Guto Lucena is a Brazilian musician living in Europe since 2000. He has obtained a bachelor degree in music at UNICAMP (State University of Campinas) in 1999 and master’s degree in jazz performance at Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 2015. Besides his work as musician and music teacher he continues on the academical field studying music pedagogy at University College of Music Education in Stockholm - Sweden (SMI) and Doctor degree in music at University of Hull, UK.
During his 30 years of international career as professional musician he has recorded over 60 albums as instrumentalist (saxophones, flutes and clarinets) and as composer and arranger. Jazz is his main style and he has wide experience in many different styles such as brazilian music, pop and afro-cuban music. He’s played and recorded with Ivan Lins, Ann-Sofi Söderqvist (ASJO Big Band), Svante Thuresson, Mike Mainieri, Arild Andersen, European Jazz Orchestra (EJO Big Band), David Murray, Carmen Souza, Maria João and Mário Laginha, Ben Charest, Melissa Walker, Philip Hamilton among many others.
Guto lived in Lisbon the years between 2000 and 2013 and has performed and recorded with the great Portuguese artists such as Rui Veloso, José Mário Branco, Sérgio Godinho, Pedro Abrunhosa, José Salgueiro, Mário Laginha, Ficções, José Peixoto, Tora Tora, Big Band of Portugal’s Hot Club, and five years in a live television show “Herman Sic” as musician on a resident band. Guto has taught on the master’s degree in jazz interpretation at University of Aveiro and JB Jazz in Lisbon and several workshops and masterclasses in Sweden, Portugal and Brazil.
Nowadays Guto lives in Stockholm, Sweden where he besides his academic path is working as composer, arranger and music teacher. His more remarkable works are two compositions for an exhibition at Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm in 2013, two arrangement for the Cosmopolitan Pops Orchestra of Seattle (USA) recorded in Buenos Aires (Argentina) on the same year, one original composition performed on the opening of the Bergmanveckan (Ingmar Bergman filmfestival) in 2017 in Gotland (Sweden) and as a musical producer at Brasil Cine Stockholm. As arranger he has written for big band, orchestra and wind ensembles for many albums.
During his 30 years of international career as professional musician he has recorded over 60 albums as instrumentalist (saxophones, flutes and clarinets) and as composer and arranger. Jazz is his main style and he has wide experience in many different styles such as brazilian music, pop and afro-cuban music. He’s played and recorded with Ivan Lins, Ann-Sofi Söderqvist (ASJO Big Band), Svante Thuresson, Mike Mainieri, Arild Andersen, European Jazz Orchestra (EJO Big Band), David Murray, Carmen Souza, Maria João and Mário Laginha, Ben Charest, Melissa Walker, Philip Hamilton among many others.
Guto lived in Lisbon the years between 2000 and 2013 and has performed and recorded with the great Portuguese artists such as Rui Veloso, José Mário Branco, Sérgio Godinho, Pedro Abrunhosa, José Salgueiro, Mário Laginha, Ficções, José Peixoto, Tora Tora, Big Band of Portugal’s Hot Club, and five years in a live television show “Herman Sic” as musician on a resident band. Guto has taught on the master’s degree in jazz interpretation at University of Aveiro and JB Jazz in Lisbon and several workshops and masterclasses in Sweden, Portugal and Brazil.
Nowadays Guto lives in Stockholm, Sweden where he besides his academic path is working as composer, arranger and music teacher. His more remarkable works are two compositions for an exhibition at Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm in 2013, two arrangement for the Cosmopolitan Pops Orchestra of Seattle (USA) recorded in Buenos Aires (Argentina) on the same year, one original composition performed on the opening of the Bergmanveckan (Ingmar Bergman filmfestival) in 2017 in Gotland (Sweden) and as a musical producer at Brasil Cine Stockholm. As arranger he has written for big band, orchestra and wind ensembles for many albums.