Name: Berkeley Choro and Tim Connell, mandolin, in San Jose Home Concert
Start: 2025-01-26T16:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-01-26T18:00:00-08:00
Location: 1240 Martin Ave

Berkeley Choro Ensemble joins with the great Tim Connell, mandolin, from Portland, in an intimate home concert of Brazilian Choro Music.
About this Event

, featuring Jane Lenoir, flute, Harvey Wainapel, clarinet, Ricardo Peixoto, 7 string guitar, and Brian Rice, pandeiro, will join with the great Portland mandolinist, Tim Connell, for a concert January 25, 2025. Tim was a guest artist at our choro festival in 2015 at the in Berkeley. We welcome him back for another collaboration and visit to the world of Brazilian Choro.

A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and a virtuoso mandolinist with over twenty years professional performing experience,l has created a sophisticated and original global mandolin style. Regarded as one of the top North American interpreters of Brazilian choro, Tim has also developed his own unique voice for the instrument, described in a recent Mandolin Magazine cover story as “fiery and energetic, soulful and evocative.”

Tim regularly tours Europe and North America in the international mandolin supergroup The Ger Mandolin Orchestra. He has been a featured guest artist at national conventions of the Classical Mandolin Society of America; he has been on staff at the prestigious Mandolin Symposium for several years and performs and teaches all over the country.

Tim has performed alongside top Brazilian musicians including Dudu Maia, Choro das Tres, Alessandro Penezzi, Eduardo Neves and Almir Cortes. He collaborates with jazz clarinet superstar Harvey Wainapel and the Berkeley Choro Ensemble and performed in the premeire of Wainapel’s new piece at the Berkeley Festival of Choro in May 2015. Tim has performed with a roster of the greatest living American mandolinists, including David Grisman, Mike Marshall, Don Stiernberg, Rich Del Grosso, Chris Acquvella and many others.

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