MAESTRO ROBERTO SION'S PROFILE | MUSIC IN THE MCB
Photo: Angela Reze
Roberto Sion is a multi-instrumentalist and started out early on the path of music. At the age of five, he started learning the piano and nine years later, at the age of 14, clarinet and saxophone. Currently, recognized for his celebrated work as a musician and composer, he also learned solfeggio, harmony, choral singing, conducting and composition with the teacher and arranger Damiano Cozzella.
LIFE AND WORK
At 25, Roberto graduated in Psychology, but it was Music that followed. He went to the Berklee School (Boston), where he studied the subjects “arrangement” and “improvisation” and also continued his saxophone studies with professors Joseph Viola, Joe Allard, Ryo Noda and Lee Konitz.
After his return to Brazil, he studied flute with Grace Bush, Antônio Carrasqueira, Keith Underwood, Oliver Toni and other renowned musicians who allowed Roberto to expand his knowledge more and more in order to become a great conductor, as is recognized today.
Over the years, he traveled numerous times to Europe with Vinícius de Moraes and Toquinho and received extremely important criticisms for his career, especially in the last three decades. Recently, a sworn translation by the Japanese consulate in São Paulo described Roberto Sion as one of the most important alto saxophonists in the world.
He founded the Orquestra Jovem Jobim in 2001 and served as principal conductor until 2014. Currently, he is a collaborating composer at OSESP, a doctor of Music at UNICAMP, director and conductor of the Big Band of the Música Cidadania Project (Atibaia) and acts as a soloist for blows.
DISCOGRAPHY
Discover some of the works by maestro Roberto Sion available for online access:
Roberto Sion – After Hours – Amazonas
Sax Happy Hour – Made in Brasil
Toninho Ferragutti and Roberto Sion – Oferenda
Roberto Sion and Maurício Gusmão present: 12 Unpublished Songs
To follow Roberto Sion’s work, keep an eye on the conductor’s social networks:
Instagram | Facebook | SoundCloud | Spotify
About MCB
The Museum of the Brazilian House, an institution of the Secretariat of Culture and Creative Economy of the State of São Paulo, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2020, is dedicated to the preservation and diffusion of the material culture of the Brazilian house, being the only museum in the country specializing in architecture and design. The MCB’s program includes temporary and long-term exhibitions, with an agenda that also includes educational service activities, debates, lectures and publications contextualizing the museum’s vocation for the formation of critical thinking on topics such as architecture, urbanism, housing, economics creativity, urban mobility and sustainability. Among its numerous initiatives, the Design MCB Award stands out, the main segment award in the country held since 1986; and the Casas do Brasil project, to rescue and preserve memory about the rich diversity of living in the country.
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