itamar_lima@hotmail.com
Salvador, BA Brasil
55-71-9994-4203/9996-9123
Percussionist, Professor
Professional, talented, collaborative musician, performer and teacher with 12 years experience in multiple styles and wide range of instruments. Seeks employment as performer and professor with room for growth and opportunity to continue developing range and skills. Particularly interested in developing repertoire of Cuban, Jazz, and Afro-Jazz rhythms.
| Musical Styles: Popular Brazilian Samba Bossa Nova Forro Candomble Capoiera Folkloric Northeastern |
Instruments: Conga Djembe Timbal Shekere Pandeiro Tambourine Berimbau Surdo (marcação) and others |
Specialized Knowledge: Brazilian Folklore History of Samba Music of NE Brazil Music of Candomble. |
Helpful & Rare Skills: humility patience teaching children intuitive accompaniment sense of humor |
Professor
Escola de Danca da Fundacao Cultural da Bahia, 1997-2004
Itamar has taught private and group classes at FUNCEB in a wide variety of instruments for the past 7 years. FUNCEB recently lost funding for the majority of percussion professors. Because of his skill and good relationship with the school, Itamar continues to provide private instruction at the facility.
Performer
Universidade Federal da Bahia, 1999-2004
Percussion for Afro-Brazilian Dance classes with Roquedelia Santos and Edilueza Santana
Escola de Danca da Fundacao Cultural da Bahia, 1997-2004
FUNCEB, a publicly funded institution founded in 1984, is renowned as home to the best Traditional African Dance percussion professors in the state of Bahia. Itamar has performed percussion for Afro-Brazilian Dance classes with Paquito, Roquedelia Santos, Joselito Santos and Rita Rodrigues
Palmia da Mão (MPB)
Tomate com Laranja (Forró)
Viva Brasil (Afro-Brazilian Dance)
Swing Bahia (Northeastern Popular Dance)
Orchestra Afro-Bahiana (Afro-Brazilian Fusion), 1999-2001
Timbalada/Carlinhos Brown/Tote Giro (Carnaval Samba), 1993-1996
Cultural Foundation of Brazil - School of Dance: FUNCEB, 1997-1999
Itamar studied with Marcus Suzano, pandeiro master and Bira Montero, former percussionist with the internationally-known dance company Dance Brasil (CIA), directed by Gelon Viera. Montero is an expert in Afro-Brasilian percussion and Northeastern Brazilian Culture.
Orchestra Afro-Bahiana, 1995-1997
Itamar worked in conjunction with Emilia Biancard, one of the first female Ethnomusicologists to make waves in Brasil. Biancard formerly worked with the NYC-based all-female percussion group Yabas, and is currently the conductor of the Orchestra Afro-Bahiana, a fusion group mixing African rhythms with other elements of Brazilian music. Itamar also worked on a popular culture project to revive the traditions of Brazilian popular music, along with Bira Monteiro, Eduardo Santos, and Tolette. Together, they conducted research on the blending of popular Brazilian music and African music, and produced an important CD (Omon Engoma) that records the history of popular music in Brazil.
Projeto Pra-Ca-Tum, 1992-1994
Itamar participated in this community project designed by reknowned Bahian musician Carlinhos Brown that gave youth in the area an opportunity to study percussion. Itamar studied for two years under Brown, and was granted the rare opportunity to perform with his world-reknowned Timbalada - from 1993-1996. Itamar also recorded 2 albums with Brown (see discography below).
2003 Tomate com Laranja, "A Banda Pra Você Não Esquecer"
2002 Palminha da Mão, "Ao Vivo"
1997 Omon Engoma, "Filhos Do Tambor"
1996 Carlinhos Brown, "Alfagamabetizado"
1994 and 1995 Timbalada, "Cada Cabeca E Um Mundo" and "Andei Road"
Itamar has been invited to teach Percussion and History of Samba as part of UFBA Professor Edilevza Santana´s class.