Collab, the duo album from Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Brazilian choro mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda, is a sparkling collaboration between two contemporary masters of rhythm and ...

Virtuosic, brilliant and unique – those are some of the adjectives used to describe this musician who sets world audiences ablaze, developing a career studded with awards. Hamilton de Holanda uses the ...

Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of the mandolin. However, there’s a player out there who is about to change my mind–Hamilton de Holanda. The mandolin has a higher-pitched, kind of thinner sound ...

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Stefano Bollani (left) and Hamilton de Holanda hit the high notes in a complementary turn.Marcos Portinari Some musicians play with their eyes closed and faces frozen in concentration, some are more ...

If Brasilianos 2 was a racer, it would have unleashed its turbo rocket boosters early to get ahead of the pack, only to cool off and found its right tempo at the end. While all of the songs by the ...

Great young Brazilian instrumentalists, guitarist Yamandu Costa and mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda play their own pieces, explosively encompassing a wide range of Brazilian music on their album, ...

There aren't many ECM albums that mix live-audience rapture with solemnity-mocking jokes from the performers, but label boss Manfred Eicher won't feel he is risking his revered company's credibility ...

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Twice nominated for the Latin Grammy, he is a virtuosic and brilliantly innovative player of the bandolim. a flat-backed, almost round-bodied mandolin, usually with four double strings. He’s virtually ...