Sergio Krakowski was born on December 18, 1979 and began playing pandeiro when he was 15 years old. He learned to play informally with friends, but quickly realized the richness of the instrument and began to dedicate himself more seriously to it. He is self-taught and developed his own technique, based on various influences such as Rafael Rabello, Jorginho do Pandeiro and Marcos Suzano.
Freedom of expression is a primary focus in Sergio's musical path. He believes that the pandeiro has even more potenial than has been explored until this point, including the use of polyrhythms. In fact he works on a Pandeiro technique that allows one to play two different voices simultaneously.
Krakowski started his professional career at 18, playing in clubs in Rio de Janeiro with some of the great names in Brazilian music. He dedicated himself to the instrumental Brazilian music style call Choro, where he found the freedom of expression he was looking for.
At 22 Sergio joined the group Tira Poeira and had the opportunity to share the stage with such great names in Brazilian music such as: Maria Bethânia, Lenine, Zélia Duncan, Olivia Hime, Francis Hime, Bnegão and Beth Carvalho. He appeared on TV programs such as: Jô Soares, Altas Horas, e Sem Censura and performed at events such as the TIM Festival and at the Teatro Luis Angel Arango in Bogotá.
In the beginning of the year 2005 Sergio offered a Pandeiro workshop in Montevideo, Uruguay. In October and November of the same year he have given workshops in many cities of Europe such as: Milan, London, Brighton, Montpellier, Perpignan, Amsterdan, Stockholm and Barcelona. In this tour, he had the opportunity to play with great names like Chano Domingues.
Because of the great success he achieved, in 2006 he made another European tour that included also Berlim and Bologna. At this time, he had the opportunity to play with one of the new names in the Italian scene, Cristina Renzetti.
During three and a half year (since 2004) Sergio played weekly with the group Anjos da Lua, whose repetoire consists of classic sambas. In this period, this musical event became undoubtably a reference in the Rio de Janeiro's night scene, changing the musical taste of many young people.
In 2007 Sergio is in Paris, working on his computer music project.
Besides being musician, Sergio Krakowski made his graduate studies and his masters in pure mathematics. Actually he does his PhD at IMPA (www.impa.com), an institute known worldwide.
His PhD focus on developing real-time computer music systems that react to the Pandeiro sound. The goal is to create new forms of music expression. This hard work is done to achieve goals that are unreachable using the actual technology available on the market. Some results can already be watched on video.
Some computer stuff. The first video is from the Odlham Percussion Festival. i did this performance using a real time system developed by me at Sony CSL/Paris. This system is integrated with François Pachet's Continuator system.
The second video has been done by Scott Feiner from pandeiro.com and post processed by Tristan Jehan who was doing his PhD at the MIT at the time.
HOLA!!! Saludos Musicales, Visita mi myspace y podras escuchar un pequeno adelanto de mi proximo trabajo discografico YAOUNDE HI!!!!! Musical Greeting, visit my myspace and you will be able to listen a small preview of my upcoming release YAOUNDE. Mucha Paz, amor y musica Much Peace, Love and Music
Coucou toi ! Comment ca va ? J'ai deux nouveaux morceaux en écoute sur ma page "Miladosi" & "Kabila Swing" Jette un coup d'oreille si t'as le temps et donne moi ton avis Bisous Jo' :)
My gosh, it was so great in Haapavesi! Really hope to get to play with you again, you gave me such an inspiration. Have a nice tour and hope to see you very soon /T
Tô indo pra Portugal com A Barca (primeira viagem além-mar desse meu grupo de mais de 10 anos!!!)A gente tá indo prum festival em Évora,entre 17 e 20/06 e depois vou passar uns 4 dias em Lisboa e volto pro Brasa dia 25/06! E você?...Tá em Paris?...Ou na Itália?... Saudade de fazer um som contigo!!!...Seria bom se rolasse um ensejo,né não?... Bâo...é isso...tâmos aí pelo mundão...hora dessas rola,né mesmo??!... Grande abraço!!!
Alo alo serginho!!!! como ta tudo por aí??? coloquei os videos no youtube com o chico, depois da uma olhadinha! quando colocar o do trio gisbrankowski eu te aviso! o processo é meio lento! :) bjos!!!!
Obrigadão amigo! A vida é boa em Lisboa mas tenho uma saudade de Paris incrível, dos domingos especialemente hehehe... Si tu vas à Lisbonne, appelle!!! Abraço!!!
Obrigado por me adicionar ao seu grupo de amigos.Sua musica é muito apreciada por aqui(Bélgica). Parabens pelo excelente trabalho!!! Espero poder te ver um dia ao vivo, desse lado do Oceano.Aquele abraço Sergio.
