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Bruno Cabrera
Percussionist/Arranger/Composer/Music Teacher
Bruno Cabrera founded and directed the Brazilian Chamber Ensemble at Indiana University. During his years in Jacobs School of Music, he worked for the Latin
American Music Center as a performer, arranger, lecturer and coaching
for the Latin American Popular Music Ensemble, group where he shared the stage and wrote arrangements for great names of Latin American Music.
Grammy Award Winner Gonzalo Grau (Venezuela), Grammy Award nominees Pablo Aslan (Argentina), Jovino Santos Neto (Brazil), Adam Del Monte (Spain) and Michael Spiro (USA).
Yet at IU he finished his Performer Diploma, Masters in Music and performed in many different concerts including the premiere of Chappell Kingsland's opera: "Intoxication: America's love affair with oil", Eric Lindsay's "Cosmic Ray and the Amazing Chris" and the "Double Exposure", event that consists in recording soundtracks for short movies and live performance of music with screening. Bruno also appeared as guest artist in the recording of "Latin Love Songs" by Grammy Award Winner Sylvia Mcnair.
During his years of undergraduate student he was often composing and arranging a great variety of music for percussion solo and percussion chamber music. In 2009 his composition "Dupla Face" won the third prize of the "1st composition competition of Unesp". Bruno performed at Lincoln Center's Avery Fischer Hall under the direction of the renowned Brazilian pianist and conductor João Carlos Martins and with Arthur Moreira Lima as a guest soloist. During his time with the "São Caetano Philarmonic Orchestra" he had the opportunity to share the stage with great names of the Brazilian popular music, such as Ivan Lins, Gal Costa and Toquinho.
Yet during his undergrad studies at "Universidade Estadual Paulista - Unesp", he was part of "Piap", group where in 2010 he was touring with throughout North America, giving concerts of classical Brazilian works for percussion ensemble and presenting masterclasses on Brazilian popular music in eighteen different universities including Boston University, NIU, Manhattan School of Music and others.
Grammy Award Winner Gonzalo Grau (Venezuela), Grammy Award nominees Pablo Aslan (Argentina), Jovino Santos Neto (Brazil), Adam Del Monte (Spain) and Michael Spiro (USA).
Yet at IU he finished his Performer Diploma, Masters in Music and performed in many different concerts including the premiere of Chappell Kingsland's opera: "Intoxication: America's love affair with oil", Eric Lindsay's "Cosmic Ray and the Amazing Chris" and the "Double Exposure", event that consists in recording soundtracks for short movies and live performance of music with screening. Bruno also appeared as guest artist in the recording of "Latin Love Songs" by Grammy Award Winner Sylvia Mcnair.
During his years of undergraduate student he was often composing and arranging a great variety of music for percussion solo and percussion chamber music. In 2009 his composition "Dupla Face" won the third prize of the "1st composition competition of Unesp". Bruno performed at Lincoln Center's Avery Fischer Hall under the direction of the renowned Brazilian pianist and conductor João Carlos Martins and with Arthur Moreira Lima as a guest soloist. During his time with the "São Caetano Philarmonic Orchestra" he had the opportunity to share the stage with great names of the Brazilian popular music, such as Ivan Lins, Gal Costa and Toquinho.
Yet during his undergrad studies at "Universidade Estadual Paulista - Unesp", he was part of "Piap", group where in 2010 he was touring with throughout North America, giving concerts of classical Brazilian works for percussion ensemble and presenting masterclasses on Brazilian popular music in eighteen different universities including Boston University, NIU, Manhattan School of Music and others.
After finishing his Master in Music at Jacobs School of Music he went to Ball State University where he is currently pursuing his Doctoral degree and working as a Graduate Assitant in the percussion department teaching undergraduate students, directing a percussion ensembles and started the BSU Batucada to teach Brazilian carnival music.