We are very excited to present our first concert of the 2026 Season —join us this January 24th for a recital with the Brazilian duo Gabi and Edu!
Gabriele Leite and Eduardo Gutterres are award-winning musicians, cherished members of the NYC classical guitar scene, and we’re incredibly lucky to open our season with their concert. They’ve prepared a vibrant program featuring Brazilian classics, arrangements, and even some original compositions.
We’ll be hosting this event at Christ Church, Cobble Hill, and we can’t wait to fill the space with familiar faces and new friends alike.
Don’t miss this concert! Here are the details:
🎸 Saturday, January 24
🎸 Doors: 6:30 PM | Music: 7:00 PM
🎸 Location: Christ Church, Cobble Hill — 326 Clinton St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
🎸 Tickets: $30 BKCGS | $40 General Admission
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If you have any questions, feel free to reach out at hello@bkcgs.org. We hope to see you in Brooklyn as we begin another great year of concerts, community, and classical guitar.
About the Artists
Gabriele Leite and Eduardo Gutterres are multi-awarded Brazilian guitarists based in New York City since September 2021. Their concerts, entirely dedicated to Brazilian composers, include works written for two guitars, original compositions by Eduardo and Gabriele, as well as their own arrangements of iconic Brazilian pieces, such as Wave by Tom Jobim.
Most recently, they were invited to perform at the United Nations during the 2025 General Assembly. In December 2024, they performed at Teatro Cultura Artística in São Paulo, one of Brazil’s most prestigious venues, as part of the theater’s reopening season following renovations after a 2009 fire. In September 2023, they won the Vienna International Classic Strings Competition (Chamber Music Category) in Austria. They traveled to Europe with a sponsorship by the Instituto Guimarães Rosa, the Brazilian governmental organization promoting cultural diplomacy abroad.
In 2019, they received individually the prestigious Magda Tagliaferro Scholarship, awarded by Sociedade Cultura Artística to twelve promising young Brazilian artists, marking the beginning of their collaboration as a duo. In 2021, they won the Lilian Fuchs Chamber Music Competition in New York with their performance of Suíte Retratos by Radamés Gnattali.
Since then, they have performed at internationally renowned events, including the opening concert of the United Nations Security Council Meeting (2022), the Brazil-United States Chamber of Commerce’s Person of the Year 2023, and Brazil Week, organized by Citigroup. In 2023, they were selected to participate in the Aspen Music Festival with a full scholarship covering tuition, housing, and board.
Gabriele and Eduardo are endorsed by Augustine Strings (New York, USA).
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Gabriele Leite was included in the Forbes Brasil 30 Under 30 in 2021 and has received the Young Revelation Award from Concerto magazine, the Hubert Kuppel Prize in Germany, among others. She has just released her second album, Gunûncho, featuring works exclusively by female composers, including original compositions by Gabriele. Her first album, Territórios (2024), also on the same Brazilian label Rocinante, features Brazilian composers such as Sérgio Assad, Edino Krieger and others. Gabriele holds a Master’s degree with Honors from the Manhattan School of Music, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Musical Performance at Stony Brook University.
Eduardo Gutterres has received numerous awards, including Young Musicians Award from CitiGroup Brazil (2024), and the 1st prize in the Eisenberg-Fried Concerto Competition (2022). He has collaborated with the Brazilian streaming platform ZapMusic on the documentary Guitar Around the World, highlighting the life of a young Brazilian musician in New York. Gutterres is endorsed by Augustine Strings and serves as the host of their Wind Up podcast, where he interviews guitarists. He is currently a Doctoral of Musical Arts candidate at the Manhattan School of Music, where he also teaches Chamber Music. He holds a Master of Music with two commencement awards from the Manhattan School of Music and a Bachelor of Music with honors from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).