Carlos Barbosa-Lima
The Brazilian guitarist Carlos Barbosa-Lima is acclaimed as one of the leading guitarists in the world today. With his career centered in the United States, he has toured extensively as a recitalist, and has appeared as soloist with such major orchestras as those of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis, Louisville, Baltimore, Seattle, New Orleans, and the Pro-Arte Orchestra of Munich.
Mr. Barbosa-Lima's festival appearances include the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. the ''Guitarstream '85" at Carnegie Hall, Garamoor and Chautauqua. Besides performing extensively throughout the United States and Canada, he has toured most of Europe, the Far East, the Middle East and South Arnerica. Lately Mr. Barbosa-Lima has appeared with great success in prestigious clubs in New York and Washington, D.C. as a soloist and in collaboration with the Charlie Byrd Trio. Recently he performed to a sold-out house at New York's Avery Fisher Hall alongside the Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Mr. Barbosa-Lima is widely recognized for his extraordinay skills as a transcriber and arranger of a wide range of music, from Scarlatti and Debussy to Jobim, Gershwin and Cole Porter, for the guitar. Many Contemporary composers have written and dedicated works to him. including Alberto Ginastera, Francisco Mignone and Bobby Scott.
Carlos Barbosa-Lima is currently on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music in New York City has also conducted masterclasses throughout North America and Europe. He has made several recordings, and is currently recording for Concord Records. His most recent releases, including his album Brazil With Love" and "Rhapsody in Blue West Side Story" with Sharon lsbin, have been widely acclaimed, reaching both classical and jazz audiences. Mr. Barbosa-Lima began studying the guitar at the age of seven and made his debut at age twelve in Säo Paulo and Rio de Janiero. Shortly thereafter he began his recording career. His teachers included Isaias Savio and Andrés Segovia.
Reviews:
"Carlos Barbosa-Lima made his points modestly and quietly but with such authority that each work he played became an absorbing musical experience." THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Barbosa-Lima is a graceful player who commands a wide vocabulary of sound. The line was sinuous, expanding and contracting as he stressed a phrase or a sound. His ability to vary the sound of strings lets him set up a kind of multi-layered playing with foreground and background in sharp contrast. The outer movements were colorful and brilliant: the center movement with its langorous cadenza was the jewel. A performance that was unusually satisfying in a setting that tends to defeat musical efforts." (Guest artist with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos at Robin Hood Dell) PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
". . . a classical guitarist of extraordinary skills. So deft was his touch last night that his fingers almost seemed not to make contact with his instrument but somehow to set in motion noncorporeal impulses that activated the strings." THE WASHINGTON POST
"Carlos Barbosa-Lima demonstrated expressive power and range of the solo instrument - at least as employed by a musician who is completely its master. Barbosa-Lima is that both in technique and temperament." THE SEATTLE TIMES
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