Release 029 - Vale Fertilizantes Marcelo Bratke Tour

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WITH MUSIC BY MARCELO BRATKE AND CAMERATA BRASIL,
AND FILM/SCENERY BY MARIANNITA LUZZATI, “TOM JOBIM
PLURAL” WILL PLAY ONE SHOW IN SERGIPE
Show is part of the national tour sponsored by Vale visiting another five cities
Pianist and conductor Marcelo Bratke and the Camerata Brasil (an orchestra of
young musicians from underprivileged areas of Brazilian society) are taking the
TOM JOBIM PLURAL project on a national from July to December. The
T idea for
the tour came from Bratke himself and artist Mariannita Luzzati, who is
responsible for the show's film/scenery. The show is free and sponsored
exclusively by Vale (via the Cultural incentive law - the Rouanet Act). There will
be a single show in Aracaju at the Atheneu Theater on September 4, at 8 pm.
Organized by Bratke and Mariannita, the project will visit ten cities in eight
Brazilian states. The tour begins in Itabira (MG), on July 17, and after visiting
Aracaju it will also go to São Luís (MA) and São Paulo (SP), in September;
Vitória (ES), Belo Horizonte (MG), in November, and Corumbá (MS), in
December.
"We are very happy to once again help showcase Brazilian culture while also
training young talent and providing access to culture in areas
areas where the
company operates", said Vale Fertilizantes general manager for
Communications and Corporate Affairs, Paulo Eduardo Batista.
A homage to Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927 – 1994), a composer from Rio de
Janeiro, the project focuses on the symphonic elements and the environmental
themes in his work, particularly one of his main sources of inspiration: nature.
Based on this, when Marcelo Bratke and Camerata Brasil play
play a repertoire of
memorable Tom Jobim songs, such as Modinha, Saudades do Brasil, Choro,
As Praias Desertas, Estrada Branca, Sabiá, Wave, Luiza and Samba de Avião,
the film/scenery produced by Mariannita Luzzati will be projected on a screen at
the back off the stage, with moving images focusing on Brazilian nature.
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"The idea is take the audience on an imaginary visual and audio trip through
Brazilian nature, Jobim's biggest source of inspiration", said Marcelo Bratke.
Profiles
Marcelo Bratke - A Brazilian pianist living in London, Bratke has played at the
most renowned concert halls in the world, including the Carnegie Hall, Festival
de Salzburg, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus, Berlin and
Suntory Hall, in Tokyo.
He has built a successful
uccessful career overcoming a serious congenital problem
affecting his vision that has limited his sight from childhood until he was 44,
when he undertook a high risk procedure in Boston (US) and started the really
see the world for the first time. Is story
story has been told in a book written by
English writer Kate Snell, who also authored a biography of Princess Diana.
Although usually involved in more classical music, Marcelo Bratke has travelled
beyond the frontiers of this universe. He has collaborated with British jazz
pianist Julian Joseph, percussionist Nana Vasconcelos and pop singers Sandy
and Fernanda Takai. He has also recorded duets with pianist Marcela Roggeri
and soprano Rosana Lamosa.
An observer of social and cultural contrasts in Brazil,
Brazil, he is dedicated to
transforming are into a means of social engagement. In 2006, he created
Camerata Brasil, a partnership with the Vale Foundation.
Recently, he has also worked with a number of groups of young Brazilian
percussionists, part of his Carnival Trilogy music project which has visited
France, Germany, England, Argentina, South Korea, Northern Ireland and the
USA. His trip to the US was reported on the front page of the New York Times,
under the title The Two Brazils Combine for Night at Carnegie
Carnegie Hall.
Hall
Over the next three years, Marcelo Bratke will also be heading up the “Villa“Villa
Lobos Worldwide” project, an international campaign to promote the music of
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Villa Lobos. The project includes a complete recording of his works for solo
piano on 8 CDs
Ds with the Britânica Quartz record company, concerts in Europe,
the US and Asia and production of a documentary in English for international TV.
Marcelo Bratke studied at the Juilliard School of Music, in New York. He has
received a number of awards, including the first Concorso Internazionale di
Musica Tradate,, in Italy, the "Revelation" award from the Sao Paulo Art Critics'
Association (APCA); the Carlos Gomes award, the Classic Discoveries award in
England,
ngland, the Brazil in Germany 2006 award and the Brazilian International Press
Award 2011. His CD dedicated to the Le Groupe des Six,, by Jean Cocteau, was
considered one of the best classical recordings of all time by British magazine
Gramophone.
