Orquestra Urbana is a Brazilian jazz orchestra founded and directed by Rafael Piccolotto de Lima in São Paulo, bringing together musicians connected to contemporary Brazilian music, jazz, orchestral writing, and large ensemble performance.

 

The ensemble was created as a platform for original compositions, arrangements, collaborative productions, and contemporary projects involving Brazilian musical traditions, improvisation, orchestral textures, and jazz ensemble practices. Its work includes performances, recordings, artistic collaborations, and projects developed with guest soloists, composers, arrangers, and instrumentalists from Brazil and abroad.

 

Combining influences from Brazilian music, jazz orchestration, concert music, and contemporary large group writing, Orquestra Urbana functions both as a performing ensemble and as a creative laboratory for new artistic productions, arrangements, and collaborative musical experimentation.