TRIO QUINTINA- The trio was born in 1997, but its debut on stage took place only in the following year in a bar named Empório São Francisco, a very popular venue in the group’s native town, Curitiba, southern of Brazil.
Releases its first album “A Caixinha Mágica”, of original songs.
The band’s second album “Ao Vivo Puro”, a two-CD live recording containing a few of the best bits ever produced by the trio on stage as it performed in bars some of Brazilian Popular Music (MPB) greatest hits –, comes out in 2001.
By the end of that year, the group is on tour in South America, taking the beauty of MPB to Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Paraguay. The tour, a fully accomplished self-financed adventure, lasted about three months.
Back home, the group releases its third album “Balaio da Menina”, with 15 new original songs. The CD comes out in April 2002 and by June Quintina is on the road again:
another independent tour in a number of European countries (Spain, France, Holland, Switzerland and Italy), where they performed both in the streets and local venues. An experience that brought them lots of good anecdotes to tell and, moreover, resulted in hundreds of copies of their three albums abroad as well as a warm feedback from the public of those countries during the concerts – the most rewarding answer an artist can expect to his work.
The group releases its fourth album, “Para-dias de chuva”with 15 new original songs, at Teatro da Reitoria in Curitiba.
Celebrating their ten years of activity with a special live performance held at the Centro Cultural da Caixa, in Curitiba, the trio launches a special edition of a DVD remembering their trajectory.
The group releases its fifth album, “Quintina Orquestra Trio”, recorded and produced between 2006 and 2008, this time in partnership with Sete Sóis, an independent record label from São Paulo. It comes out in April, with a concert in São Paulo and two other mini-tours, in Rio (Centro Cultural da Caixa) and, of course, Curitiba (Teatro Paiol).
The group premieres a new show called CYRK – O Circo Musical do Trio Quintina, a musical totally unlike anything the group had created until then and with a scenography specially designed for Teatro Paiol, in Curitiba. In August 2011 the group embarks one new tour of the concert to release a DVD recorded live. It is also later presented in São Paulo at ITAÚ Cultural, at the Winter Festival of Sesc Rio de Janeiro, at Virada Cultural in Curitiba, in 2012, in addition to several other cities the tour encompassed.
On completing 15 years together, the Quintinos celebrate with the launch of a new collection of their original songs, in box format, it contained 2 CDS + 1 DVD: “Trio Quintina – 3 Ciclos”.
From the original idea first scripted by Christian Schwartz, Gabriel and Gustavo’s older brother and former rock band partner, the group creates another musical, “Samba Erudito”this time based on the composer Paulo Vanzolini’s work. With special guests Virgínia Rosa, actress and singer, and Christian Schwartz, and directed by Marcio Abreu and Nadja Naira, the musical was, once again, held at Teatro Paiol.
Launch of the DVD “Trio Quintina Orquestra – Música Brasileira Progressiva”which featured special guests and singers Rubi and Roseane Santos, and mandolin master Daniel Migliavacca.
-Around the same time, the trio carries out three more mini-tours in Europe (2013, 2014 and 2015), through several countries such as France, where they take part in the Paris Choro Club Festival and performing at Toulouse’s House of Choro; Netherlands, with a workshop and performance at the renowned EPM; and England, playing concerts at the London Choro Club, not to mention venues in Switzerland and Germany.
The latest album released by the trio is “Tributo a Billy Blanco” featuring singer Lais Mann, friend and longtime interpreter of this great composer’s work – Blanco was a precursor of bossa nova and one of the milestones in the history of Brazilian Popular Music (MPB).
- In August, they present “Despedida” (Farwell) at Teatro Paiol, the very stage where the group launched their first album – The Magic Box, in 1998 – and a recurrent venue in the trio’s history. That show marked the end of a 20-year cycle of uninterrupted activities. It was just a pause, rather than an actual farwell, as one of its members, Gabriel Schwartz, went to Canada to pursue a master's degree in composition at the University of Montreal.
“Despedida” originated Quintina’s digital release “Reencontro” (Reunion), featuring guests Christian Schwartz, João Marcelo Gomes, Luis Rolim, Roseane Santos and Lais Mann. With this new material, Trio Quintina is reunited and moves on, even from a distance, in a completely different and unimaginable scenario only two years ago.
Tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of the group (TBA).