Marcelo Castilha
PIANIST AND ACCORDIONIST
COMPOSER
multimedia artist
He is a pianist, accordionist, publicist and multi-media artist who moves through the various areas in which creation and culture are expressed. He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston and graduated in Social Communication from ESPM. With his Improvised Jazz Trio, he released the disc Interferências. He teaches arduino, music & electronics and reactivision workshops, was a founding partner of the ACASABRANCA Cultural Centre and the creator of Improvisado Balada Jazz, a monthly event held between 2007 and 2013 at Casa das Caldeiras – a laboratory for musical experimentation with more than 40 guest artists (such as KikoDinucci).
artists (such as Kiko Dinucci, Marina de la Riva, Romulo Fróes) and which provided an intense dialogue between the visual arts, photography, dance and performance and reached an average audience of 300 people per night.
PIANIST AND ACCORDIONIST
He is a member of the groups Língua de Trapo (humour band), Marcelo Monteiro Quinteto (jazz) and Trio Improvisado (jazz) and Versão Brasileira Herbert Richers. He performs as a solo pianist. He performed as a musician in the theatre shows Ham-let (Zé Celso Martinez) and Na selva das cidades (Cibele Forjaz). He has accompanied singers such as Jair Rodrigues, Márcia Castro, Sônia Lima, Juliana Kehl, Gero Camilo and Felipe Antunes.
COMPOSER
He produces soundtracks for theatre (Histórias de Chuva, by Milton Morales Filho), cinema (Boca do Lixo, by Flávio Frederico; Estamos Juntos, by Toni Venturi/BiD – Soulcity) and dance shows (Membranas, by Mariana Costa and Liene Bosque; Trajetórias, by Tatiana Melitello; Nós, by Melitello and Pablo Perosa).
MULTIMEDIA ARTIST
Created content and interactive objects for the exhibitions: Words and the World (SESC SP circuit); Pensologicoexisto (SESC SP circuit); Tatiana Belink (SESC Consolação). He created the installation Bcycleart (Casa das Caldeiras), in which a bicycle was an interactive drawing tool; Interactive lighting for a silent dance floor (Sesc Belenzinho); reordering of Haroldo de Campos’ poem by voice recognition, in the installation Galáxias (ACASABRANCA); projection mapping in the exhibition O que te move (Sesc Bertioga).
https://www.marcelocastilha.com.br
