Wednesday, November 9 2011

These concert listings come courtesy of the following sites: Concerto, Concertino, 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.

There's a new Concert Listing website: Bachtrack.

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Banda de Concerto de Volta Redonda

Date: 
11/09/2011 - 18:30
Location: 
Brazil: Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, 9 de Novembro de 2011 - Rio de Janeiro

18h30 - Banda de Concerto de Volta Redonda
Projeto Candelária. Nicolau Martins - regente. Programa: obras de Verdi, Beethoven, Villa-Lobos e Bach, entre outros. Entrada franca.
Local: Igreja da Candelária
Praça Pio X, s/nº - Centro - Tel. (21) 2233-2324

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Cello & Guitar at Morehead State

Date: 
11/09/2011 - 20:00
Location: 
USA: Morehead KY

Brazilian musicians to host recital, Nov. 9

The Morehead News

Nov. 4, 2011 - Brazilian musicians Dr. Hans Twitchell, cellist, and Dr. Eduardo Meirinhos, guitarist, will present a recital at Morehead State University, Wednesday, Nov. 9. The event, which will be held at 8 p.m. in Duncan Recital Hall, within Baird Music Hall, is free and open to the public.

Their performance is in conjunction with a faculty exchange program.

The concert will include works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Cesar Guerra-Peixe, Leo Brouwer, Roland Dyens and Alfred Schnittike.

Dr. Twitchell is the cellist/gambist for the versatile chamber music group Avery Ensemble. He has performed in the United States, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Israel, Brazil and Argentina including collaborations with the Emerson Quartet and the Adaskin Trio. He has served as principal cellist of both the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra in Texas and the Eastern Connecticut Symphony. Dr. Twitchell has recorded on the New England Viola da Gamba Society Record Label and is professor of cello at the State University of Santa Catarina in Florianópolis, Brazil.

Dr. Meirinhos is a professor at the School of Music of the Universidade Federal de Goiás (Federal University of Goiás), Brazil where he teaches guitar, guitar literature and chamber music. He holds a Doctor of Music degree from Florida State University, a master's degree in musicology from Universidade de São Paulo (University of São Paulo) and a degree in music performance from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in Germany. He has performed extensively in South America, Germany and the United States, participating in music festivals as both teacher and performer. Among these festivals were the Festival de Musica de Londrina, Festival de Inverno de Campos do Jordão, Seminario de Musica de Montenegro, Curso de Verão de Brasília and the Festival de Vale Vêneto.

The campus performance is sponsored by Magnets, the FIPSE exchange program, a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, and the Brazilian education organization CAPES. Frank Oddis, associate professor of music, oversees the program on the Morehead State campus.

Information is available from Oddis by calling 783-4888 or emailing him at f.oddis@moreheadstate.edu.