Camerata Brasil – Marcelo Bratke has been increasingly involved in how art
can engage in social development and in 2006 he partnered with the Vale
Foundation to create Camerata Brasil, an orchestra set up to train young
musicians from underprivileged areas of Espirito Santo, where there had
previously been no opportunity for the academic study of music. Through this
project, the youngsters involved have been introduced to the competitive music
market in brazil and abroad.
In just five years, Camerata Brasil
Brasil has held four major national tours, playing at
some of the largest concert halls in Brazil: from Sala São Paulo to the Municipal
Theater in Rio de Janeiro; from the Palácio das Artes, in Belo Horizonte, to the
mega concert at Copacabana beach, where Bratke and his Camerata shared the
stage with the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra and Kurt Masur, among others.
There have been 52 public concerts and 46 teaching concerts in 28 Brazilian
cities, as well as DVDs and CDs and concerts abroad.
Their first international concert was in Japan during a tour that included shows at
some of Japan's most famous concert halls, including the Shirakawa Hall, in
Nagoya, and the Suntory Hall, in Tokyo.
In 2012, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs chose the project
project for its international
campaign to promote the works of Villa-Lobos,
Villa Lobos, under the title "The Villa-Lobos
Villa
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Box", which included distributing the DVD “Alma Brasileira – Marcelo Bratke e
Camerata Brasil” to 20,000 Brazilian and foreign diplomats worldwide and a
series of concerts celebrating Villa-Lobos
Villa Lobos and Brazil in Europe and the US.
Marcelo Bratke and Camerata Brasil recently played a memorable concert at
Carnegie Hall, in New York,
York, which was acclaimed by the American public and
praised by critics from the The New York Times, New York Post and Concert Net
USA.
Mariannita Luzzati - Born in Sao Paulo, she held her first individual exhibition in
1989, at the Sao Paulo Cultural Center, when she started being represented by
Galeria Subdistrito. The same year,
year, the received her first award at the Nation Art
Salon.
In 1993, she received the award for print acquisition on show at the Machida
City Museum, in Tokyo, and was invited to take part in the Panorama of Current
Brazilian Art at the Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art. A year later, she was
chosen to represent brazil
zil at the 22nd International Biannual Exhibition in Sao
Paulo and was subsequently invited to exhibit in Germany, France, Spain, the
US and England, where she has been living since 1994 and is represented by
the Purdy Hicks Gallery.
She has exhibited at major institutions in brazil and abroad, such as the
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the Museums of Modern Art in São Paulo,
Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, the Museums of Contemporary Art in São Paulo and
Curitiba, the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de
de Janeiro, the Palácio das
Artes in Belo Horizonte and the Vale do Rio Doce Museum in Vitória, the Museu
Nacional de Buenos Aires, the Museum Of London, the Haus Der Kulturen Der
Welt, in Berlin, the Maison Saint Gilles, in Brussels, and others.
He works are part of major domestic and international collections, including the
Fundação Itaú Cultural in São Paulo, the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional in Rio
de Janeiro, the Fundação Cultural in Curitiba, the Fundação Padre Anchieta TV Cultura, in São Paulo,
ulo, the Museu de Arte in Brasília, the Machida City
Museum of Graphic Arts, in Tokyo; Pinacoteca do Estado in São Paulo, the
Gerência Geral de Comunicação Vale Fertilizantes
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Centro Cultural Dragão do Mar, in Fortaleza, Musei Civici de Lecco e MIDA, in
Scontrone, Italy, the British Museum, in London, the Essex Collection,
Collection in
England and others.
Mariannita Luzzati was recently chosen to take part in the "Women, Artists and
Brazilians" exhibition at the Palácio do Planalto in honor of President Dilma
Rousseff.
Event
“Tom Jobim Plural 2012” – Marcelo Bratke and Camerata Brasil +
Mariannita Luzzati
Marcelo Bratke - pianist and conductor
Camerata Brasil - Lucas Anízio de Melo:
Melo violin; Lucas Oliveira dos Santos:
Santos cello;
Ariel da Silva Alves, flute;; Jean Michel de Freitas: clarinet; Leonardo H. Miranda
de Paula: percussion
Mariannita Luzzati - film/scenery
film/
Program
Modinha
Choro
As Praias Desertas
Estrada Branca
Sabiá
O Grande Amor
Meu Amigo Radamés
Canção em Modo Menor
Wave
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Cristina Gonçalves
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Inútil Paisagem
Luiza
Samba do Avião
Sergipe
Date: September 4 (Tuesday).
Time: 8 pm
Place: Atheneu Theater
São Paulo
Date: September 30 (Sunday)
Time: 11 am
Place: Sala São Paulo
Gerência Geral de Comunicação Vale Fertilizantes
Cristina Gonçalves
Tel.: 13 3362-9931 | 13 8128-6644
[email protected]
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