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PROJECT “ OF ” - UPCOMING EVENTS VILLA-LOBOS RECITAL AT AMERICAS SOCIETY & CD RECORDING IN NYC

The Consulate General of Brazil in New York, Americas Society and Naxos Records will present, on January 10, recital with Italian violinist, Emmanuele Baldini, and Brazilian pianist, Pablo Rossi. The program features Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Sonatas for Piano and Violin. The evening includes a pre-concert talk with Villa-Lobos’s biographer, Rodrigo Alzuguir. While in New York, the will record in studio the recital’s repertoire for an upcoming release by Naxos Records, as part of the “Music of Brazil” series (more information below).

RECITAL AT AMERICAS SOCIETY

Friday, January 10, 7:30 pm (Pre-Concert Talk @ 7:00 pm) Americas Society (680 Park Avenue) Free Event – RSVP to https://www.as-coa.org/events/baldini-rossi-fantaisie More Info: [email protected]

Program Complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin – Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)

Sonata Fantasy No. 1 'Désespérance' (1913)

Sonata No. 3 (1920) I. Adagio non troppo II. Allegro vivace scherzando III. Molto animato and finale

Sonata Fantasy No. 2 (1914) I. Allegro non troppo II. Largo III. Rondo: Allegro finale

BIOGRAPHIES Emmanuele Baldini (Violin) - Born in Trieste, Italy, Emmanuele Baldini was awarded several prizes from international competitions. He was concertmaster of the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, and the Orchestra del Teatro “Guiseppe Verdi” di Trieste. Since 2005, he has been concertmaster of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de (OSESP), Brazil, where he lives. Baldini’s highlights include concerts at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and Teatro del Sodre in Montevideo.

Pablo Rossi (Piano) - Brazilian pianist Pablo Rossi won the first Nelson Freire National Competition for New Brazilian Talents in 2003. He has won more than ten competitions and given more than eighty recitals, as a member of the Keyboard Charitable Trust. He has performed as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Kremlin, the Chamber Orchestra of Auvergne, the Orchestra of Kirov and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, (OSESP), among others. Recently, Pablo has played at Carnegie Hall in New York, St. Maria Perivale in London and Sala Cecilia Meireles in .

Rodrigo Alziguir - Rodrigo Alzuguir is a Brazilian , writer, researcher and published author. In 2014, his biography about the Wilson Baptista, one of the pioneers, was awarded the Jabuti Prize, the most prestigious prize in . He is currently working on a biography about Heitor Villa-Lobos that will be published in 2020.

PROJECT MUSIC OF BRAZIL

The Villa-Lobos recital at Americas Society is part of the project “Music of Brazil”, launched in 2019 by the Cultural Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote Brazilian classical worldwide. The cornerstone of the initiative is the release, by Naxos Records, of 30 over the next decade featuring 100 orchestral, and vocal pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries.

In New York, the Consulate General of Brazil and Naxos Records launched the project at Carnegie Hall with a recital by Brazilian pianist Pablo Rossi, in April 2019.

The first recording features Alberto Nepomuceno’s “Symphony in G Minor”, performed by the Philharmonic Orchestra led by music director and principal conductor Fabio Mechetti. Throughout 2019, Naxos released two additional albums: Leopoldo Miguez’s and Glauco Velásquez’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano, played by Emmanuele Baldini (violin) and Karin Fernandes (piano); and Heitor Villa-Lobos’s, “Guitar Concerto” and “Harmonica Concerto”, performed by the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Manuel Barrueco (guitar) and José Staneck (harmonica). Another release, scheduled for 2020, is the Complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin by Heitor Villa-Lobos, that will be recorded in January with Emmanuele Baldini and Pablo Rossi.

Other composers to be featured in the series are César Guerra-Peixe, Cláudio Santoro, Edino Krieger, Carlos Gomes, José Siqueira, Lorenzo Fernandez, , , and Almeida Prado.