The group features the Brazilian musicians Fabiano Silveira, Gabriel Schwartz and Gustavo Schwartz. It might sound obvious to have three elements forming a musical trio, but Quintina was actually born as five: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, flute, percussion and vocals. Essentially, the name “TRIO QUINTINA” – (QUINTUPLET TRIO) - intends to express the idea of 5 in 3 multiplicity. That was back in 1997. Today, as the trio looks and moves always forward, they have become eight: seven-string acoustic guitar, electric guitar, “cavaquinho” (a genuinely Brazilian instrument), flute, saxophone, clarinet, percussion and vocals. All instruments performed by the three musicians.
Quintina’s repertory is based on various Brazilian rhythms such as o samba, baião, xote, choro, afoxé, frevo, among others, often allied to their contemporary world music influences. It begins with the “sambas” by Noel Rosa and Cartola, meets Gilberto Gil’s and Caetano Veloso’s “tropicália”, grows even richer in the insuperable oeuvre by Chico Buarque, not to mention other outstanding Brazilian artists also present in the group’s setlist, such as Adoniran Barbosa, Baden Powel, João Bosco, Pixinguinha and Jacob do Bandolim. Alongside this enjoyable selection of Brazilian popular music classics, all of them reinterpreted by the trio, the group also shows its own musical identity on stage, performing a large repertory of original songs that are recorded in six CDs and three DVDs.
