The Vianna Bergeron Brazilian Quintet is led by pianist Cassio Vianna and saxophonist Tom Bergeron — and features vocalist Rosi Bergeron. The band is rounded out by bassist Clipper Anderson and drummer Mark Ivester.
The quintet focuses on music by Brazilian artists and original compositions by Vianna. All members of the band are steeped in traditional and contemporary Brazilian rhythms and practices.
Dr. Cassio Vianna, award-winning composer and professor of music at PLU, grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he began his musical studies. After establishing a successful career as a performing and recording artist in Brazil, his interest in further study and new opportunities led him to the US, where he earned master’s and doctoral degrees. He taught at the University of Northern Colorado, Umpqua Community College, and Western Oregon University before accepting the position of Director of Jazz Studies at Pacific Lutheran University....
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The Vianna Bergeron Brazilian Quintet is led by pianist Cassio Vianna and saxophonist Tom Bergeron — and features vocalist Rosi Bergeron. The band is rounded out by bassist Clipper Anderson and drummer Mark Ivester.
The quintet focuses on music by Brazilian artists and original compositions by Vianna. All members of the band are steeped in traditional and contemporary Brazilian rhythms and practices.
Dr. Cassio Vianna, award-winning composer and professor of music at PLU, grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he began his musical studies. After establishing a successful career as a performing and recording artist in Brazil, his interest in further study and new opportunities led him to the US, where he earned master’s and doctoral degrees. He taught at the University of Northern Colorado, Umpqua Community College, and Western Oregon University before accepting the position of Director of Jazz Studies at Pacific Lutheran University.
Dr. Tom Bergeron has performed throughout the United States, and in France, Poland, Germany, Costa Rica, and Brazil. He has appeared with Ella Fitzgerald, Anthony Braxton, Rosemary Clooney, Natalie Cole, Robert Cray, and many others. Tom has been studying and performing Brazilian music for more than 20 years. Before retiring in 2018, he taught music theory, saxophone, and Brazilian music at Western Oregon University.
Rosi Bergeron was born in raised in Rio de Janeiro. Since a young age, she regularly attended rehearsals at several of Rio’s venerable escolas de samba — sometimes in
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the company of her musician father. Since coming to the US in 2009, she has established herself as a dynamic interpreter of bossa nova, samba, choro, and MPB.
Bassist Clipper Anderson is a musician who defies labels. Equally comfortable with straight-ahead, traditional, free jazz or bebop, he plays with genuine reverence for the music and an unassuming mastery that speaks for itself. He is a virtuosic improviser, known for creating intelligent lines, which are often executed with stunning speed and precision. He is the quintessential support player who steadily holds the pocket and creates a solid foundation for whomever he shares the bandstand with. He is also a well-respected vocalist. Earshot Jazz has aptly described Clipper as “ a player for the connoisseur to savor,” and rightly so.
Mark Ivester is a founding member of the professional percussion ensemble Happy Hammers, a group that performs a broad cross-section of percussion music of various ethnic origins including the steel drums from Trinidad, African drumming of the Ewe and Yoruba tribes, Afro-Cuban drumming, Brazilian sambas, and jazz for mallet keyboard instruments. Ivester earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Eastern Washington University, and he did undergraduate and graduate work in ethnomusicology at the University of Hawaii that included field study in gamelan music on the island of Java.
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