Jacques Morelenbaum

Jacques Morelenbaum (Rio de Janeiro, May 18, 1954) is a brazilian instrumentalist, arranger, conductor, composer and music producer.

Son of conductor Henrique Morelenbaum and professor of piano Sarah Morelenbaum. Brother of Lucia Morelenbaum, clarinettist of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, and Eduardo Morelenbaum, conductor, arranger and instrumentalist. He is married to the singer Paula Morelenbaum.

He started his musical career as part of group "A Barca do Sol", also attended the "Nova Banda" performed with Antonio Carlos Jobim, acting in shows and recordings that led to the "Grammy" winners with the CD "Antonio Brasileiro". Featured as cellist, studied music in Brazil and later joined to "New England Conservatory of Music". He integrated the "Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum" in 1995, along with Paula Morelenbaum, Paulo Jobim and Daniel Jobim with whom he toured several times to Europe, including presentation at the "Expo'98" held in Lisbon, in addition to presentations at the United States and Brazil and a CD recording of "Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum".

"Nordeste Já" ("Northeast Already")

Drawing up the seam still engaged in post-dictatorship, sang, even with a small individual participation in the choir of the Brazilian version of "We Are the World", the hit American who joined voices and raised funds for Africa or "USA for Africa". The project "Nordeste Já" (1985), embraced the cause of drought Northeast, 155 voices joining in a single, collective creation, with the songs "Chega de mágoa" and "Seca d´água". It Praised by the competency of individual interpretations, he was nevertheless criticized for failure to harmonize the voices and the framework of each of them in chorus.

As arranger, he worked alongside Tom Jobim ("Passarim, O tempo e o vento, Tom Jobim: inédito" and "Antônio Brasileiro"), Caetano Veloso ("Circuladô, Circuladô vivo, Fina estampa', Fina estampa, ao vivo, Tieta do agreste, Prenda minha, Livro" and "Homaggio a Fellini e Giulieta"), Gal Costa ("Mina d'água do meu canto"), Paula Morelenbaum, Ivan Lins, Barão Vermelho and Skank, among others, besides the album "Piazzollando" (honoring the work of Astor Piazzolla) in which also served as instrumentalist, conductor and music producer. The disc was considered critical by argentina as one of the 10 best of 1992. He wrote further, arrangements for records of Marisa Monte and Carlinhos Brown and the acoustic disc of Titãs, which amounted to 1,5 million copies sold.

International partners

He also served as arranger, at works by international artists such as the Portuguese band Madredeus, the Portuguese singer Dulce Pontes, the Japanese group Gontiti, the Angolan composer Paulo Flores, the Scottish composer David Byrne and the Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora, among other works. Among his best known work is "Transparente", in partnership with Mariza. At 2001, he participated as cellist of the recording of the DVD "All this time", by Sting. At 2008, he produced and arranged the Mexican singer Julieta Venegas MTV Unplugged.

Movies

At the movies,he appears in a participation alongside Caetano Veloso in "Talk to Her" (Spanish: "Hable con ella"), by Pedro Almodovar. He composed in partnership with Antonio Pinto the soundtrack to "Central Station" (Portuguese: "Central do Brasil") (which for this work received the "Prêmio Sharp" (Sharp Award), at the category "Best Soundtrack" for the cinema). Orfeu do Carnaval, Tieta do Agreste, and O Quatrilho are among others works. Besides these works, ruled the symphony orchestras of Bahia and Brasilia in some presentations.

He launched in 2002 the CD "Casa", with Paula Morelenbaum and Ryuichi Sakamoto, recorded in the home of Tom Jobim, author of all the songs on the disc. In 2003, he participated in jazz festivals at Montreux, Vienna, Lisbon, Porto, Rome, and Milan, among others, and at the United States, he launched the CD "A day in New York".