Marco Antonio da Costa is a Brazilian musician based in Viena, Austria. He is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, arranger, composer, band leader. He is very active in the European scene involved in his own projects or as a sideman for high quality artists. Though born and raised in Brazil, Marco Antonio da Costa has many other musical influences as well: Latin Music, Classical and Jazz.
He was born in 1984 in Natal. He specialized himself extensively in the field of jazz and Brazilian music (MPB) completing his musical studies at the Music Conservatory of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) in 2004. Has been living and building a career in Europe since 2008 when he moved to study Jazz Guitar, Composition and Conducting at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz (Austria).
Marco traveled to perform in Europe with many bands, with styles ranging from pop, jazz to latin american music. He also toured around Eastern Europe and Asia working as a musician, composer and arranger in many projects, television shows, musicals and theater projects with different artists and bands as Erwin Schrott, Juan Diego Flores, Karlheinz Miklin, Julia Siedl, HGM Jazz Orchestra Zagreb and Miguel Zenon.

Brazilian Chamber Jazz.

The sound of the duo is a fusion of Marco Antonio da Costas multifaceted guitar playing supporting the delicacy of the powerful yet fragile voice of Laura Lenhardt. Within their compositions beyond jazz and brazilian music, they are playing with the beauty of transparence and sophistication. Sometimes intimate, sometimes melancholic, sometimes energetic.

An ode to the art of duo playing – a dialogue with it’s own form of freedom and complexity. Nearness and space. Opposition and harmony.

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