Leandro César da Silva is a highly innovative Brazilian musician and instrument builder. He has worked with Brazilian experimental music group UAKTI maintaining their custom built instruments and working as a sound technician during tours throughout Brazil, the US and Europe. Leandro studied guitar performance, bassoon and arrangement at the CEFAR Artistic Education Center in Minas Gerais. He has worked as a composer and arranger with a vast array of respected Brazilian musicians. In recent years Leandro has researched the construction of marimbas, using a wide range of materials, and has subsequently formed the Marimbaia ensemble who perform new arrangements of established Brazilian composers such as Egberto Gismonti and Marco Antônio Guimarães.
Leandro César da Silva
