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Francisco Ferreira
Banda Sinfonica Portuguesa
Soloist: Fernando Marinho
Flute
Hêrlander Sousa
Daniela Anjo
Ema Ribeiro
Oboe
Paulo Areias
Juliana Félix
Fernanda Amorim (C. Inglês)
Bassoon
Gabriel Fonseca
Ana Isabel Bastos
Clarinet
Crispim Luz
Horácio Ferreira
Rita Petiz
Nuno Sousa
João Ramos
Luísa Marques
David Silva
Rui Lopes
Edgar Silva
Hélder Tavares
Mário Apolinário
Carlos Ferreira
Filipe Pereira (Requinta)
Hugo Queirós (Clarinete Baixo)
Hugo Folgar (Clarinete Cbxo)
Saxophone
Gilberto Bernardes (Alto)
José Silva (Alto)
Isabel Anjo (Tenor)
Agustim Castro (Tenor)
Marcelo Marques (Baritone)
Horn
Hélder Vales
Flávio Barbosa
Luís Vieira
António Seabra
Nuno Silva
Trumpets
Percussion
André Dias
Diogo Sargedas
Luís Santiago
Marcelo Aires
Eduardo Cardinho
Fábio Silva
Cello
Susana Lima
Bárbara Santos
Telmo Barbosa
Hélder Fernandes
Pedro Gonçalves
Pedro Celestino
Mário Pinto
João Sousa
String Bass
Trombone
Harp
Joaquim Oliveira
João Martinho
Luís Castro
Júlio Sousa (bass trombone)
Ricardo Afonso (bass trombone)
Claudia Rodet
Vanessa Lima
Piano Celesta
Brenda Hermida
Ana Aroso
Made possible by
Euphonium
Nuno Costa
Daniel Silva
Tuba
Avelino Ramos
Fernando Santos
Jorge Fernandes
Timpany
Jorge Lima
Sponsored by
Banda Sinfonica Portuguesa
Conductor: Francisco Ferreira
Soloist: Fernando Marinho
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The Portuguese Symphonic Band
The Portuguese Symphonic Band (BSP) is based in Oporto, and was founded in
November 2004 by a group of 70 young instrumentalists.
Its debut concert was held in the great auditorium of the Rivoli Theater in Oporto,
at the first of January 2005, where its first CD was also recorded. This project has
had a great support by Culturporto and later on by PortoLazer in its diffusion and
expansion. In April 2010, the album “A Portuguesa” was recorded, exclusively
containing Portuguese authors’ pieces, in a concert held in the auditorium of the
Oporto Engineering College.
Since January 2007, the BSP has been invited, by the Casa da Música Foundation,
to play regularly in the Guilhermina Suggia’s Room, where it has been performing a
collection of original works from international reputed composers, some of them in their
first audition.
that, in good measure, they continue being the current. The theme of the work
of Shakespeare gives me foot to play with an extensive range of environmental
musical effects, that go since the mysterious thing and dramatic, to the lyrical thing
and sentimental, permitting me, besides, to maximize the contrasts of all types.
Although each one of the three movements of the ones that the work is evident
has a descriptive title, one must seek in her no narrative element but, a recreation
of environments or personages that, I believe, has something of theatrical in inself.
The same title of Symphony one must understand it since a conception mahleriana
of total integration, without apparent links with the form classical symphony. The
first movement, “Apparition” describes the environment of nocturnal mystery in
the battlements of the castle of Elsinor, with Hamlet expecting the arrival of the
spectrum of its father. Distant trumpets and echoes of courteous dances rise since
the main room of the palace and they contrast with the black thoughts of the young
Danish prince. The second movement,” Monolog”, describes the doubts of Hamlet
with respect to the existence, as well as a touched memory of its father dead (¿or
murdered?) The fury and the desire of revenge they explode toward the end. In
the third part, “Insanity”, Hamlet causes he passes for demented to unmask the
murderers of their father, bringing the death to the ones that they surround him. It
contemplates the funeral procession of its promised Ophelia and is embroiled in a
ferocious sorrow to sword that concludes with its own death.
