Hamilton de Holanda, born in Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of São Cristóvão

1976
* Born in Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of São Cristóvão, Hamilton de Holanda Vasconcelos Neto, son of José Américo and Iélva Nídia of Pernambuco.
1977
* His family moved to Brasilia, the new Capital of Brazil.
1979
* It is encouraged by his father to sing sambas and play 'musical toys'.
1981
* Got his first musical instrument, a melodica.
* Your first presentation is the Clube do Choro de Brasília, playing melodica, his brother Fernando Cesar - fellow music and life - the ukulele and his father - his master - the guitar.
* Win a Christmas present from his grandfather Hamilton the first bandolin. The first song I learned to play the new instrument was "Flor Amorosa ', Joaquim Calado.
1982
* Make your first gig playing bandolin in the group formed by his brother Cesar, 7-string guitar, his father with the ukulele and Pernambuco do Pandeiro.
* Pernambuco available for fostering the brothers and the group is now called 'Two Gold' group with which Hamilton did most of their presentations to the 22 years of age.
* That same year, participates in several TV shows in the capital, including the Children's 'Carousel', and the local 'Brasília Urgent'.
1983
* Along with the informal learning of the wheels of crying, Hamilton studied at the School of Music of Brasilia and begins to learn the violin and the traditional Japanese Suzuki method.
* Participate in a spectacle in honor of Waldir Azevedo, the Teatro Nacional, Sala Villa-Lobos, directed by Klécius Caldas, where he met great musicians, but also set Altamiro Carrilho and young Nilze Carvalho.
* With Two Gold, makes his first appearance outside of Brasilia Program Four (video), Globo.
* Begins his study with the professor of music / guitar Everaldo Pinheiro. At this time, the city of Brasilia was not a professor of mandolin, so Hamilton has studied other instruments, always applying their learning to the small mandolin. In your home, what else plays on the phonograph disks are Jacob, Deo Rian, Pixinguinha, Tom Jobim and Joao Gilberto, and the great American orchestras.
* Join a great show in honor of Jacob do Bandolin, the Teatro Nacional, Sala Villa-Lobos, directed by Klécius Caldas, where he meets major bandolinistas as Ronaldo's Mandolin (with all the Golden Age) and Armandinho, the latter reference final to the then boy Hamilton.
* Make more room Funarte shows in Brasilia and in other theaters of the city with the Group Two Golden.
1985
* Participates in Project Pixinguinha in Brasilia. After this presentation is invited to play in the Project Pixingão, Room Funarte Sidney Miller, Rio de Janeiro. His "Two of Gold" divide the stage with the set of Pernambuco Choro, Dalva musician and miner Torres Nivaldo Ornellas. On this occasion knows Radames Gnatalli and Raphael Rabello.
* Travels to Cachoeira do Campo, Minas Gerais, making the show with two Gold and also playing in the historic town of Mariana.
1986
* With Choro & Cia is awarded the Best 'Group Crying', the Festival of Goiania.
* Shows Funarte-Brasilia.
* In his first composition 'Chorinho pra Pernambuco'.
* Starts studying guitar with Paulo André Tavares. Hamilton had definite lessons to your life as a musician, especially in the field of harmony. Thereafter, the young musician has not only think about music as a 'player of melodies'. Opens a window through which he can now see the top 3 musical elements more clearly: melody, rhythm and harmony.
1989
* Together with his friends Edward and Julian, as the rock group 'The Pizza Delivery, "which played at meetings in his family and the ballroom of Block I of SQS 103. The repertoire, Rock Nacional. At that time, Hamilton was playing bass with the band, but continued to study music and the wheels, always used to playing the traditional repertoire of crying, and also things Cartola, Ataulfo Alves, Nelson Cavaquinho, among many other great composers Brazilians.
1990
* This year, Hamilton is taken by a passion for music of Joao Gilberto. Know the complete discography of John, listen to infinite times, to the point of taking each chord that the master of bossa nova touches.
1991
* At school, in Brasilia, as the band 'Left Ball' with Alex and friends Oswaldo education that would later grow with the addition of Jorjão, Jomba and equity Duckling. The repertoire, MPB Djavan, Gil, Caetano and the like.
