WHAT TO EXPECT

• The first-ever collaboration between Brazillian mandolin player Hamilton de Holanda and South African pianist-composer Nduduzo Makhathini

• Amazing views backdrop this global concert

ABOUT THE CONCERT

On Nduduzo Makhathini and Hamilton de Holanda, Brazilian 10-string mandolin (bandolim) wizard Hamilton de Holanda and eminent South African pianist-composer Nduduzo Makhathini, both master musicologists, teachers, composers, and musical storytellers with an ancient-to-future outlook, share a bandstand for the first time, mixing the codes of their respective traditions in a unique exploration of the diaspora of African motherland musical culture to the Americas from the slave trade and colonization until the present day. Hamilton de Holanda—who co-founded the world’s first Choro school in 1997 and spearheaded the movement to give Brazil’s revered vernacular genre a National Day in 2000—transcends limitation in his playing and improvisation, interacting with other music traditions, instruments, and ensembles, including several performances with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Raised in the lush and rugged hillscapes of uMgungundlovu, the site of the mid-19th century Zulu Dingane kingdom where music and ritual practices were symbiotically linked, Nduduzo Makhathini—like de Holanda—plays numerous styles of music from his country; he’s propagated his vision within contemporary South African jazz culture—and internationally via his relationship with Blue Note Records.