Brazilian guitar player and composer, Mateus Starling graduated from Berklee college of music, majored in performance and received Summa Cum Laude.
Kairós, Mateus debut cd, was Record with 2 different bands (trio and quartet), and was released in january 2009 and had already been considered one of the best cds in the jazz fusion segment did by a guitar player in the last few years. The songs reflect strong influences of rock, free jazz and brazilian music and was recorded by top musicians f...
Brazilian guitar player and composer, Mateus Starling graduated from Berklee college of music, majored in performance and received Summa Cum Laude.
Kairós, Mateus debut cd, was Record with 2 different bands (trio and quartet), and was released in january 2009 and had already been considered one of the best cds in the jazz fusion segment did by a guitar player in the last few years. The songs reflect strong influences of rock, free jazz and brazilian music and was recorded by top musicians from Brazil, Chile and USA.
Born in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Starling started playing guitar in the 90´s, influenced by rock guitar players. When he was 16 started playing professionally doing gigs with local artists and bands, and on that time recorded his first demo with instrumental music and the magazine rock brigade declared: “Mateus is the future of the brazilian guitar”.
At 17 years of age he moved to Rio de Janeiro and played with band Karambah and got national notoriety playing in radios, Tv broad casts and doing gigs throughout the country.
Mateus also did jingles for Tv and had a special program on the main tv channel of the state showing his instrumental compositions.
In 2004 get married and, as a Christian, started playing and recording on the gospel scene. In the same year got his first formal training in a school of music, doing ear training and harmony and studied with Hélio Delmiro and also received a degree in law.
In 2005 got a scholarship to study at Berklee College of music. At Berklee had the opportunity to study with great musicians such as Mick Goodrick, Hal Crook, Mark Whitfield, also played with the Bret’s frets group lead by Bret Willmott. Mateus Starling also recorded with several grammy award producers from Brasil and USA.
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