Sunday, April 26 2009

These concert listings come courtesy of the following sites: Opus1 Classical for world-wide concerts; Concerto and Portal VivaMusica in Brazil; ConcertDiary in the UK, Instant Encore in the US, and La Scena Musicale in Canada. Also from my faithful HVL Website viewers - send me an email if you know of any upcoming Villa-Lobos concert, anywhere in the world.

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Camerata Darcos play BB#4 in Sao Paulo

Date: 
04/26/2009 - 11:00
Location: 
Brazil: Sao Paulo
Work Performed: 
Bachianas Brasileiras #4

São Paulo, 26 de Abril de 2009 - São Paulo

11h00 - Camerata Darcos. Regente e solista: Paulo Paschoal - violino.
Música no Museu. Série Cordas Virtuosas. Programa: Villa-Lobos - Prelúdio da Bachianas Brasileiras nº 4; Bach - Concerto para violino e orquestra nº 2; Sarasate - Romanza andaluza; Tchaikovsky - Melodie; Brahms - Dança húngara e Guerra-Peixe - Mourão. Curadoria: Paulo Paschoal. Entrada franca.
Local: Museu da Casa Brasileira
Terraço - Av. Brig. Faria Lima, 2707 - Jd. Paulistano - Tels. 3032-3727 / 3032-2564 / 3032-2499 (230 lugares) *

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Trio Images play the Piano Trio #1 in Sao Paulo

Date: 
04/26/2009 - 12:00
Location: 
Brazil: Sao Paulo
Work Performed: 
Piano Trio #1

São Paulo, 26 de Abril de 2009 - São Paulo

12h00 - Trio Images
Música em Cena. Achille Picchi, Cecília Guida e Henrique Muller. Programa: Guerra-Peixe - Trio; Picchi - Simples trio; Juon - Trio op. 60; Villani-Côrtes - Royati; Villa-Lobos - Trio nº 1 e Khachaturian - Valsa da suíte Maskerade. Entrada franca.
Local: Centro Cultural FIESP - Teatro Popular do Sesi
Av. Paulista, 1313 - Metrô Trianon-Masp - Tel. 3146-7405 (456 lugares) *

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Joel Fan Plays Choros #05 in Albuquerque

Date: 
04/26/2009 - 15:00
Location: 
USA: Albuquerque NM
Work Performed: 
Choros #05

Chamber Music Albuquerque
Pianist, Joel Fan

The Ralph Berkowitz Concert

Pianist, Joel Fan

Sunday, April 26, 2009
3 PM at The Simms Center

The pianist Joel Fan performs a varied assortment of programs that place him clearly on the cutting edge of piano repertoire and programming. A long-time member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, his exposure to new and unusual music has inspired a truly universal approach to performing.

Program

Adnan Saygun
Pentatonic Sketch on Aksak Rhythm (Turkey)

Prokofiev
Sonata No. 3 in A minor

Dia Succari
La Nuit du Destin (Syria)

Qigang Chen
Instants d'un opera pekin (China)

Beethoven
Sonata Op. 110

Villa-Lobos
Alma Brasileira (Brazil)

Kirchner
Sonata No. 3

Chopin
Sonata No. 2 "Funeral March"

Liszt
Paraphrase from Rigoletto

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Vocal Concert at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos

Date: 
04/26/2009 - 17:30
Location: 
USA: Taos NM
Work Performed: 
Vocal Works

Harwood Presents Tina Sandoval, Mark Jackson, Kathleen Mills in Concert

The University of New Mexico's Harwood Museum of Art in Taos and the Harwood Museum Alliance present a benefit concert and champagne reception on Sunday, April 26, 5:30 p.m. All proceeds benefit Harwood Museum of Art programs. Opera soprano Tina Sandoval and tenor Mark Jackson will present their sixth concert at the Harwood with pianist Kathleen Mills.

Continuing with their love of opera and classical voice, their concert "Tonight, Tonight..." features a romantic evening of opera arias and duets from Bernstein's "Candide," Verdi's "Aida" and "Simon Boccanegra," Dvořák's "Rusalka," Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin," and songs by Heitor Villa-Lobos.

A life-long singer and pianist, Sandoval has a diverse background in music. Her formal training includes degrees in voice performance and a Masters in Vocal Arts Education from Northwestern University School of Music and Lewis and Clark College. She performed as principal soloist with the Chicago Symphony Chorus and Portland Symphonic Choir. Sandoval is soloist with various ensembles in Taos including the Taos Community Chorus. She is also an accomplished jazz vocalist, has written and performed her own contemporary compositions and is an acclaimed recording artist, composer and songwriter. She is a voice instructor with UNM-Taos and teaches private voice at her Taos Institute of Vocal Arts Studio (TIVA) which she shares with Jackson.

Jackson has sung with the Taos Chamber Music Group at the Harwood and is a soloist with the Taos Community Chorus. He is teaches vocal performance and acting for the singer at UNM-Taos and private voice at TIVA. His formal training was at Boston Conservatory. He has performed worldwide, including Pakistan, Mozambique, South Africa, Brazil and Switzerland. He sang with many opera companies in the United States, including the New York City Opera, Boston Opera Company, Boston Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Kansas City Opera, Central City Opera, Mid West Opera Theater and Minnesota Opera.

After many years as professor of music and gender studies at Washington College in Chestertown, Md., Mills moved with her husband to Taos in 1999. She has performed with the Taos Chamber Music Group, Taos Chamber Singers, Opera Tazza and Taos Community Orchestra and Chorus, among others. She holds degrees from Cornell and Smith Colleges and Northwestern University in piano, music education and music history, where her piano gurus were Julian Bern, George Walker and Gui Mombaerts.

The Harwood Museum Alliance has also designed three raffle prize baskets worth $350-$500: a health basket with certificates for massages, pedicures, manicures as well as health and beauty items, a gourmet basket with chocolates, coffee and food, and a tech/music basket with a complete iPod unit. The raffle will be drawn during concert and winners need to be present. Raffle tickets will be available in museum shop prior to the concert and will be sold during the event.

Concert tickets are $25 for Harwood Alliance members and the UNM community and $35 for nonmembers and are available in the museum shop two weeks before the event. For more information call (575) 758-9826 ext. 105 or visit Harwood Museum.

The UNM Harwood Museum of Art is located at 238 Ledoux Street, Taos. Hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, 12 p.m.-5 p.m.

Media Contact: Lucy Perera-Adams, (575) 758-9826, lperera@aol.com