Suite Para Banda
Bob Vos, Edição Revista por Ton van Grevenbroek
Suite para Banda de Bob Vos foi escrita em 1962, em comissão do departamento
de cultura holandesa. No início de 1963, ele terminou a obra e Molenaar poderia
publicar a Suite de quatro partes. Vos conseguiu combinar a forma moderna
e tradicional de compor. Na comissão de “Kunstfactor”, as edições Molenaar
conseguiram publicar uma edição revista por Ton van Grevenbroek.
The Portuguese Symphonic Band
Na terceira parte, “Loucura”, Hamlet finge estar louco para desamascarar
os assassinos do seu pai, trazendo a morte para aqueles que o rodeiam. Fica
contemplando o funeral da sua noiva Ophelia e envovle-se num duelo feroz com a
espada que termina com sua própria morte.
Born in Albatera (Alicante, Spain), Quinto Serna is a composer, pianist and
director of band and orchestra. Is in possession of the titles of Upper Professor of
Composition (with the career end prize) piano, cello, conducting (with mention of
honor) and of the tuba-tuba professor title. Among their musical production, with
a catalogue of more than 90 works, they occupy a noticeable place them dedicated
to the symphonic band, with titles as: Suite Sencilla, Orión, (piece obliged in the
1ª section of the Contest of Bands of Murcia 2005 and in the Contests of the
Provincial Delegations of the Valencian Community, 2009) Nocturnal, Rapsodia
Hernandiana and Sinfonía Hamlet, (piece obliged in II Contest of Bands “City of
Torrevieja”, 2008). It has written and directed the orchestral music for the ballet
The She-devil, premiered with great success in Orihuela and Paris. Its works figure
in various you yield and some of them they are published in the editorial Spaniards
Omnes Bands, Rivera, Piles, Tot Per L’ air, Brotons and Mercadal, and in the
Dutch one Molenaar Editions. As the director of the Musical Union the Aurora
of Albatera, has engraved 3 CD’ s and obtained diverse rewards, as the recent one
1er Prize in the Contest of Cullera, 2009, as well as the Prize to the best Director in
said Contest. It has obtained numerous prizes of composition, among the ones that
they can be emphasized: International prize of composition choir “Juan Bautista
Comes” of Segorbe, 2002, 1er prize in the Ier international contest of symphonic
composition “City of Torrevieja, 2003”, 1er Prize and honorable mention in the XI
Contest “Village of Benidorm, 2005”, Prize Matilde Salvador choir composition,
Valencia 2005, Prize Ciutat of Girona 2005, Prize of composition for the festivals
of San Fermín in Pamplona (2008), Prize Choir “Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Soria
2009, 1er prize Of the III International Contest of Symphonic Composition
for Band “Village of Muro”, 2010, 1er Prize of the Association of Moorish and
Christian Sant Jordi of Alcoy, 2011, finalist in the Contest of Composition of the
Spanish Confederacy of Bands, 2011, etc. Currently is a professor of harmony,
orchestra, musical data processing and analysis in the Professional Conservatory
“Pedro Terol” of Orihuela, and director of the Band Musical Union The Aurora
of Albatera.
The Symphony Hamlet is written, in its greater part, in the years that go from
1995 to 1999, although incorporates a lot more old materials. It is a species of
summary of what had learned during my years of student in the Upper Conservatory
of Murcia and includes, of a very eclectic form, all my musical interests of then
Throughout its first six years of activity, the BSP, in the majority of its concerts, granted
the presentation of talented soloists, such as Paulo Areias (Oboe), João Pedro Santos,
Diogo Ferreira and Vicente Alberola (Clarinet), Nuno Simões (Percussion), Jean-Yves
Fourmeau, Gilberto Bernardes, Hugo Marinheiro, Filipe Fonseca, Ricardo Pires and
Mário Marques (Saxophone), Jorge Almeida, Hugo Santos, Telmo Barbosa, Pierre
Dutôt and Manuel Luís Azevedo (Trumpet), Ricardo Matosinhos and Hélder Vales
(Horn), Marco Rascão and Nuno Martins (Trombone), Sérgio Carolino (Tuba),
Marco Pereira (Violoncello), Fernando Marinho and Herlânder Sousa (Flute), José Luís
Represas (Bagpipes); it also enabled the Oporto Saxophone Quartet, the Carnyx Metal
Quintet and the Avant-Garde Wind Quintet to perform in these concerts.
