- 9original
albums - 28countries on
4 continents - 2017Montreux Jazz Piano
Competition, finalist - 2025Latin Grammy
with the Hamilton de Holanda Trio
“Salomão Soares’s piano is in the same vein as Egberto Gismonti’s and André Mehmari’s.”
Música Terra · Japan
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Solo piano
Watch
“Caboclinho Armorial”, composed by Salomão, from the album Interior: solo piano on the stage of the Theatro Pedro II in Ribeirão Preto.
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Roots
“Rhythm, to me, is the soul of Brazilian music.”
Salomão Soares
Bringing to the piano the Northeastern music he grew up with: that is the thread running through all of his work. He started out as a child on keyboard, playing at village dances in Cruz do Espírito Santo, a small town in Paraíba, in Brazil’s Northeast.
Photo: Matheus Urenha
New album · 2025
Outros Ventos
Salomão Soares & Vanessa Moreno
Voice and piano in reinterpretations of classics of Brazilian song, from Gilberto Gil to João Bosco, with Chico César as a guest. The duo’s third album, named by Billboard Brasil one of the best Brazilian albums of 2025.
Around the world
Twenty-eight countries
From Lincoln Center to the Berlin Philharmonie, from Japan to South Africa: the stages this piano has played.
What they say
“When I compose my music, I imagine what you’ve done here.”
Hermeto Pascoal · on Interior
“With this album, Salomão Soares creates a new way of representing Brazilian rhythms on the piano: a New Brazilian Piano that brings many percussive ideas into sensational grooves, echoing the original rhythms with precision and subtlety.”
Léa Freire · composer and arranger · on the album Interior
“Salomão Soares demonstrates, with this album, everything that makes a musician unique.”
Mário Laginha · on Espirais
“…an imaginative improviser whose sound bridges classical, jazz, and the vibrant traditions of Brazil’s northeast.”
Brazilian Nites · USA · on the Hamilton de Holanda Trio
School
Off stage, Salomão teaches Brazilian piano.
Five online courses, in Portuguese with English subtitles: rhythm, chord reading, harmony, reharmonization and improvisation.
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