The musical project of maestro Hugo Sanbone entitled "Horizons” consists in presenting the mixture between jazz individualities and the aesthetics of Afro- Brazilian music that evolved in the city of Salvador of Bahia.
Maestro Hugo Sanbone is a composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist, and musical director with a charismatic and innovative style. A virtuoso in the trombone and accordion, Maestro Sanbone comes out of the top crop of the exciting music scene of Bahia, Brazil. He has worked as a session player for some of the country’s most prominent artists, such as Ivete Sangalo and Carlinhos Brown. Maestro Hugo Sanbone is developing his first opera based on the African-Brazilian mythology of Yemanjá, a major water spirit from the Yoruba religion. She is an orisha: the spirit of rivers and oceans.