Camilo Carrara, guitar, holds a degree in classical guitar from the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo and has a Masters Degree in Strategic Marketing Management at the São Paulo University School of Economics and Administration. His diverse career includes being a music producer, performer on guitar, mandolin and other strummed instruments, arranger, composer and teacher. His discography consists of more than eighty solo and collaborative ensemble compact disc recordings.
Since 2011 Mr. Carrara has been the producer and arranger of the CD and DVD of the “Bradesco Christmas show”– an event that brings together thousands of people around the Palace Avenue, in the city center of Curitiba, state of Paraná, in Brazil.
Carrara holds a professorship at the Faculty Cantareira in São Paulo, and at the Music in the Mountains Festival, in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais. For seven years he has been the guitar mentor at the National Music Festival where, in 2012, he premiered his Cadence and Dance for Guitar and Orchestra under the baton of Richard Rosenberg. Performing in Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, USA, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Venezuela, and throughout Brazil, he has a stellar reputation performing many different genres of music–from classical to popular, contemporary music, jazz and pop.
In 1989 he was an itinerant musician, travelling for nine months throughout Europe, celebrating the Bicentenary of the French Revolution in Paris, witnessing first-hand the fall of the Berlin Wall and busking in parks and subway stations.
Camilo Carrara has produced the soundtracks for major advertising agencies such as Ogilvy & Mather Brazil, Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Grey, Taterka, B/Ferraz and Bullet, Carrefour, Vivo, Advil, Leroy Merlin, P & G, Gillette, Unilever, Hyundai, to name but a few. He has been a guest artist and soloist with some of the foremost Brazilian orchestras with Eleazar de Carvalho (Brazil), Filip Rathe (Belgium), Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Russia), Heinz Holliger (Swiss), Ira Levin (USA), Isaac Karabtchevsky (Brazil), John Neschling (Brazil), Marin Alsop (USA), Olaf Henzold (Germany), Peter Maxwell Davies (England) and Yan Pascal Tortelier (France).
As a result of his affiliation with the National Music Festival, Carrara collaborated with Sue Matthews in 2015 to create the compact disc, Foolish Hearts.
