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A programme that continues the investment in female creativity, with the first national performance of Judith Bailey's music. Alongside Schumann's romantic and introspective cello concerto, we will be able to experience the brilliant and luminous first symphony by our very own João Domingos Bomtempo.
Programme
JUDITH BAILEY (1941)
Trencrom
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)
Cello Concerto in La? minor c/ Marco Pereira
JOÃO DOMINGOS BOMTEMPO (1775-1842)
Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major
Marco Pereira, cello
Martim Sousa Tavares, conductor
Orquestra do Algarve
22/03
FARO
SÉ CATEDRAL FARO
8pm
Free entry
Orquestra do Algarve, Organization
Igreja da Sé Catedral de Faro, Support
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MARCO PEREIRA
Cello
Marco Pereira had his first experience of the cello at the age of 13 at the EPMVC. He went on to study at the ANSO in Lisbon with Paulo Gaio Lima, where he completed his degree with a final grade of 20 points, followed by studies in Madrid at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia with Natalia Shakovskaya. Throughout his career he had the opportunity to work with the cello's greatest masters, such as Natalia Gutman, Gary Hoffman, Phillipe Muller and Ivan Moneghetti, amongst many others. String quartets have featured heavily in Marco Pereira's career from an early age, peaking when he formed the Matosinhos String Quartet as a founding member. Said quartet was named "Rising Stars" in ECHO's 2015/2016 season, where he had the opportunity to play a series of concerts in Europe's main concert halls, such as the Barbican (London), Concertgebouwn (Amsterdam) and Musikverein (Vienna). Marco Pereira has performed innumerable solo concerts, recitals and contests that have propelled his career, earning him a prestigious reputation in the Portuguese and international music community. Among the most notable competitions was the JMP competition, where he won the Chamber Music Prize in 1999 and the Cello - Advanced Level Prize in 2003, the year in which he also received the "Maestro Silva Pereira Prize". At international level, he won 1st prize at the "Liezen International Wettbewerb für Violoncello" in Austria, in the "III Konzert" category. He also won 1st prize at the "VI Certamen de Musica de Camara del Sardinero" in Santander in 2006. He has also been honoured at the Estoril Julio Cardona Interpretation Competition, amongst others. He has performed solo with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Joensuu Orchestra (Finland), Atlantic Music Festival Orchestra (USA), among others. He has recorded numerous CDs for solo cello, string quartet and other ensembles. He is the solo cello/chief of staff of the Gulbenkian Orchestra. He is a regular guest with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege and the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest as a bandleader. He has lectured on the cello at the University of Aveiro and the University of Minho. He is currently a lecturer at the ANSO.
MARTIM SOUSA TAVARES
Conductor
Martim Sousa Tavares was born in Lisbon in 1991.
Graduated in Music Science and Orchestral Conducting between Lisbon, Milan, and Chicago, he completed his academic path with honours and Fulbright and Eckstein Foundation scholarships.
He founded in 2014 in Brescia the Orchestra di Maggio, followed in 2019 by the Orquestra Sem Fronteiras, based in Idanha-a-Nova and which has performed in over 100 venues between Portugal, Spain, and Brazil, having won in 2022 the Charlemagne Youth Prize of the European Parliament and the Mirpuri Foundation music award.
He is the chief conductor of Orquestra do Algarve since January 2023 and his recent activity includes concerts with the Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras and Orquestra do Norte.
He is very active in the field of cultural communication, having signed more than 150 programmes in RTP2, RTP Palco and Antena 2. In the Observador newspaper he maintains a newsletter and a weekly podcast: the most listened to in Portugal in the field of music.
He collaborates regularly with the theatre and, as an author, the following works stand out: the music for Vita & Virginia, presented at Teatro São Luiz in 2021, the children's opera O Anel do Unicórnio, premiered in 2021 and presented in seven cities, and Uma Outra Bela Adormecida, based on the short story by Agustina Bessa-Luís, in a co-production of Teatro Nacional de São João, Lu.Ca - Teatro Luís de Camões, Cineteatro Louletano and Centro Cultural Raiano which will premier in January 2023.
In the field of artistic direction, he conceived A Boca do Lobo, a classical music cycle at Lux-Frágil, took over the coordination of the cultural programme of Aveiro's application to become the European Capital of Culture in 2027 and is the director of the Sintra Festival.
