Sarau

at the Cultural Room of the Embassy of Brazil in Oslo

NORWAY AND BRAZIL, FRIENDSHIP AND CULTURAL CONNECTIONS

Friday, January 22, 2016 18:00

PROGRAM

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A Embaixada do Brasil em Oslo agradece a participação e

colaboração de todos para a realização desse evento!

Evento realizado no Espaço Cultural da Embaixada do Brasil em Oslo. Organizado pela Senhora Maria Luíza Cestari com o apoio institucional do Setor Cultural da Embaixada do Brasil em Oslo.

Músicos :

Ricardo Dourado Freire, clarineta Isa Carolina Holmesland, violino e viola Andre Freire, violoncelo

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Programa

18:00 Abertura da noite com algumas palavras do Senhor Embaixador Flávio Helmold Macieira Introdução do Sarau por Maria Luíza Cestari

18:30 Wolfang A. Mozart (Salzburg, 17561756---- Viena, 1791) Divertimento E-Dur, Kv. 563 (1788) Allegro Adagio Allegro (Bergen, 18431843----1907)1907) Lyriske Stykker – Lyric Pieces, Op. 12 (1866/1867) N. 2 – Vals – Valse N. 3 – Albumblad – Album Lief N. 7 – Norsk – Norwegian Alberto Nepomuceno (, 18641864---- , 1920) Prece – Pray, Op. 1 N. 1 (1877) Heitor VillaVilla----LobosLobos (1887(1887----1959)1959) Chôros N. 1 (1920) Luiz Americano (Aracaju, 19001900---- Rio de Janeiro, 1960) Sorriso de Cristal – Cristal smile (1953) Jacob do Bandolim (Rio de Janeiro, 19181918----1969)1969) Santa Morena (1954)

19:00 Perguntas e respostas com participação do público

21:00 Encerramento

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SHORT BIOGRAPHIES

Ricardo Dourado Freire was born in Brasilia, Brazil. He studied clarinet at the University of Brasilia with Luiz Gonzaga Carneiro, and completed his masters and doctoral studies at Michi- gan State University under the guidance of Dr. Elsa Verdehr. His doctoral dis- sertation entitled “History and Development of the Clarinet in Brazil ” is a land- mark for everyone inter- ested in Brazilian clarinet players. Mr. Freire is a pro- fessor of clarinet at the Uni- versidade de Brasília -UnB, and a member of the UnB Wind Quintet and the UnB Wind Trio. As a researcher, he has published over 80 articles about clarinet performance, music education and music cognition. He is a columnist of The Clarinet , in the section News from Latin America. He has performed in in- ternational clarinet events including : ClarinetFest Lubock-USA (1997), Clarinet- Fest Austin- USA (2010) e ClarinetFest Assisi-Itália (2013); I and II Congresso La- tino-Americano de Clarinetistas - Lima (2010 and 2011); IX and X Festival de Jove- nes Clarinetistas Venezolanos - Caracas (2011 and 2013), ClariSax Medellin – Colômbia (2012 and 2014), ClariBogotá – Colômbia (2012) and Academia Ibero- Americana do Clarinete 2013 - Castelo de Paiva (Portugal). He is the founder di- rector of Música para Crianças , a Music Community Program at the Universidade de Brasilia . Currently, Mr. Freire is a director of the Institute of Arts at UnB until 2018.

Andre Freire was born in 1999, in Lansing, Michigan, USA. He started his cello studies in Brasilia, Brazil, when he was 6 years old. In Brasilia, he studied with Norma Parrot and Rodolfo Borges, cellists at the Orquestra do Teatro Nacional de Brasília ; with Lucimary Valle, cello teacher at the Escola de Música de Brasilia ; and with Pedro Bielschowsky, professor at the Universidade de Brasilia . Andre was the first cello at the Orquestra Juvenil da Universidade de Brasília (Youth

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Orchestra of UnB). He has participated in several musical courses and festi- vals in Sao Paulo and in Brasília; and he has

played in recitals and concerts as a soloist, with

chamber groups and with

his cello duo AcelloM.

Currently, he studies with

the cellist Peter Schöning

at Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet

in Göteborg, Sweden, and plays at Västra Götalands Ungdomssynfoniker – Vägus (Youth Orchestra of Western Sweden) and at the Göteborg Ungdom Orkester – GUO (Youth Orchestra of Gothenburg).

Isa Carolina Holmesland is a Norwegian-Brazilian musician. She started play- ing the violin when she was three years old through the Suzuki method. She studied at Barratt Due Music Insti- tute, Academy of Music in Oslo and The Royal Acad- emy of Music in Stockholm. She has worked in orches- tras such as Radio Sym- phony orchestra in Stock- holm, The Royal Opera in Sweden, Norrlandsoperan, Oslo Camerata, The Radio orchestra in Norway – Kringkastingsorkesteret and The Arctic philhar- monic orchestra. Isa Caroline is part of the ensemble “Oslo Strings”, a group that she and three colleagues started three years ago with a focus on new sounds, rhythms and arrangements. Together with the group, she has played at festivals in Norway, Brazil and USA.

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PROGRAM NOTES

Norway and Brazil, friendship and cultural connections

Chamber music is often regarded, by musicians, as one of the most enjoyable form of music-making. It brings the opportunity for a small group of people to play together and share their love for music playing. It is a very democratic setting, where each one

takes active role in the artistic result: Each instrument is a solo- ist, by being at the same time unreplaceable and equal. Each mu- sical line is unique, and at the same time, the musical result is collective. The concert at the Brazilian Embassy in Oslo will bring a specially designed repertoire for a Trio formed by Clari- net, Violin/Viola and Cello performed by Brazilian players who live, currently, in three different countries: a clarinet player from Brazil, a violinist from Norway and a cellist from Sweden. With this singular chamber formation, we invite the public to enjoy the encounter of cultures that were historically bound by music.

