Artist: Flavio Venturini
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Luz Viva
Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Para sempre
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
Cole'o Perolas
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
Meus Momentos 2
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Meus Momentos 1
Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
Trem Azul
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
Flavio Venturini and Toninho Horta
Year: 1997
Tracks: 9
O Talento de Flavio Venturini
Year: 1984
Tracks: 17
Andarilho
Year: 1984
Tracks: 12
Flávio Venturini highly-developed celebrated solo work, along with his work in the 14 Bis, unitary of the most of import contemporary vocal/instrumental groups in Brazil. A fellow member of the Clube da Esquina mathematical group of composers from Minas Gerais, he has had his compositions recorded by Peter Gabriel, Milton Nascimento, Nana Caymmi, Beto Guedes, Leila Pinheiro, Jane Duboc, EmÃlio Santiago, and Simone, among others. His several hits include "Todo Azul do Mar," "Caçador de Mim" (with LuÃs Carlos Sá), "Espanhola" (with Gutemberg Guarabyra), "Planeta Sonho" (with Vermelho/Márcio Borges), "Pensando em Você" (with Kimura), "Nascente" (with M. Antunes), and "Clube da Esquina 2" (with Lô Borges/Márcio Borges/Milton Nascimento). His low amber record as a solo artist was with his record album Noites Com Sol (1994).
Venturini started to study music at 15, pickings up the piano accordion. After for a while, he enrolled at the Fundação de Educação ArtÃstica de Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais), studying musical perception and pianissimo. He would later study musical composition and arranging with Walter Smetak, Ernest Widmer, Bruno Kiefer, Ailton Escobar, Cláudia Cimbleris, and Rogério Duprat. His earliest performances happened in the '60s in the Winter Festivals of Minas Gerais. In the '70s, he participated with local bands such as the Shines, Os Turbulentos, and Crisalis that played balls. He too participated in the Festival Estudantil da Canção, Festival Universitário de Belo Horizonte (winning the second home), and the Festival Internacional da Canção/FIC (1970, International Song Festival, Rio de Janeiro). In that 10, he had already joined the mathematical group known as Clube da Esquina, performing in the shows Fio da Navalha with the composers from Minas Gerais country such as Lô Borges, Beto Guedes, Tavinho Moura, Toninho Horta, Vermelho, and Zé Eduardo, among others. After 1974, he became a member of O Terço when he touched to São Paulo. Having worked with that mathematical group until 1977, he had in this year his song "1974" performed by the Royal Ballet of Canada in a tour through Canada and the U.S. His "Nascente" was included on Milton Nascimento's LP Clube da Esquina No. 2 (an album on which he likewise participated as an instrumentalist). Venturini and Beto Guedes were invited on the tour that launched the album. In 1979, he formed the 14 Bis with Vermelho. Venturini's solo career started in 1982 (unbroken in parallel with the work for the 14 Bis until 1987), a year in which he recorded the LP Nascente. Also in 1982, he started to save music for the cinema, having composed soundtracks for the award-winning films Quando Os Morcegos Se Calam, Viagem de Ônibus, and Instinto Animal. He too wrote soundtracks for the film Aleluia Gretchen (SÃlvio Back) and for the flirt Hilda Furacão. In 1989, he participated in the Free Jazz Festival and performed at the Circo Voador with Toninho Horta in a show that was recorded and released in 1987. Following that, he performed several shows with Lô Borges, Zé Renato, Beto Guedes, and Wagner Tiso, including Minas Em Concerto. His earliest external performances happened in the '90s in the U.S. and Canada. At Santiago de Compostela (Espana), Venturini participated in the Missa disk operating system Quilombos during the remembrance of 500-year anniversary of the breakthrough of the Americas.
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