Another purpose of this Band is to take forward the pedagogical initiative in order to
create instrument masterclasses with well-known artistic teachers as well as Conducting
Band Direction Courses (already counting with 9 editions), supervised by the prestigious
Conductors Marcel van Bree, Jan Cober (Netherlands) Douglas Bostock (U.K.), José
Rafael Vilaplana (Spain) e Eugene Corporon (U.S.A.).
Internationally well-known conductors such as Jan Cober, Douglas Bostock, José Rafael
Vilaplana, Alex Schillings and Eugene Corporon conducted the BSP with huge success,
having considered this project as being extraordinary and of a great cultural richness to
Portugal. In fact, the BSP has been receiving the best critics, not only from the public
in general but also from prestigious national and foreign musicians. Alberto Roque,
Fernando Marinho and Avelino Ramos, young Portuguese conductors, have also
conducted this orchestra.
This Band has been playing throughout the main theatres of Spain: “Teatro Monumental
de Madrid” (RTVE) “Teatro Principal de Pontevedra” (Galicia) and “Rosalia de Castro”
(Corunha) and has participated in the International Exhibitions of Boqueixón and Vila
de Cruces (Spain).
In April 2008, the BSP won the first prize in the II International Band Contest of La
Sénia in Catalunha (Spain) in the first section and at the same time the first prize in the
superior category (Concert Division) of the World Music Contest in its 60th anniversary
in Kerkrade (Netherlands) in October 2011, with the highest grade ever given in all the
editions of this contest which is considered to be “The World Cup of Bands”.
The BSP is a non-profitable cultural association, supported by the Costa Cabral Music
Academy – Oporto (an official Music School financed by the Ministry of Education), by
the Oporto Music Conservatory and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture.
The artistic direction is managed by Conductor Francisco Ferreira.
Francisco Ferreira
Francisco Ferreira has made an artistic journey which has been characterized by its
multidisciplinary nature.
He graduated in Saxophone at the Oporto and the Limoges (France) Music
Conservatories, and also at the Lisbon High Music School with the highest grades.
He also studied with René Decouais and several other prestigious saxophonists,
such as Daniel Deffayet, Claude Delangle, Jean-Yves Fourmeau and Vicent David.
Francisco Ferreira developed an important saxophone class, in the Oporto Music
Conservatory, in the Professional Music School of Espinho and in the Music
Academy of Costa Cabral, with many of his pupils being awarded in national and
international contests. He is also considered to be one of the main responsible for
the recognition of the saxophone as an important instrument in Portugal.
In these last years, he has been
committed himself to the development
of the wind orchestras, which has
made him to work alongside Jan
Cober, Robert Houlhian, Marc Tadue,
Eugene Corporon, Douglas Bostock
and José Rafael Pascual Vilaplana in
the orchestra conduction. He has also
concluded the Orchestra Conduction
Mastership, in the Royal Conservatory
Dutch of Maastricht, in 2007.
He was awarded with a scholarship by
the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
and of the Camões Institute; he was
prizewinner of the Eng.º António de
Almeida Foundation and winner of the
“Ouvir e Falar” Contest, presented by
conductor António Vitorino d’Almeida,
in RTP.
He took part in several concerts from
north to south of Portugal, Madeira and
Azores islands, as well as abroad: France,
Ireland, Austria, Spain, Belgium, the
Francisco Ferreira Netherlands, Brazil, Switzerland and Macau.
