My Latin Heart Program

RIVERSIDE THEATRES PRESENTS MY LATIN HEART JOSÉ CARBÓ WITH SLAVA & LEONARD GRIGORYAN MUSIC FRIDAY 18 MARCH AT 8PM northern region of Galicia. José made his La MUSICIANS Scala debut in 2009 in Il viaggio a Reims and his American debut in 2011 as Rossini’s The JOSÉ CARBÓ BARITONE Marriage of Figaro in Seattle. SLAVA GRIGORYAN Most recently, he has sung Count Almaviva in GUITAR The Marriage of Figaro, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, LEONARD GRIGORYAN GUITAR Marcello in La Bohème, Silvio in Pagliacci, Lescaut in Manon, Don Alfonso in Così fan Tutte and First Officer inMadeline Lee for Opera CREW Australia. For Opera Queensland he played REUBEN ZYLBERSZPIC the title roles in Don Giovanni and Il Barbiere, PRODUCER Belcore in L’elisir d’amore and Sonora in La Fanciulla del West and for State Opera of South Australia he performed in Rossini’s The Marriage of Figaro. BIOGRAPHIES José Carbó has extensive experience performing in concerts. His repertoire includes JOSÉ Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Mass in C and Choral Symphony, Carl Orff’s Carmina CARBÓ Burana, Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, Fauré’s Baritone Requiem, Brahms’ Eines Deutsches Requiem, Australian baritone José Carbó was born in Ralph Vaughan-Williams’ Mass in C minor Argentina and is of Spanish and Italian descent. and Mendelssohn’s Paulus with the major He moved with his family to Australia at an orchestras of Australia and New Zealand. In early age. José has studied under the tutelage October 2006, José undertook a tour as the of Thais Taras, Arax Mansourian and Margaret baritone soloist with the Sydney Symphony Baker Genovesi in Rome. He was the winner of Orchestra to Tokyo and Osaka, Japan where he the prestigious Australian Singing Competition sang three Don Quixote songs by Ravel. Opera Award in 2005. José’s debut album, My Latin Heart (recorded José made his debut with Opera Australia, with Slava and Leonard Grigoryan and released in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos (in 2002), and by ABC Classics) debuted at No. 1 on the returned in 2002 to play the title role in their Limelight Magazine Classical Music charts and production of The Barber of Seville. was nominated for Best Classical Album in the 2012 ARIA Awards. His European debut was in Italy in 2005 at the Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma where he sang the title role in The Marriage of Figaro. That same SLAVA year, he sang the title role in The Barber of GRIGORYAN Seville for the Teatro Real in Madrid. He returned Guitar to Teatro dell’ Opera in 2006 to sing Belcore in Regarded as a “wizard” of the guitar, Slava L’elisir d’amore. These performances resulted has forged a prolific reputation as a classical in him playing Dandini in La Cenerentola for the guitar virtuoso. 2007 Mozart Festival in La Coruña in Spain’s Slava was born in Kazakhstan and immigrated String Quartets in Australia and the Endellion, with his family to Australia in 1981. He began Skampa and Chillingirian quartets in Europe. studying the guitar with his violinist father Slava regularly performs with the Southern Edward at the age of 6. By the time he was 17 Cross Soloists and has worked extensively he was signed to the Sony Classical Label. His with pianist Michael Kieren-Harvey, baritone relationship with Sony Classical, ABC Classics José Carbó and was a founding member of in Australia, and now his own label Which Saffire, the Australian guitar quartet amongst Way Music has led to the release of over 20 many others. He has also collaborated with solo and collaborative albums spanning a vast numerous composers and premiered many range of musical genres. new works, significantly with composers At the age of 18, his first tour was with guitar William Lovelady, Nigel Westlake and legends Paco Pena and Leo Kottke. Since then, Shaun Rigney. he’s travelled the world as a soloist in recitals Outside the classical world he has had and with orchestras in Europe, Asia and North long term collaborations with MGT, a guitar America. Appearances with orchestras have trio featuring jazz icons Ralph Towner and included the London Philharmonic, the Royal Wolfgang Muthspiel, and a duo with Austrian Scottish National Orchestra, the Halle, the electric bassist Al Slavik. A more recent project Dresden Radio Orchestra, the Israel Symphony has been The Grigoryan and Tawadros Band and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. of Brothers, featuring his brother Leonard and Slava has performed at dozens of national and brothers, Joseph and James Tawadros in a international arts festivals and guitar festivals. fusion of contemporary jazz, classical and He has won ARIA Awards for Best Classical middle-eastern music. Album and performs regularly as a soloist with His appointment in 2009 as the Artistic Director all of Australia’s symphony orchestras. He has of the Adelaide International Guitar Festival had two critically acclaimed tours with the has been a thrilling addition to an already full Australian Chamber Orchestra. Internationally, musical life. his performances have taken him to some of the world’s leading venues. From numerous appearances in London’s Wigmore Hall and LEONARD Royal Festival Hall, to New York City’s Carnegie GRIGORYAN Hall, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, and Tokyo’s Sumida Guitar Triphony Hall, Slava has developed a talent for bewitching his audiences. Leonard Grigoryan was born in 1985. Four years later, he was studying the guitar with Collaborations have played a huge part his father. His elder brother Slava had already in his career, most notably the guitar duo forged a career in music when Leonard with his brother Leonard Grigoryan. They was growing up; the nine-year gap was an have released three duo albums and have asset in that they never competed against appeared on many others together. The duo's each other but matured along their own touring has seen them perform throughout paths. However, it was inevitable once Slava Europe, America, Asia, Russia and the returned to Australia – after several years Middle-East. Other collaborations in the working overseas, that the two would classical sphere have been with ensembles perform together. including the Goldner, Flinders and Australian In 2001, Leonard was the only guest artist on guitar supergroup - the ARIA Award-winning Slava’s ARIA Award-winning album, Sonatas Saffire, a group in which his brother had and Fantasies. The following year they released also played. their first duo albumPlay , which was also He regularly tours nationally and internationally nominated for an ARIA Award. and has performed in Africa, Asia, Europe, In 2005, the brothers released their second Middle East, United States and Russia. In March album Rodrigo Concertos on ABC Classics. Two 2006, Leonard made his debut performance, years later, they recorded their third album with Slava, at one of the world’s pre-eminent Impressions, which featured the music of concert recital venues, Wigmore Hall, in London. Debussy, De Falla and Mompou. In 2009 the Leonard also performs and composes for the brothers recorded Distance on the Which Way ground-breaking contemporary jazz ensemble Music label, this album was also nominated FGHR, which has released two albums for an ARIA Award and the following year was Stationary and Going Home. released in Europe with Material Records. In 2012 Leonard recorded his debut solo album Leonard has dedicated himself to both classical Solo. He recorded this album in Oslo at the and jazz genres and is an active arranger world famous Rainbow Studio with engineer and composer. In 2005, Leonard joined quite Jan Erik Kongshaug. This album was released possibly Australia’s first, and only, classical in 2013 on the Which Way Music Label. 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