top of page

HELOÍSA FERNANDES PIANIST & COMPOSER

BRAZIL

The music of Heloísa Fernandes is the sound of a woman free to study what she loves -- literature, nature, music of all kinds -- and to let it flow into her interpretations and compositions. Strong and original, ancient and modern, her creations blossom with rhythmic vitality and melodic delicacy. Using her skill as an improviser she plumbs emotional depths and soars with joy. "Fernandes is beyond categorization," wrote the Post and Courier of her American debut, "She is herself, and I'll always be interested in any music she cares to explore."

PRESS QUOTES

“She was pure enchantment from the moment she entered, shook off her high heels, and delivered a rich whiff of Brazil – Villa-Lobos's Abril transitioning into Jobim's Double Rainbow – pedaling with her bare feet. There was an unexpected Corea-like simplicity to Fernandes' interpretations of the Villa-Lobos and a rhapsodic grandeur to her Jobim.” PERRY TANNENBAUM, JAZZTIMES

 

“... Luminous and lyrical, Fernandes is beyond categorization. She is herself, and I'll always be interested in any music she cares to explore.” TIME PAGE, THE POST AND COURIER

“It’s surely a sign of an accomplished performer when she can kick off her shoes, share a warm, familiar laugh with an unfamiliar audience in a far-off place, and dazzle with every note all the while. It was a wonderful North American debut for Brazilian pianist Heloisa Fernandes.”
JASON A. ZWIKER, CHARLESTON CITY PAPER

“... One of her greatest virtues is an underlying impulse, a joy both sunny and sober, a contentment in the fun and freedom of making music, blended with the responsibility to play everything with meaning, even in the free improvisations ...” ARTHUR NESTROVSKI, FOLHA DE SÃO PAULO
 

DOWNLOAD

ARTIST WEBSITE

BEBE (HERMETO PASCOAL)

SOLO CONCERT FOR TV BRASIL

VÔO (HELOÍSA FERNANDES) - HELOÍSA FERNANDES QUARTET

THE MS. MOZART PROJECT

DAS KÖNIGREICH RÜCKEN - THE MS. MOZART PROJECT

ROSA (PIXINGUINHA)

VÔO (HELOÎSA FERNANDES)

RETRATO EM BRANCO E PRETO (TOM JOBIM & CHICO BUARQUE)

TRILHOS URBANOS (CAETANO VELOSO)

EXCERPTS FROM PRAIÁS, VÔO & CANDEIAS (HELOÍSA FERNANDES)

bottom of page