1992
* In July, part of a show celebrating the 50-year career of flute Carlos Poyares. At that time shares the stage, among others, with his brother Fernando César, Pixinguinha, Deo Rian, Orlando Silveira Chesky Records, which has always been one of its major references as a musician. Raphael started playing Wow and transcends borders.
* Then at 17, passes through a turning point in his professional life, this decision is not final. Through the influence thoughts and behavior of society in general, choose to tryout for a course that could - according to a conservative thought and even fearful - give them food and keep the music only as a hobby. Moves to accounting ... ... ... ... ...
* Know the mandolin Ceará-Rio Jorge Cardoso. A round of crying in Fortaleza, the teenager Hamilton is impressed with Jorge playing. It was an important passage in your life.
1994
* But of course it was a moment of realization and certainty. 1 year of study at the School of Accountancy was enough for Hamilton to meet and to let go of a pre-condition with established society that live music is very difficult. Hamilton is more music every day.
1995
* The important thing is that this year 95 Hamilton locked the course and passed the entrance exam at the University of Brasilia, for Bachelor's Degree in Composition.
* Another important event in his career: it takes an unprecedented way 5 songs (3 his 1, his father and brother, and 1 flute Leonardo Miranda) to the end of the II Festival de Choro do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Among the 12 finalists 'Destroçando the cassava' wins second place and Hamilton comes out as the 'Best Performer' Festival.
* Enter the UnB and now his musical universe grows with each passing day. As part of the course curriculum of composition, Hamilton is more intimate repertoire of music called 'classical'. Among the composers who most fascinate are Villa-Lobos, Debussy, Shostakovich and, of course, Bach. Among his teachers are: Bohumil Med, Ricardo Dourado, Jorge Antunes, Mercia and Sergio Pinto Nogueira, this, in its final training as a composer. Since the beginning of the course, fuels the idea of finalizing the formal studies composing a Concerto for Bandolin and Orchestra.
1997
* Releases the album with the Group Two Golden called 'Destroçando the cassava'. At this time, the Two Golden consisted of Hamilton, Caesar, Americo, Francisco de Assis, Beto and Cunca, with the participation of Evander Barcellos e Alencar 7 strings. In the show's launch, hit the record crowd of Theater of Banking in Brasilia, in a show was attended by Armandinho, Dirceu Leite and Paulo do Pandeiro.
From 1998 to 1999
* The Group Two Golden has a reputation for excellence that made him critical acclaim and public in their own city, Brasilia. Rarity in music. (Typically, the holy house is not a miracle, you need to leave home and go out.) This is due thanks to a few things: the vocation of the city for that - public, journalists, musicians, ordinary people - the cycle of pupils Hamilton had the Clube do Choro de Brasília, the talent of the brothers, and anything else that can not be explained ... ...
* One more launch of Two Gold (with Hamilton, Caesar, Americo, Leander Motta, Sandro Araújo, Rogério Caetano, André Vasconcellos), the CD 'The new face of the old cry', title of journalist Irlam Rocha Lima. At one time, the disk is subject to the "Gazeta Mercantil" as a blockbuster. In Stores network 2001/Gabriela Records, "sells more than Disk Rolling Stones'.
* Starts a partnership with the great guitar player, always a source of inspiration, Marco Pereira. Marco was instrumental in the career development of Hamilton. With him, made his first two international trips in the year 98 and 99 for Venezuela and France. Marco also opens the door to Hamilton in Rio de Janeiro, the music market, and also that of your home.
* Study the Concerto for Bandolin and Orchestra Radames Gnatalli with Joel Nascimento.
* Join the I Prize Visa MPB Instrumental. It placed third and the prize of the audience.
* 'The new face of the old cry' is chosen album of the year by the newspaper Correio Braziliense.
* In Brasilia, opened the first school of Brazil Choro: 'Brazilian School of Choro Raphael Rabello'. Hamilton is a teacher-founders and the first coordinator of the school.
* Hermeto Pascoal becomes a reference constant.
* Switches to hear more often the Jazz. The repertoire of Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, George Benson is already part of their hearings.
* This year, so natural and spontaneous, Hamilton begins to offer a new opportunity to play the mandolin. The cry is no longer the only way to express their art. It is a very important year. His compositions no longer can be classified into one style. He's already thinking about having an instrument that enables the realization of their musical ideas 'orchestral'. Fluency in improvisation is increasingly noticeable.
