Luis Avellar
was born on April 7, 1956, and started playing classical piano at the
age of 6. He studied orchestration at the Mannes School of Music in New
York before returning to his native Brazil at the age of 21 to start
his career at Rede Globo de Televisao as a musician, arranger and
producer for different soap operas. As a pianist and arranger, Luis has
worked with some of the most popular musicians in Brazil including Djavan, Gal Costa, Milton Nascimento, and Simone.
He's played instrumental music with Victor
Assis Brasil, Helio Delrino, Mario Montarroyos, Nico Assunpcao, Ricardo
Silveira, Wayne Shorter, Larry Coryell, Phil Wood, Toots Thielemans and
Billy Cobham. As a solo artist, Luis has recorded five albums paying tribute to Brazilian composers and two more albums produced by Almir Chediak called 'Bons Amigos' (Good Friends), where he was accompanied by various big names in Brazilian music such as Hermeto
Pascoal, Arthur Maia, Carlos Bala, Claudio Infante, Helio Delmiro,
Paulo Moura, Paulo Russo, Raul de Souza, Ricardo Silveira, Robertinho
Silva, Jorge Elder and Ana Zinger.
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