Ricardo Bona

Ricardo Bona is an accordionist, music teacher, composer, and a graduate of the University of Sao Paulo (USP). He also studied at the AWM Conservatory with Alvaro Couto, and the Sao Paulo State Music School with Guilherme Ribeiro and Josue dos Santos. Ricardo devotes his life solely to music. He has studied about and played a wide range of musical styles, including choro, forro, musica caipira, sertanejo, classical music, jazz, tango and regional folk music. Ricardo arrived in Australia in August 2017 and has been building his career playing choro, jazz, tango and Brazilian popular music. He attended the Woodford festival in 2017/18/19/20, as well as other festivals in Sydney and Canberra. Recently he was invited to represent Brazilian music at the international accordion festival in Sydney. He also has been playing with Mzaza for two years travelling around Australia. For those interested in deepening their musical knowledge Ricardo Bona offers packages for live and virtual classes of the accordion and piano