presents
UI World Music Celebration
2021 Exploring Cultures Through Music
Friday, February 19, 2021
7:30 p.m.
Haddock Hall
Featuring
Eduardo Mendonça
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Please silence all electronic devices. UI World Beat Ensemble The use of all recording devices and cameras is strictly prohibited. Jazz Band I LHSOM String Quartet
Lionel Hampton School of Music http://uidaho.edu/class/music [email protected] 208-885-6231
PROGRAM
Guru Mantra ...... Navin Chettri Vejo A Baiana...... Eduardo Mendonça (b.1972)
Giselle Hillyer, first violin Blue Rio ...... Eduardo Mendonça Olivia Dow, second violin Hugo Weyand, viola Miranda Wilson, cello Evergreen Samba...... Eduardo Mendonça Navin Chettri, vocals and tabla Eduardo Mendonça, guitar and vocals Samba Batucada ...... Traditional Brazilian Kate Skinner, piano Arr. Navin Chettri Josh Skinner, bass Eduardo Mendonça Navin Chettri, drums Navin Chettri UI World Beat Ensemble Fiera De Mangaio / Ai Que Saudade D’ocê ...... Sivuca / Vital Farias director, Barry Bilderback (b.1930/b.1943) Eduardo Mendonça, guitar and vocals Baião Sem Nome ...... Eduardo Mendonça Adrian Crookston, accordion (b.1960) Kate Skinner, piano Arr. Vern Sielert Josh Skinner, bass Navin Chettri, drums Eduardo Mendoça Navin Chettri UI Jazz Band I director, Vern Sielert
Samba De Uma Nota So ...... Antônio Carlos Jobim and Newton Mendonça (b.1927/b.1927) Eduardo Mendoça, guitar and vocals
Asa Branca ...... Luiz Gonzaga and Humberto Teixeira
Eduardo Mendoça, guitar and vocals Adrian Crookston, accordion Navin Chettri, tabla
For more information: 208-885-6231 or email: [email protected]
GUEST ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
EDUARDO MENDONÇA (menDONsa)
Eduardo Mendonça has played, composed, and directed various genres of Brazilian popular music in the US, Canada, Nepal and Brazil since 1974. Eduardo has performed for many notable personalities, including the 14th Dalai Lama, Pope John Paul II, and former South Africa President Nelson Mandela, and he was featured in the PBS American Masters documentary, Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time.
In May 2016, Eduardo performed as a guest artist with the jointly sponsored Seattle Symphony-Carnegie Hall project “Link Up: The Orchestra Moves,” exploring the creative process of this passionate composer through melody and motif. A naturalized US citizen, this multi-talented performer graduated in Arts Education and former K-12 High School principal in Brazil, is a much sought after artist-in- residence and master class instructor recommended by the Washington State Arts Commission for lectures, workshops, and school assemblies.
Eduardo is CEO, President and Co-Founder for Brazil Center and BrasilFest, Co-Director for Brazil Arts & Education, DBA: Show Brazil!; and the Music Director for iBuildBridges Foundation from Washington D.C. In recognition for the celebration for 20 years of BrasilFest, in 2018 Eduardo was mentioned in proclamation letters from City of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan; and from Jay Inslee, Washington State Governor.
Eduardo Mendonça traces his lineage to a royal African family bearing the hereditary title of Mamabeka ("prophet of the royal court"), as documented by the Instituto Geográfico e Histórico da Bahia.
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