Samuel Pascoal é clarinetista e compositor da Banda da Armada Portuguesa e
estuda Direcção na Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa.
Sinfonia Hamlet
Santiago Quinto Serna
Maestro, compositor e pianista, Santiago Quinto Serna, natural de Albatera
(Alicante, Espanha), estudou ainda violoncelo, tuba e bombardino.
Premiado em vários concursos internacionais de composição, entre a sua produção
musical, conta-se un catálogo com mais de 90 obras, destacando-se as obras para
banda sinfónica Suite Sencilla, Orión, Nocturnal, Rapsodia Hernandiana e Sinfonía
Hamlet.
Várias das suas obras encontram-se editadas na Omnes Bands, Rivera, Piles, Tot
Per L’aire, Brotons, Mercadal e Molenaar Editions.
A Sinfonía Hamlet foi escrita entre 1995 e 1999. Trata-se de uma espécie de
compêndio do que aprendeu enquanto estudante no Conservatório Superior de
Múrcia. O tema da obra de Shakespeare foi o mote para a criação de uma ampla
gama de efeitos musicais que vão desde o misterioso ao dramático, pasando pelo
lírico e sentimental, explorando o extremo do contraste do todo o tipo.
Cada um dos três andamentos que compõem a obra tem um título descritivo,
não havendo lugar a qualquer narrativa, mas antes a uma recriação de ambientes
e personagens que incorporam algo teatral. O próprio título da Sinfonia é para ser
entendido numa perspectiva de plena integração maleriana sem vínculos aparentes
com a forma sinfonia clássica.
O primeiro andamento “Aparência” descreve a atmosfera da noite mistério sobre
as ameias do castelo Elsinore com Hamlet à espera do fantasma do seu pai. Ecos
distantes de trombetas e danças da corte a partir do salão principal do palácio
contrastam com os pensamentos obscuros do jovem príncipe dinamarquês.
O segundo andamento, “Monólogo”, descreve as dúvidas de Hamlet quanto à
existência, bem como uma memória emocional de seu falecido pai (assassinado?),
raiva e desejo de vingança.
Suite No. 1
A “Suite para Orquestra de Sopros” tem três partes. O introdução “Symphonic
Movement” é baseada em duas ideias musicais opostas. A primeira é cromática,
enquanto que a segunda é bastante harmonizada diatonicamente. O “Nocturne”,
ou segunda parte, contrasta com a parte anterior e está escrito na tonalidade menor.
A atmosfera tranquila na final do “Nocturne” é abruptamente interrompida pela
“Toccata”. Esta parte, um “Vivace”, levando a um “Presto” no final, tem um carácter
selvagem e apaixonado. Esta obra foi escrita no Inverno de 1995/96 e foi escolhida
pelo professor Alfred Reed para primeira apresentação pela Orquestra de Sopros
do Exército Suíço em Interlaken em Abril de 1996. A obra consiste em três partes
e uma coda.
É constituída sinfonicamente de pequenos motivos básicos que são colados numa
densa miscela. Na tradição da música barroca, a Toccata era uma forma livre para dar
ao compositor a ocasião para demonstrar o virtuosismo dos jogadores. A presente
obra corresponde de certa forma a esta ideia, na medida em que, também pode ser
considerado como fantasia. Embora a música não obedeça a qualquer programa
poético, o carácter do trabalho pode ser descrito como sombrio e apaixonado. O
desenvolvimento permanente dos motivos lembra ao ouvinte um Perpetuum
Mobile, especialmente nas partes finais da obra.
He played solo with the Oporto Symphonic Orchestra (RDP), the Oporto Classic
Orchestra, the Madeira Classic Orchestra; he also played solo with bands such
as: the Portuguese Symphonic Band, the Curitiba Band (Brasil) and the Coruña
Municipal Band (Spain) and also with the Portuguese Saxophone Orchestra. He
still works together with the “Oficina Musical”, the “Orquestra Nacional do Porto”
and “Orquestra Gaudeamus”.
