Born in Rio de Janeiro, he began his violin studies at age five with Paulina D'Ambrosio.
Later he studied with Yair Kless in Israel (Rubin Academy in Jerusalem) and with Andre Gertler in Belgium.
He plays a violin made in 1735 by Domenico Montagnana.
As a producer has created dozens of series of concerts and shows with an educational basis.
Directed and produced music festivals across the country and socially relevant projects for poor communities.
He has been performing since 1985 as first violin of the Bessler (later Bessler-Reis) Quartet, notably in the historical recordings of Villa-Lobos string quartets.
The earlier Quarteto Bessler-Reis consisted of:
Bernardo Bessler, first violin
Michel Bessler, second violin
Christine Springuel, viola
Alceu Reis, celloBessler has performed in Belgium, Spain, Netherlands, France, Germany, Finland, Italy, Denmark, Bolivia, Israel, Canada, Colombia, United States and Japan.
He participated in several recordings alongside dozens of the greatest popular artists of Brazilian music, especially the performances beside Tom Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Egberto Gismonti, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Chico Buarque etc.
and as a soloist in concerts, and DVDs with Jane Duboc, Maria Bethania, Cassia Eller, Marisa Monte, among hundreds of others.Bessler also recorded for tracks for movies, Brazilian soap operas, theater and ballets.
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