The program will feature a classical piece by Mozart, repre- senting the Austro-German influence in the formation of musi- cians from Northern Europe to Southern America in the nine- teen century. Next, selected pieces of Grieg and Nepomuceno will portray the search of new musical identities through beauti- ful lyrical tunes. Finally, there will be a sample of the legacy of Nepomuceno ideas, which unfolded into so many expressions, from the national modernism of Villa-Lobos to the emergence of new forms of Brazilian music genres, such as the choro pieces by Luiz Americano and Jacob do Bandolim.

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Wolfang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756 and has a long list of musical work, from which is hard to assign a most influential one. The Divertimento in Eb Major, K. 563 for String Trio is a mature work, from 1788. Alfred Einstein writes about it in Mozart: His Character, His Work : "it is a true cham- ber-music work, and grew to such large proportions only be- cause it was intended to offer ... something special in the way of art, invention, and good spirits. ... Each instrument is primus in- ter pares, every note is significant, every note is a contribution to spiritual and sensuous fulfillment in sound." Einstein also claimed that it is "one of his noblest works." The work was espe- cially arranged for this concert for Clarinet, Viola and Cello. Mo- zart died in Viena in 1791.

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Edvard Grieg was born in Bergen in 1843 and died at the same city in 1907. Since he was a small child, he was interested in Mu- sic, which he learned from his mother. Later, he became a pian- ist and a composer. He studied at the Music Conservatory of Leipzig and in Copenhagen. He played and composed in differ- ent countries. His production is very large and in many different genres. He composed for instrument ensembles, choirs, cham- ber and symphonic orchestra. For symphonic orchestra he com- posed the suite Peer Gynt: the famous piano concerto; Romance with Variations among others. There are also compositions for string orchestra, for chorus and orchestra, pieces for piano solo and for two pianos, and many songs for voice and piano with folkloric tunes. He composed music for piano inspired by the “halling”, which is a Norwegian dance (in binary rhythm) ac- companied by a special kind of violin, called Hardanger, with eight strings. He was the main representative of the nationalistic music movement in Norway.

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Alberto Nepomuceno was born in 1864, in For- taleza, Ceará. He played violin and piano, com- posed a several works for voice, piano, chamber and orchestral formation, and promoted contemporary Brazilian composers. He lived through the transi- tion from Brazilian Impe- rial to Republican Re- gimes. He was active in the abolitionist and repub- lican movements, and played a central role in the transition from Romanti- cism to Modernism ex- pressions of Brazilian mu- sic by being the first one to compose lieds with lyrics in Portuguese. Between 1889 and 1895 he lived in Europe, where he met and married the Norwe- gian pianist Walborg Bang (1864-1946). She promoted the en- counter of Nepomuceno and Edvard Grieg, who hosted in his home the young couple after their marriage. Apparently, Grieg played significant role in Nepomuceno´s composition develop- ment. Back to Brazil, Nepomuceno started to integrate the Bra- zilian culture in his musical work. He catalogued and promoted the initial work of Heitor Villa-Lobos. Nepomuceno died in 1920 in Rio de Janeiro. The piece Prece was written in 1887, originally for cello and piano.

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The connection : Norway became an independent country 83 years after Brazil, but their movements for a national identity were contemporary. Edvard Grieg and Alberto Nepomuceno were pioneers of those new ideas in their musical scenario. Norway and Brazil were historically and culturally bound by this encounter thanks to Walborg Bang.

Heitor Villa- Lobos was born in Rio in 1887. With initial sup- port from Ne- pomuceno, he de- veloped one of the most genuine musical style within the Brazil- ian modernist and nationalist move- ment. However, different from Ne- pomuceno, Villa-Lobos took folklore as the main source into his work. The Chôros n. 1 is a landmark piece, because it is a turning point in Villa-Lobos career. He takes that urban popular genre and embrace it in a compositional project, of a series of 12 pieces. The piece was dedicated to pianist Ernesto Nazareth, an important popular composer; and it was originally composed for guitar, giving it a new role as a classical instrument in Brazil- ian musical scenario. He died in 1959 in Rio de Janeiro.

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Luis Americano was born in 1900 in Aracaju, Sergipe, a clarinetist and saxophonist very active in Rio de Janeiro in the 1930 and 1940s. Sorriso de Cristal means crystal smile and is a late composition from1953. Choro is considered an instrumental genre of Bra- zilian Music that brought to- gether European dances and African rhythms. It resembles the Samba regarding the rhythmic and melodic structure, but it is only played by instru- ments that would develop an improvisational and virtuoso per- formance style. He died in 1960 in Rio de Janeiro.

Jacob do Bandolim was born in 1918 in Rio de Janeiro. He was a self-taught mandolinist and com- poser that decided to study mu- sic when he was 13 years old af- ter hearing a choro group across his house performing the tune “ É o que há ” by Luiz Americano. Santa Morena is a fast Spanish Waltz part of the Choro reper- toire. He died in Rio de Janeiro in 1969.

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Mais informações: Maria Luiza Cestari - [email protected] Ricardo Dourado Freire - [email protected] Andre Freire - [email protected] Isa Caroline Holmesland - [email protected]

A Embaixada do Brasil em Oslo não se responsabiliza pelo evento, apenas divulga. Trata-se de um evento realizado por membros da comunidade brasileira na Noruega e/ou outros. http://oslo.itamaraty.gov.br

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