As a conductor, he conducted the Symphonic Bands of Guarda Nacional
Republicana (Lisbon), of Covilhã, of the Oporto Music Conservatory, of the Inatel
Wind Orchestra (Algarve), of the Vermoim Philharmonic (Maia), the Orchestra
of the European Union Harmony, the Aargau Symphonic Orchestra (Switzerland),
the Portuguese Symphonic Band, the Rundfunk-Blasorchester Leipzig (Germany),
the Tatuí Symphonic Band (São Paulo, Brazil), the Vitória – Gasteiz Municipal
Band (Spain), and several bands of Trofa, Cinfães and Espinho. In this area, he was
the winner of the Manuel Ivo Cruz Contest (Maia), of the International La Sénia
Contest (Spain) and of the World Music Contest, in Kerkrade (Netherlands), in the
superior category and with the highest grade of all the editions.
He is a saxophone teacher and he coordinates the wind and percussion department
of the Oporto Music Conservatory. He is also the Pedagogic Headmaster of the
Costa Cabral Music Academy (Oporto) and founder member of the Oporto
Saxophone Quartet and the Portuguese Symphonic Band.
Besides his artistic career, he graduated in Law, in 1994, in the Universidade
Católica Portuguesa.
Concertino for Piccolo and Band
Fernando Marinho
Concertino for Piccolo and Band é uma obra encomendada e dedicada a Fernando
Marinho.
Tenta retratar musicalmente um pouco daquilo que é o Fernando... Enérgico,
sempre com vontade de fazer e querer e por outro lado romântico e nostálgico.
Com temas enérgicos e giocosos, reminiscências da herança ibérica, passando pela
dor do romantismo a beleza e nostalgia do intangível e acabando, mais uma vez, de
forma enérgica e brilhante.
Esta é a minha forma de homenagear este grande amigo e músico português.
Manuel Fernando Teixeira Marinho da Costa was born in Amarante (Portugal),
where he began his musical studies.
He graduated in flute at the Oporto Conservatory of Music, Lisbon HighSchool of
Music and National Academy of Orchestra.
He got a degree in Primary Education, was fellow of the Erasmus program under
which he studied music pedagogy at the Paedagogische Akademie der Dioseze
Linz and attended classes as an external student at the Bruckner Konservatorium
(Austria).
Oliver Waespi
Samuel Pascoal
Piccolo
As a flutist he developed an intense activity as a soloist and orchestra musician,
having played with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra,
North Orchestra, Algarve Orchestra, Remix Ensemble, European Union Youth
Wind Orchestra, Youth Symphony Orchestra, among many others.
For nine years he was a flute soloist of the Symphonic Band of the Public Security
Police. He has performed in solo concerts with the Portuguese Symphonic Band,
Wind Orchestra of the Lisbon HighSchool of Music and the Symphonic Band of
the Public Security Police.
He won the 1st Prize Young Players Marão - Adesco and the 3rd Prize of Young
Musicians in Chamber Music RDP - High Level.
He is a flute teacher at Music Academy of Santa Cecília , and since 2010 he is the
conductor of the Orchestra of Oporto Conservatory of Music and teaches at the
HighSchool of Education Jean Piaget - Arcozelo.
Manuel Fernando studied conducting with Jan Cober, at the Zuid-Nederlandse
Hogeschool voor Muziek - Conservatorium Maastricht (Netherlands), where he
graduated with a Masters in Wind Orchestra Conducting.
He attended flute masterclasses with William Bennett, Trevor Wye, Patrick Gallois,
Michel Debost, Sophie Perrier, Vincens Prats,
Istvan Matuz, Averil Williams, Jean Ferrandis,
Jorge Caryevschi, Marco Hantai (traverso) and
conducting with Jean-Sebastien Béreau, Douglas
Bostock, Jose Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana, Roberto
Montenegro, Baldur Bronniman, Eugene
Corporon Migliaro and Ernst Schelle, among
others.
