FREE Courtroom Concert: Alma Brasileira

Alma Brasiliera: Cléa Galhano, recorder Joan Griffith, guitar and cavaquinho David Schmalenberger, percussion Minnesota-based musicians Cléa Galhano (recorder), Joan Griffith (guitar and cavaquinho), and David Schmalenberger (percussion) perform a vibrant Brazilian repertoire, highlighting diverse musical styles shaped by African and Portuguese influences. Brazilian recorder player Cléa Galhano is an internationally renowned performer of early, contemporary and Brazilian music. Galhano has performed in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe as a chamber musician, collaborating with recorder player Marion Verbruggen, Jacques Ogg, Belladonna Baroque Quartet and Kingsbury Ensemble and guitarist Rene Izquierdo. As a featured soloist, Galhano has worked with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, New World Symphony, Musical Offering and Lyra Baroque Orchestra. Galhano studied in Brazil at Faculdade Santa Marcelina, the Royal Conservatory, The Hague, and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, as a Fulbright Scholar. She is the Music Director of the Recorder Orchestra of the Midwest. Ms. Galhano recently received the prestigious McKnight fellowship award, MSAB Cultural collaborative and MSAB Arts Initiative. Currently, she is a faculty member at Macalester College, Adjunct Lecturer in Music, Recorder HPI at Jacob’s School of Music, Indiana Ms. Galhano has nine recordings available on Dorian, Ten Thousand Lakes and Eldorado label . Clea is the recipient of the National Arts Associate of Sigma Alpha Iota and the American Recorder Society President’s Special Honor Award. Joan Griffith is known in the Midwest as a teacher, performer and composer. She has toured and recorded extensively as a classical and jazz guitarist, a bassist and a mandolinist. The 2011 CD “A Girl Named Vincent” with Prudence Johnson, the 2008 jazz CD, “Sambanova” with pianist Laura Caviani, her 2009 CD “Alma Brasileira” with recorder player Clea Galhano and CD “Enter You, Enter Love,”…