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Renato Anesi was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1969. From Vila Isabel neighborhood, and from his father, he learned the guitar and the cavaquinho. Playing samba and choro pieces from Noel, Pixinguinha, Jacob do Bandolim, he got familiar with Brazilian repertoire very early. As a teenager he came to study music in São Paulo and, then, started as a profissional musician by the age of 16 years old. He toured Brazil as a guitarist with Geraldo Azevedo in 1986 and 87, and then founded Corda Coral trio, with important interpretations in the instrumental Brazilian scene.
He uses various string instruments: guitar, cavaquinho, mandolin, tenor guitar, Brazilian 10 string viola, requinto...
He was granted by SESC São Paulo in 1995 in the “Som da Demo” contest. His first album was Corda Coral (1996), followed by Rosa dos Tempos (2000) and then “Dez anos depois” (2006).
Invited in many projects, he played with Spanish artist José Luiz Montòn, and they recorded the album "Sin Querer" in Belgium, for French label Auvidis. Also, Renato toured with flamenco dancer Nina Corti, and they presented "Primavera" around Switzerland and Sweden in 1999.
His work was recognized in Brazil in 2001 with “Rumos Itaú Cultural” competition, and in 2004 he won the Syngenta contest for Brazilian 10 string guitar compositions. Also in 2007 he was Best Musician at the Guarulhos Instrumental Music Festival.
He worked in music education with Ventoforte Theater, Degrau school, and gave series of workshops for State Department of Culture São Paulo, SESC and TIM “Música Sem Fronteiras”.
Renato Anesi revisited Brazilian twentieth century instrumental music repertoire and reinstated tenor guitar with the popular strings family. He made people remember the compositions Jacob do Bandolim wrote for it.
He has already played with Vitor Biglione, Gilson Peranzzeta, Zeca Assumpção, Yamandú Costa, Paulo Belinatti, Hamilton de Holanda and Mestre Zé Paulo, among others. And participated in recordings and gigs with artists like Zé Geraldo, Tom Zé, Passoca, Chico Saraiva, Jose Luis Montòn, Brian Silber, Goran Ivanovic, Andreas Kapsalis, Claudio Nucci, Toquinho, Tião Carvalho, Zeli Silva and others.
In 2010 he was invited to play at the Chicago Guitar Festival, then toured into four American states. And in 2012 he came to live in Chicago, playing in various contexts of jazz and world music like Jazz Showcase, Mayne Stage, Kingston Mines...
Renato Anesi had two compositions recorded with American musician Brian Silber in the album BRAZILIANT, and then in 2014 formed his own trio with Ernie Adams (drums) and Jack Zara (bass). And they started to play many places around American midwest, showcases, jazz clubs, festivals.
Back in Brazil, he has been playing at the SESC circuit, Ibirapuera Auditorium and “Chorando sem Parar” festival (São Carlos-SP). He recorded a new album “RENATO ANESI, TENOR GUITAR IN CONCERT" in 2017, and played in a collective work called “Integridade” with Lenine, Menescal and Zelia Duncan.
Famous guitarists in Brazil are expressing good impressions on his new phase:
“Renato Anesi inaugurates the new era for the tenor guitar” (Paulo Belinatti).
“Renato Anesi is the direct heir from Garoto, reinventing the technique of playing tenor guitar” (Paulo PortoAlegre)
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