He conducted the Sintra Chamber Orchestra,
Portuguese Symphonic Band, Beiras Philharmonic
Orchestra, Algarve Wind Orchestra, Fanfare
Orchestra of the Professional School of Music
in Espinho, Wind Orchestra Conservatory of
Music D. Dinis, Music Band Cultural Salceda of
Caselas (Spain) and Symphonisches Blasorchester
Muzikkorps der Bundeswehr (Germany).
Since 2005 Manuel Fernando is the Artistic
Director of Recreation and Musical Group Fernando Marinho Famalicão Band.
Estudou direcção com o Maestro Jan Cober, na Zuid-Nederlandse Hogeschool
voor Muziek – Conservatorium Maastricht (Holanda), onde se diplomou com o
Mestrado em Direcção de Orquestra de Sopros.
Frequentou masterclasses de flauta com William Bennett, Trevor Wye, Patrick
Gallois, Michel Debost, Sophie Perrier, Vincens Prats, Istvan Matuz, Averil
Williams, Jean Ferrandis, Jorge Caryevschi, Marco Hantai (traverso) e de direcção
com Jean-Sebastien Béreau, Douglas Bostock, José Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana,
Roberto Montenegro, Baldur Bronniman, Eugene Migliaro Corporon e Ernst
Schelle, entre outros.
Dirigiu a Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras, Orquestra de Câmara de Sintra, Banda
Sinfónica Portuguesa, Orquestra de Sopros do Algarve, Fanfare Orquestra da
Escola Profissional de Música de Espinho, Orquestra de Sopros do Conservatório
de Música D. Dinis, Banda de Música Cultural de Salceda de Caselas (Espanha) e
Symphonisches Blasorchester Muzikkorps der Bundeswehr (Alemanha).
Desde 2005 é o director artístico do Grupo Recreativo e Musical – Banda de
Famalicão.
Halewijn
Gerard Boedijn/Revised by Eric Swiggers
Halewijn é um poema sinfónico sobre Lorde Halewijn, ladrão de mulheres, que é
por fim morto por uma.
Este poema foi posto em música por Gerard Boedijn. Este considerou esta obra
uma das suas melhores.
Por meio de temas enérgicos Boedijn leva-nos através do poema épico. Além
do motivo polido há o motivo da filha do rei em contratema. Num momento, a
princesa cavalga, na sua melhor roupa, no seu melhor cavalo, procurando Lorde
Halewijn. Na floresta se encontram. Como agora sabemos, a lendas termina em
vitória para a princesa. Isto é colocado lindamente numa coda festiva. Molenaar
apresenta, 70 anos após a primeira publicação e em comissão de “Kunstfactor”, uma
edição completamente revista por Eric Swiggers.
Fernando Marinho
Halewijn
Manuel Fernando Teixeira Marinho da Costa nasceu em Amarante, onde iniciou
os seus estudos musicais.
É diplomado com os cursos de flauta do Conservatório de Música do Porto, Escola
Superior de Música de Lisboa e Academia Nacional Superior de Orquestra.
Licenciado em Ensino Básico, foi bolseiro do Programa Erasmus ao abrigo do qual
estudou pedagogia musical na Paedagogische Akademie der Dioseze Linz (Áustria).
Paralelamente, frequentou aulas como aluno externo no BrucknerKonservatorium
Linz.
Como flautista desenvolve uma actividade intensa, como solista ou em orquestra,
tendo tocado com a Orquestra Gulbenkian, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa,
Orquestra do Norte, Remix Ensemble, Orchestre d’Harmonie de Jeunes de l’Union
Européenne, Orquestra Sinfónica Juvenil, Orquestra Nacional de Sopros dos
Templários, entre muitas outras.
Durante nove anos foi solista da Banda Sinfónica
da Polícia de Segurança Pública. Apresentouse em concertos a solo com a Banda Sinfónica
Portuguesa, Orquestra de Sopros da Escola
Superior de Música de Lisboa e banda Sinfónica
da Polícia de Segurança Pública.
