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His name appears on over 50 CD‚s
and he has performed in Brasil, US, Europe and Israel. He has
performed and/or recorded with artists like João Bosco, Ivan Lins, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lisa Ono, Milton Nascimento,
Edú Lobo, Cassia Eller, Jerzy Milewski, Baby do Brasil,
Zélia Duncan, Paulo Moura, Toninho Horta, Antonio
Adolfo, Carlos Malta, Nivaldo Ornelas, Ana Caram, Tim Maia,
Mauricio Einhorn, Leila Pinheiro, Wagner Tiso, Carlos Lyra and many others. In 2001 he was awarded
the „Bolsa Virtuose” schoolarship under the
auspices of Ministério da Cultura/Brazil and joined the
BMI Jazz Composers Workshops. As part of that program he
studied both privately and in group with master arrangers Manny
Albam, Jim McNeely and Michael Abene.
As an educator, Nelson has taught for 12
years at the Universidade Estácio de Sá - Rio de
Janeiro, Brasil - and has taught clinics on Brazilian guitar at
the IAJE /2001 (International Association of Jazz Educators)-
New York-US, University of South California - Los Angeles-US,
San Francisco State University – San Francisco-US, Guitar
Institute of Technology - Los Angeles-US, Göteborgs
Universitat - Goteborg - Sweden, Manhattan School of Music -
New York-US, Berklee College of Music - Boston -US,
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto-Brasil, ABEM -
Associação Brasileira de Educação
Musical Rio de Janeiro-Brasil, Curso Internacional de
Verão de Brasília-Brasil, Oficina de MPB de
Curitiba, Brasil.
Nelson Faria has four CD titles under his
name: Ioiô (Perfil musical, 1993, Beatles,
a Brazilian Tribute -w/ pianist
José Namen (solo music, 1998), Janelas Abertas - w/
singer Carol Saboya (Lumiar discos, 1999) and Três/Three - w/ bassist Nico Assumpção and
drummer Lincoln Cheib (Combo Music, 2000). He has written three
educational books: A arte da
improvisação (Lumiar Ed.1991), The
Brazilian Guitar Book (Sher Music
Co. 1995) and Escalas, Arpejos e acordes
para violão e guitarra
(Lumiar Ed.1999); and the instructional video Toques de Mestre
(“Touch of a Master” - Giannini SA, 1990). He also
performed on the instructional video Secrets of Brazilian Music and on the book Brazilian
Music Workshop by Antonio
Adolfo.