* Together with friends Rogério Caetano and Daniel Santiago, creates the "Brasilia Brazil," a trio that has proposed to Brazilian instrumental music avant-garde. At that time, they rehearsed nearly every day, all day, in search of a language that could really be called avant-garde art.
* Through the friend Daniel Santiago, knows the music deeper mining. If you love the music of Milton Nascimento.
From 2000 to 2005
* In a phone call to the luthier Virgil Lee, Hamilton makes the following request: 'Virgil, I need a new instrument. Get the size of my 8 strings, divided by 4, multiply by 5 and the compensation that makes you feel necessary. We will try to reach the ideal measure of 10-string bandolin. Please do with wood roaches, if by chance, we do not like the damage is not great '. In 3 months the 10-string bandolin was ready, and what was to be a prototype, turned his official instrument.
* It makes a super show at the Free Jazz Festival in Rio and Sao Paulo. His group was formed by Fernando César, Americo, Rogério Caetano, Leander Motta, Sandro Araújo, Hamilton Pinheiro.
* Launches the disks: Strings of Light, with Marco Pereira; Abre Alas, with the Brasilia Brazil (for the record label Velas); Two Gold, with his brother Fernando César (Pau Brazil).
* The Two Golden crosses borders and touches the Arts Alive Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa
* In December, Hamilton performs the show 'Three is too much' (see video in multimedia) with Marco Pereira and wizard Hermeto Pascoal.
* Make a special disk 'Beth Carvalho canta Nelson Cavaquinho' for Bandolin and Orchestra. Becomes the first Brazilian mandolinist to write a musical work of this importance.
* Wins the Nobel unanimously Icatu-Hartford Arts as the best musician of Brazil. Win a scholarship and a special accommodation at the Cité International des Arts in Paris for 1 year.
* In 2002 farewell to France, made a historic show in the city of Santos, São Paulo, in Brazil (listen below).
* This was a very important year in the life of Hamilton. Lives alone in Paris. Learn about another culture, learn other languages, make new friends. Alone that Hamilton was definitively developed the technique of playing the bandolin strings 10.
* Throw the disc 'Hamilton de Holanda', recorded for Velas. On this album, recorded with various configurations, which was already an embryo of the quintet.
* In the same disk, writes the classic 'Vibrations' Jacob's Mandolin with the Conjunto Época de Ouro.
* In a partnership with Marcos Portinari and the National Assembly (Shopping GMT), performs the victorious project 'Culture in Premium Set ". Project that brings together poetry, music sung and instrumental music. (photos: Zélia Duncan and Tuca Andrada / João Bosco and Danielle Winits / Leticia Sabatella, Jorge Vercilo and Dudu Nobre / Matheus Nachtergale)
* Travel over 15 countries with his bandolin.
* In Brazil, traveling from north to south releasing his records.
2006 to 2009
* His quartet becomes quintet, now with the harmonica player Gabriel Grossi. With the quintet launches the disc 'Brasilianos' (Biscuit Fine / Brasilianos). The disc is a kind of manifesto for the new instrumental music made by young Brazilian musicians.
* Hamilton devotes more and more activity as a composer.
* Launches the discs 'Samba Airplane' (Kind of Blue), distributed in Europe, with the participation of French accordionist Richard Galliano, New Words / New words (Adventure Music), with mandolinist Mike Marshall, distributed in the U.S.
* It makes a big national tour for the CD Brasilianos, sponsored by Natura.
* Goes on with the project 'Culture Together Premium', in Brasilia. (photos: Camila Pitanga / Alexandre Pires, Letícia Spiller / Maria Bethania) Writes bonuses CD / DVD João Bosco (Obrigado Gente), Ivan Lins (Acariocando) and Flávio Venturini.
* The special guest Mike Marshall and David Grisman's "Mandolin Symposium in California, with the presence of 200 bandolinistas the world.
* Together with Richard Galliano, touches on some of the most important festivals in Europe, as the 'Jazz in Marciac' and Jazz Festival in Paris.
* With the quintet, is show in history WOMEX in Seville.
* Does tour in Italy.
* In Brasilia, the show is celebrating 25 years of Two Gold.