Brazilian composer, arranger and 7-string guitarist
Brazilian composer, arranger and 7-string guitarist, Luiz Morais is a unique voice in contemporary Brazilian Jazz and a virtuoso performer. Based in London since 2010, he leads the Luiz Morais Group, forging ahead in creating an innovative and experimental rebirth of the Brazilian musical tradition in a wider landscape of jazz and world music.
Graduated in Brazilian Popular Music from the University of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) in 2010, and completing his MA at Berklee College of Music in 2015, Luiz can count among his teachers great masters of Brazilian guitar such as Mauricio Carrilho and Luis Otávio Braga as well as master Jazz saxophonist Perico Sambeat. Ever deepening his study of arrangement and composition, he is currently a student of the revered Brazilian arranger Vittor Santos.
Gathering the best Brazilian Jazz instrumentalists working in the London scene, Morais leads the Luiz Morais Group, performing in top London venues such as Pizza Express Live, 606 Club, Royal Albert Hall and Crazy Coqs as well as playing in various projects all over the UK and beyond, with Gareth Lochrane, Georgia Mancio and the Adriano Adewale Group amongst others. He is also a founding member of top UK Choro band Alvorada, who in 2019 won ‘Best Band’ at the Focus Brazil awards and ‘Best Brazilian Act’ in the LUKAS awards. In 2020 they were nominees for Songlines Music Award’s ‘Band of the Year’.
