Carlos Malta

Among Brazil’s foremost wind instrumentalists stands Carlos Malta, who launched his professional career at the age of eighteen. During a twelve-year tenure as featured soloist with Hermeto Pascoal, he joined more than thirty international tours that took him to major festivals in Montreal, Cannes, Hamburg, Paris, North Sea, Vancouver, Pori, and Copenhagen. Additional stage partnerships have included Egberto Gismonti, Pat Metheny, Ernie Watts, Gil Evans, Marcus Miller, and Charlie Haden. Malta stepped out as a solo artist in 1993; four years later his groups Coreto Urbano and Pife Muderno appeared at the Free Jazz Festival, an event that drew critical acclaim. In parallel session work he has served as soloist, ensemble player, or arranger for Gal Costa and contributed to the albums Olho de Peixe (Lenine/Marcos Suzano, Velas), Brasileiro (Sérgio Mendes, Polygram), Meia Noite (Edu Lobo, Velas), Catavento e Girassol (Leila Pinheiro, EMI/Odeon), Cheio de Dedos (Guinga, Velas), Sambatown (Marcos Suzano, MPB), Afrosick (Myazawa Kazufumi, EMI/Toshiba), Livro (Caetano Veloso), Hey na na (Paralamas do Sucesso), O dia em que faremos contato (Lenine), and Viva Noel (Ivan Lins), as well as the film scores A Ostra e o Vento (Wagner Tiso), Tieta do Agreste (Caetano Veloso), Guerra de Canudos (Edu Lobo), and Mandacaru (Sérgio Ricardo). Between 1993 and 2000 he issued seven recordings under his own name.