On April 26, Fenice Theatre will welcome Amaro Freitas, a Brazilian pianist and pioneering modern jazz performer whose original research blends Afro-Brazilian rhythm with the freest improvisation. His latest album, Y’Y, explores a theme that feels quite close to Venice. Just like the Amazon, Venice lives suspended between earth and water in an ecosystem threatened by human intervention. A living organism that finds the reflection of its precarious existence in Freitas’ music. Born in Recife, Brazil, Amaro Freitas is a self-taught musician who came to prominence for the originality of his drum techniques and for his personal re-elaboration of baiao, frevo, and maracatu. With album Sankofa (2021) his work matured and explored the concept of cultural memory and the return to the origins.
