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Professional Musician Performer (Electric or Acoustic Guitar-Mandolin).
Producer for Jingles, Singers/Songwriters.
Federico is an exceptional performer and team player. Highly skilled multi instrumentalist who can read and learn quickly. He also has great knowledge of tone and style for multiple genres.
Price Range: Contact for rates
Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
FEDERICO COSTA is a Guitarist, Arranger and Composer (Mandolin and Vocals as secondary instruments), born in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Education:
-Professional Musician - EMC (Argentina) – Berklee International Network
-Audio Production and Live Sound - IMS (Uruguay)
-Brazilian Popular Music - Curitiba Music Office (Brazil)
-Composition - EUMUS (Uruguay - UDELAR)
-First Certificate in English Approved (University Of Cambridge)
Career/Important facts:
His First project “Tremebunda” (2008) Recorded a Jazz-Candombe Demo and played at various theaters around Uruguay. At that time, he also recorded an album with “Grupo Simpleza” as a Classical Guitarist and Arranger.
The group was invited to the Mercedes Jazz Festival.
Federico has been the Musical Director of one of the most important Jazz Jam Sessions in Montevideo since 2010. The Shannon Irish Pub Jam Session tributes the great Jazz composers every Monday night in Montevideo city (link hidden)
He had experienced playing in Candombe (Afro-Uruguayan musical style) formations in the Montevideo Carnival for 3 years with Yambo Kenya and Mi Morena (2009/10/11), who have won several state awards for Best Musical Band
Federico worked as Backing Track Music Producer for NeoMusic Productions (Argentina) in 2010. Also, he worked as Session Musician for Jingle producing companies: Mezcal Productions (link hidden), Pink Noise Productions and for CeroDB as Jingle Musical Producer (link hidden).
As a professor, he has been the Harmony and Guitar teacher at Escuela de Musica Montevideo in 2012/13, also dictates private lessons since 2002.
From his work as a sideman he recorded and played live with some important artists as Pitufo Lombardo, Tabaré Cardozo and Claudio Martínez.
In the Uruguayan-Folk field, he recorded and played with Matices group with which toured almost every popular scenario of the Uruguayan departments.
Also performed and recorded with various cover bands: John Fisher´s Band (Country/Rockabilly), Ache Quintet (Funk/Reggae formation), Funcosos (Pop/Funk), The Beatles Forever Band (Beatles Tribute), and Fermata (Chorus/Big Band Orquestra).
As a Solo artist has recorded an LP and performed live since 2014. Federico´s solo work includes all original arrangements and compositions, in which involves more than 10 musicians including String Quartet, Brass Trio, Brazilian Choro strings, typical Folk Uruguayan drums, and other Latin-American Percussion Instruments
In the Brazilian music field, he recorded, composed, arranged and produced the latest album of La Chorona (first choro band in Uruguay, since 2003). This project involves blending music of the Rio de La Plata with "Choro" instrumentation, featuring Hugo Fattoruso, Nicolás Arnicho and Grupos Sonantes (String Orchestra). This project also recorded a live DVD with original arrangements of traditional Chorinhos in 2013
He received a Best Candombe Composition MEC Award (2015 Uruguay´s Culture Ministry)
Concerning the Classical Music field, he participated as Mandolin player with the Governmental Symphonic Orchestra: “SODRE”.
His latest work is as a Composer/Arranger/Producer of “Dual”. The Jazz-Fusion Band single is coming out in 2017.
Currently Federico is a Showband Guitarist for Carnival Cruise Line performing Pop, Rock, Funk Jazz and Production Shows, which has been rated number 1 in the fleet during 2016
Arrangements Portfolio:
Edited Discography:
As A Sideman:
Tabaré Cardozo – Malandra (2014) / Montevideo Music Group
Pepe Canedo y Patricia Ligia – Guanaco (2015) / Bizarro
Edu Lombardo – Ilustrados y Valientes (2012) / Montevideo Music Group
Matices – 10 Años (2012) - Live DVD - Sala Zitarrosa
Matices – Sigue Mi Camino (2010)
As Producer/Composer/Arranger:
Fede Costa – Fede Costa (2014) / Perro Andaluz
La Chorona Uruguay – A Chorar Al Cuartito (2015) / Perro Andaluz
La Chorona Uruguay – En Vivo en La Experimental (2013) DVD
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