bem! - a celebration of the music of Brazil Aleka Potings - vocals Chris Guilfoyle - guitar Leopoldo Osio - piano Ronan Guilfoyle - bass Andre Antunes - drums
The music of Brazil is rich, melodic and above all one of the most groove-laden musics on the planet. Blessed with a long tradition of great composers and songwriters, and a vast range of regional styles, the music has been hugely influential, moving far beyond its own borders to find a place in so many other musical traditions, including jazz and popular music.
Brazilian music has been a passion of bassist and composer Ronan Guilfoyle for many years, and in this group he has assembled some of the finest players in the jazz and Brazilian idioms to play classic Brazilian pieces, known and loved the world over. Outside Brazil, people often think of Brazilian music as being confined to Bossa Nova, but this is only one small part of the huge tradition of Brazilian music and Tudo Bem! explores many of these styles as well as many of Brazil’s greatest composers. Expect Baions, Forros, Partido Altos, Sambas, Xaxados and more, and music by Toninho Horta, Caetano Veloso, Joao Bosco, Chico Pinheiro, Egberto Gismonti, Hermeto Pascoal, Maria Rita and Joyce. Above all expect the joyous, infectious rhythms and grooves of Brazil played with an authentic feel ,and a celebration of one of the world’s great music traditions.
New Piano Music
Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square, Dublin, Dublin
Svetlana Rudenko - piano Michael Buckley - saxophone Ronan Guilfoyle - bass A programme of composed and improvised pieces in the lovely surroundings of the Hugh Lane Gallery. The concert will feature the premiere performance of my new piano composition, 'Short (&) Suite for Piano', by the great Ukrainian classical pianist Svetlana Rudenko, and I'll also be joined by my long standing colleague Micheal Buckley on saxophones.
Free!
Dave Liebman - saxophones Mike Nielsen - guitar Ronan Guilfoyle - bass Conor Guilfoyle - drums
A three-set a night recreation of a typical 1060s New York jazz club gig, featuring the legendary Dave Liebman on saxophone with his long time Irish collaborators the Guilfoyle/Nielsen Trio
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At Nostrand Subway station in Brooklyn
Teaching at the International Rhythm Studies Association conference
My new bass!!
Playing my new bass!
With Rudresh Mahanthappa in Brooklyn
With Lindsey Horner in Woodstock
With (left to right) Carlos Ezequiel, Pekka Pylkkanen and George Constrafouris in Hong Kong
With the great guitarist Nguyen Le after our duo concert in Paris
With two of Europe's greatest jazz musicians the drummer Eric Ineke (left) and the saxophonist John
With the great pianist George Contrafouris in Japan
My custom built acoustic bass guitar
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(from left) Mike Nielsen, Michael Buckley, Lieb and myself playing recently at a great gig in Dublin
And relaxing afterwards............
Myself and good friends and colleagues Julian Arguelles and Izumi Kimura who had just given the Dubl
Dave Liebman shows Mike how he wants triple slash polychords played on the guitar - much to the bemu
Lieb also has some advice for Conor on how he wants the drums played!
Myself, Lieb, Ralph Peterson, and Greek saxophonist Dimitrious Vassilakis contemplate the ages at th
Taken in 2002 in Toronto at a recording session with Tanya Kalmanovitch's 'Hut Five" featuring Tanya
The master Mridangam player and founder of the Karnataka College of Percussion, T.A.S. Mani - you c
The Tommy Halferty Trio - with my longtime friend and colleague Tommy Halferty on guitar and my brot
A publicity photo (courtesy of IMC Artists) of MSG with Rudresh Mahanthappa and Chander Sardjoe - yo
Christy Doran, Isa Wiss, Sean Carpio and myself - the group 'Beginning To End' with music based on t
Microclimate - my trio with Joe O Callaghan and Sean Carpio - you can hear a preview track from the
John Abercrombie (far left), my brother Conor (2nd left), myself and the Callino String Quartet afte
Mike Nielsen, my brother Conor and myself - the rhythmically groundbreaking guitar trio
A more recent photo of the trio - taken in 2002 at JJ Smyths
With Jim Black (left) and Julian Arguelles (right) - a great trio that I've recorded and toured with
In Copenhagen - Greg Burk, RG, Pekka Pylkkanen, Carlos Ezequiel