Ian Coury

Irene Sazer

Trio Brasileiro

Almir Cortes

Ami Mollineli

Choroloco

Carol Panesi

Past Choro Festival Artists

Berkeley Festival of Choro 2025 Artists 

Francois de Lima

Gileno Santana/Enrique Neto Duo

Brian Moran

Nailor Proveta, Alessandro Penezzi

Choro de Ouro

Silvia Goes

Alexandre Ribeiro

Duo Violao Brasil

Anat Cohen

Berkeley Choro Ensemble

Daniel Canosa

Léa Freire

Felipe Senna

Eduardo Neves

Tim Connell

Roberta Cunha Valente

Amilton Godoy Lea Freire Duo

Claudia Villela

Choro das 3

Grupo Falso Baiano

Vitor Goncalves

Daniela Spielmann - Bio coming soon.

Sheila Zagury is a pianist, arranger, professor and researcher. She has an eclectic background, passing by classical music and jazz. Sheila has already performed with numerous famous Brazilian artists and ensembles, such as Eduardo Dussek, Ângela Rorô, Rio Jazz Orchestra, UFRJazz, Georgia Szpilman and Marianna Leporace, around Brazil and abroad. She has maintained a duo with Daniela Spielmann for 20 years. They have two CDs, “Brasileirinhas” in 2007 and “Entre. Mil… Você!” (Among All… You!) CD, launched in 2020, still in the Covid pandemic. Sheila has also a long duo with José Stance (harmonica player). Sheila performed in Staneck’s CD, “A Poética de uma Harmônica Brasileira” (The Poetry of a Brazilian Harmonica) . José Staneck e Sheila reunited with cellist Ricardo Santoro and they formed Harmonitango, a trio dedicated to Astor Piazzolla’s music. Sheila is also a member of Orquestra Lunar, an ensemble only with women. They recorded a CD and were signed to Music Tim Premium in 2007. Sheila is a professor at Escola de Música da UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Music School). She acts as a researcher as well, her PHD’s thesis is about Choro in Rio de Janeiro in the nineties.

Cellist and composer Catherine Bent, originally from London, UK, has lived in New York City and Brazil and currently resides in Boston. Her musical versatility is reflected in her diverse resumé, which includes recordings, performances and tours with Cirque du Soleil, Joe Jackson, Lee Konitz, Greg Osby, Merce Cunningham Dance, Enya, Kanye West, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer, and poet laureate Robert Pinsky. She has performed in 46 US states and 14 European countries.

Bent is a pioneering cellist in Brazilian choro and widely recognized in Brazil as a master of the genre. She is in demand as a teacher and clinician in Brazil and the US, and she is on the faculty of Choro Camp New England. Bent is an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music. 

Clarice Cast is a Grammy nominated multi percussionist from São Paulo, Brazil. She earned a Bachelor of Music from Northern Illinois University and a Masters in World Percussion from the California Institute of the Arts. She currently teaches World Percussion at College of the Canyons is an active performer, recording artist, 
and composer in Los Angeles, CA and is a regular clinician at colleges, universities, and percussion festivals, including the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, California Brazil Camp, and Choro Camp New England. She is heavily influenced by her native Brazilian culture, and it has been her driving force to learn, perform, write, and teach these styles. Clarice  proudly endorses Contemporânea Musical, Tycoon Percussion Instruments, TRX Cymbals, and Ahead Armor Cases.