His story through the years…
2001
Itiberê Orquestra Família releases its first CD, the double CD Pedra do Espia (Jam Music), elected one of the 10 best CDs released that year by the newspaper O GLOBO.
2010
The Orchestra performs in several cities in Brazil with the New Orchestras Project,
of the CCBB.
2016
The group performs at the Oitava edição do Festival Choro&Jazz em Jericoacoara (Ceará) in honor of Hermeto Pascoal's 80th birthday.
2003
Itiberê Orquestra Família participates as special guest in the recording of the CD Mundo Verde Esperança by Hermeto Pascoal and Group.
2011
Itiberê Zwarg e Grupo records the program Palco Móvel from TV Brasil, performs at SESC Pompéia and UFSC, and participates in the I Festiarte in Brasília.
2018
To celebrate 50 years of his career, Itiberê recorded with his group the CD “Intuitivo” (SESC Seal), with original compositions.
“Pedra do Espia”, the first CD by Itiberê Orquestra Família, was re-released by Far Out Records, in London, on CD and LP.
2005
Itiberê was awarded a scholarship in the last edition of the Prêmio Vitae Compositor, to compose for the Itiberê Orquestra Família.
2012
Itiberê receives sponsorship from Secretaria Municipal de Cultura do Rio de Janeiro to record the CD Identidade (Delira Musica). The CD was released at Teatro Rival, at the BNDES auditorium, and at Parque das Ruínas (Rio de Janeiro). Still in 2012, Itiberê Zwarg e Grupo participates in the Cultural Market of Bahia, and receives sponsorship from the Secretary of Culture of the State of Rio de Janeiro, through the edict Circuito Estadual das Artes , performing in the Popular Theater of Rio das Ostras, Dom Pedro Theater (Petrópolis), and SESC São João de Meriti.
2020
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2006
The Orchestra launches its second CD, the double album “Calendar do Som”, with compositions by Hermeto Pascoal and arrangements by Itiberê in a launch tour sponsored by Natura, with shows in Brazil, Uruguay e Argentina.
2014
Live recording of the DVD Na tela da imaginação , at Teatro de Arena of Caixa Cultural do Rio de Janeiro, with all music and arrangements by Itiberê Zwarg, except for the composition Correndo pro Guairão , by Hermeto Pascoal.
2021
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2008
The Orchestra performs in several cities in Brazil with the New Orchestras Project of CCBB.
2015
Itiberê gives three workshops, one of them for the musicians of Filarmônica Jovem de Bogotá (Colombia) and the group performs in the festival "Encontro da Música Latino Americana".
2021
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Itibere Zwarg &
Hermeto Pascoal
Itiberê, the historical bass player and main collaborator of Hermeto Pascoal, is considered one of the great architects of the renaissance of Brazilian instrumental music.
Since 1977, the two artists have collaborated closely in the emergence of a new trend, a new "sound", studied by musicians and musicologists all over the world under the name of Universal Music, an original musical language whose roots lie in Brazilian folklore, in jazz, and in all the forms and styles that lend themselves to its free and unlimited inspiration.
Together with the "Grupo", they have recorded more than ten important albums, won several Grammy Awards and toured the world.
Since 1999, Itiberê Zwarg has pursued a parallel career under his own name, making a significant contribution to the history and repertoire of Universal Music.
"Universal Music is an integration of all musical styles and tendencies, without prejudices that reach people all over the world through the heart."
Itiberê Zwarg
Itibere Zwarg &
the Universal Music
A name and musical tendency launched by Hermeto Pascoal in an attempt to define his own music, Universal Music is a philosophy, a musical language in its own right. It is the affirmation of an art form impregnated with the many impressions received from the world. Universal Music integrates - in a typically Brazilian tropism - influences from all over the world, never ceasing to reinvent them with a disconcerting freshness.
With a polyharmonic and polyrhythmic approach, challenging the genres of all musical styles, Universal Music plays with boundaries. A political universe of luxuriant prodigality, he plunges his roots into the land of Brazil, accumulating incredible rhythms, shaking tonalities, and integrating styles such as jazz, classical music, folkloric music, and the sounds of nature.
"With an ability to see and hear music in all sounds, Universal Music is music that, though complex in harmony and rhythm, manifests an essence of pure nature rarely found in instrumental music" ( from the booklet Spy Rock, Itiberê Zwarg, Far Out Recordings, 2018).
Música Universal claims a natural and free approach to music, ignoring the boundaries between academic and popular to stimulate its own thematic universality.