Over her 30+ year relationship with music, Carmen Sandim eclectic aesthetics have drawn her in many directions, including performances with symphony orchestras, scoring for independent movies, composing award winning TV and radio jingles, and leading, writing, and arranging for her own Jazz ensembles. Sandim first gained attention as a Jazz composer in the 2000s after moving to Boulder, Colorado. Her debut album, 2011's "Brand New", features cornetist Ron Miles. In 2016, she won a grant from Pathways to Jazz to record her sophomore album, "Play-Doh", released in 2019 via Ropeadope Records. Carmen's latest project "Mini Brazilian Beasts", released in 2022 on Octave Records, features jazz luminaries Ron Miles and Gilad Hekselman...
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Over her 30+ year relationship with music, Carmen Sandim eclectic aesthetics have drawn her in many directions, including performances with symphony orchestras, scoring for independent movies, composing award winning TV and radio jingles, and leading, writing, and arranging for her own Jazz ensembles. Sandim first gained attention as a Jazz composer in the 2000s after moving to Boulder, Colorado. Her debut album, 2011's "Brand New", features cornetist Ron Miles. In 2016, she won a grant from Pathways to Jazz to record her sophomore album, "Play-Doh", released in 2019 via Ropeadope Records. Carmen's latest project "Mini Brazilian Beasts", released in 2022 on Octave Records, features jazz luminaries Ron Miles and Gilad Hekselman. Originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sandim studied music at Boston's Berklee College of Music and University of Colorado. Carmen currently lives in Denver and teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and University of Colorado Denver.Bill Kopper is a Boulder, Colorado based guitarist known for his fluency in American Jazz and Blues, and Brazilian Samba and Bossa Nova.. He is featured on a diverse selection of recordings, from his own CDs, Samba de Chueca, El Oeste, Muzungu, and Ancient Rhythms, to Jazz vocalist and 2017 Grammy nominee Rene Marie’s CD “Black Lace Freudian Slip” and the soundtrack to her one-woman show “Slut Energy Theory,” Brazilian pianist/composer Carmen Sandim’s 2019 Rope-a-Dope Records release, “Play Doh”, Choro Clarinetist Dexter Payne’s discs “Pra Voce” and “Jazz For All”, Spanish born vocalist Sonya Vallet’s debut recording “Moments in Passing”, Jazz Saxophonist Nelson Rangell’s discs “Soul to Soul” and “American Songbook, Chicago Jazz trumpeter“Brad Goode’s “Polytonal Dance Party” and “Chicago Red”, Peruvian Folk vocalist Cristina Mendoza Vidal’s debut release “La Aurora, Icaros From the Amazon”, among many others. He is currently an instructor of guitar and the University of Colorado/Denver where he has taught for the last 12 years, and divides his time musically among the Samba/Pagode group Ginga, the Brazilian Choro/Forro group The Dexter Payne Quintet, the Brazilian Jazz Group Coraçao, Sao Paulo, Brazil native and vocalist Gui Kroneberger’s group, Rio de Janeiro native Michele Castro’s group, Sonya Vallet’s group Los Profugos Galacticos, and his own group, The Bill Kopper Quintet. In 2023 he completed his 4th recording as leader and his first recording as an Octave Records recording artist, released in the spring of 2024.
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