Lucas Santana with Sven Rozier Quintet
Born in São Paulo, Lucas Santana started his musical studies playing the clarinet in the city of Piracaia, in the country side of São Paulo, Brazil. Through years of hard work, he had the opportunity to participate in several groups in the Bragantine Region, such as the Youth Big Band of Atibaia and the Youth Symphonic Band of Bragança Paulista.
By playing with the Youth Orchestra Tom Jobim – EMESP he was able to perform at some of the most important theatres of the State of São Paulo, like the Latin America Memorial, the MASP Auditorium, the São Pedro theater and Sala São Paulo with great artists of Brazilian music such as Roberto Sion, Nelson Ayres, Monica Salmaso, Tatiana Parra, Benjamim Taubkim, Marcos Suzano, Ricardo Herz, Nailor Proveta, among others.
He won the Young Soloist prize into the Tom Jobim Youth Orchestra in 2014 and Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation award 2016. Lucas received a scholarship for the first year of the bachelor’s degree in the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Holland. Since then he has been developing his career in Europe.
Playing solo, he shared the stage with several artists of Brazilian instrumental music like Edu Ribeiro, Paulo Braga, Marinho Andreotti, Eduardo Neves, Moises Alves, Daniel Sá, Michel Dorfman, Renato Borghetti and many others. At the moment Lucas has concluded the Master’s Programme at ‘Conservatorium van Amsterdam’, having as mentors Jasper Blom, Simon Rigter, Ben van Gelder and Dick Oatts.
Lucas had the privilege of receiving a few awards and winning competitions such as the Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation 2016, Jazz Contest Bucharest 2017 with AG Quintet, member of JM World Jazz Orchestra 2019, Keep an Eye Records 2020 and Downbeat Magazine Student Award 2021.
Sven Rozier is a drummer, educator and composer. Born in Chun Chun City (South Korea), Sven discovered at a very early age that drumming was his passion. Later on he graduated from the Conservatory in Rotterdam, specialising in Jazz music. Throughout his career, Sven played all over the world with big artists at several big festivals, such as Saskia Laroo, Alexander Beets, Rolf Delfos, Eric Vloeimans, Lou Guldemond, Scott Hamilton.
