Augusto Baschera

Formed by guitar, piano, bass, and drums, the Augusto Baschera Quartet is a jazz project that stands out for its innovative language and the strong personality of its members. The quartet features Augusto Baschera on guitar, João Bernardo on piano, Kim Baiunco on bass, and Vini Baschera on drums.

"Travessia" is a creative partnership between Brazilian guitarist Augusto Baschera (Rio Grande do Sul) and Azorean pianist João Bernardo (São Miguel). This project aims to study, recreate, and perform the musical folklore originating from the Azores, also present in the southern region of Brazil. It is sustained by the reworking and adaptation of this music into instrumental music, with a focus on improvised music and jazz.

Released in May 2022, 'Tempos e Lugares' is the second album by the duo Augusto Baschera & João Bernardo. This album results from the recording of a live concert at Teatro Micaelense / São Miguel - Azores. The compositions that make up this recording echo traits explored by the duo on their first album, 'Grey City', which represent and mark the duo's characteristic identity, such as the unison melodies that are guided by an inner voice endowed with lyricism. In this new work, the duo combines its essence with a rhythmic vigor that emphasizes its traditions and influences and at the same time reflects the universality of its music.

Augusto Baschera (guitar/eletric guitar) and Paulo Bernardino (clarinet/bass clarinet) report the immensity of Brazilian daily life in these instruments, sounding like a breath of life that travels through different places and welcomes the nuances that portray in a sonorous way the spirit of this such diverse country.

A creative dive into folkloric traditions, exploring melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic elements, transforming them into new expressions of contemporary music through composition and improvisation.

Concierto de Aranjuez is without a doubt the most emblematic composition in the history of the repertoire written for guitar and orchestra. Written in 1939, it is surely the best-known work of the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo, and due to its success it has given the composer international recognition. This musical work is considered the most performed in the world and, in particular, its second movement, 'adagio', is uniquely popular and has already been performed and reinvented by different formations and genres even today. In 2016, Augusto was a guest soloist of the ESML Symphony Orchestra, in Lisbon-Portugal, for a series of concerts with this work.