obrigado BRASIL!

We bow to the wonderful Brazilian music and arrange and interpret choros with guitar, clarinet and cello.

Choros are one of the oldest Brazilian styles in folk music. South American folk music was influenced by European emigrants. Melancholic fados, waltzes and polka that produced their own musical style in the melting pot of emigrated cultures, light, playful, melancholic.

With Edmauro de Oliveira we have a virtuoso Brazilian guitarist who has absorbed all the rhtyhmic and choro-typical subtleties with his mother's milk. Franco Mettler and Stefan Baumann grew up with Toggenburg folk music - it is quite possible that emigrants to Brazil brought string music pieces with them and these live on transformed into choros.

We are all classically trained at music academies, use our virtuoso craft curiously beyond the horizon of the classical repertoire, in folk music, theater music, jazz and improvisation.

It is a great pleasure to interpret Brazilian music, which is characterized by European dance music and African rhythms, melancholic and rousing melodies, gentle, swinging, narrative, improvised, narrative and playful.

We look forward to taking you into the world of choros with ease and a fine sense of rhythm and melody!

Franco Mettler, clarinet
Stefan Baumann, 6-string cello
Edmauro de Oliveira, 7-string guitar