Cordancia Chamber Orchestra Concert: Concerto do Brasil
Schedule
Sun, 18 May, 2025 at 02:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
School of the Arts | Rochester, NY
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Winners of the 2024 Nico Toscano Young Musician Competition perform as soloists with Cordancia Chamber Orchestra on this program from Brazil.Also featuring capoeira music and games with com Expressão, a Rochester based academy which teaches and performs capoeira, which combines martial arts with music and dance. https://www.comexpressao.com
This concert features music by Brazilian composers including:
O Martírio dos insetos (the Martyrdom of Insects) by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), edited by Ricardo Averbach, with Leona Liu, violin soloist, competition winner
Elegia for tuba and string orchestra by Fernando Morais (b. 1966) with Addie Canning, tuba, competition winner (her own arrangement of this piece which was originally written for trumpet)
Also featuring other works by Brazilian composers:
Clarice Assad (b 1978) https://clariceassad.com
João Rocha https://www.jrconductor.com
José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1767-1830)
As well as Darius Milhaud’s Le boeuf sur le toit, which features many Brazilian dance songs
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Where is it happening?
School of the Arts, 45 Prince St, Rochester, NY 14607-1437, United States,Rochester, New YorkEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