Foi vencedor do 1º Prémio Jovens Instrumentistas
do Marão – Adesco e do 3º Prémio Jovens
Músicos da RDP em Música de Câmara – Nível
Superior.
É professor de flauta na Academia de Música
de Santa Cecília e, desde 2010, é o maestro das
Orquestras do Conservatório de Música do Porto
e docente na Escola Superior de Educação do
Instituto Jean Piaget - Arcozelo.
Halewijn is a Medieval symphonic poem about Lord Halewijn , a women’s robber,
who is finally killed himself by a princess.
This poem was set to music by Gerard Boedijn. Boedijn considered this work as
one of his best.
By way of pithy themes Boedijn leads us through the epic poem. Besides the terse
motif there is the king’s daughter motif in a contrary theme. One moment , the
princes rides, in her best outfit, on her the best horse, looking for Lord Halewijn.
In the woods they meet. As we now know the legends ends in a victory for the
princess . This is beautifully put into a festive coda. Molenaar presents , 70 years
after the first publication and in commission of “Kunstfactor”, a completely revised
edition by Eric Swiggers.
Flautim
Fernando Marinho
Gerard Boedijn/Revised by Eric Swiggers
Suite No.1
Oliver Waespi
The “Suite for Wind Orchestra” has three parts. The introductory “Symphonic
Movement” is based on two opposite musical ideas. The first is chromatic, whereas
the second is rather diatonically harmonized. The “Nocturne” or second part is
contrasting with the preceding part and is written in the minor key. The quiet
atmosphere at the end of the “Nocturne” is abruptly interrupted by the “Toccata”.
This part, a “Vivace”, leading into a “Presto” at the end, has a wild, passionate
character. This work has been written in winter 1995/96 and was chosen by
Prof. Alfred Reed for first performance by the Swiss Army Wind Orchestra in
Interlaken in April 1996. The work consist of three parts and a Coda. It is developed
symphonically out of a few basic motives which are tied together in a dense network.
In baroque music tradition, the Toccata was a free form to give the composer the
occasion to demonstrate the virtuosity of the players. The present work corresponds
in a certain way to this idea; in so far, it can also be considered as fantasia. Although
the music does not obey to any poetical program, the character of the work can
be described as dark and passionate. The permanent development of the motives
reminds the listener of a Perpetuum mobile, especially in the final parts of the work.
Concertino for Piccolo and Band
Samuel Pascoal
Concertino for Piccolo and Band is a work commissioned by and dedicated to
Fernando Marinho. You could portray Fernando musically as energetic, always
willing to do and want more and more and on the other hand, romantic and
nostalgic.
With energetic and giocoso themes, reminiscent of Iberian heritage, through the
pain of romance, the beauty and nostalgia of the intangible, and ending, once again,
energetic and bright. This is my way of honoring this great friend and Portuguese
musician.
Samuel Pascoal is clarinet player and composer at Portuguese Navy Band and
studies conducting at Lisbon High School of Music.
Sinfonia Hamlet
Santiago Quinto Serna
Born in Albatera (Alicante, Spain), Quinto Serna is a composer, pianist and director
of bands and orchestras. He is in possession of the titles of Upper Professor of
Composition (with the career end prize) piano, cello, conducting (with mention
of honor) and of the tuba-tuba professor title. Amongst his musical production,
with a catalogue of more than 90 works, he occupes a noticeable place in the world
of symphonic bands, with titles as: Suite Sencilla, Orión, (piece obliged in the 1ª
section of the Contest of Bands of Murcia 2005 and in the Contests of the Provincial
Delegations of the Valencian Community, 2009) Nocturnal, Rapsodia Hernandiana
and Sinfonía Hamlet, (piece obliged in II Contest of Bands “City of Torrevieja”,
2008). He has written and directed the orchestral music for the ballet The Shedevil, premiered with great success in Orihuela and Paris. His works are published
in various places, such as the Spanish editors Omnes Bands, Rivera, Piles, Tot Per
L’ air, Brotons and Mercadal, and at the Dutch Molenaar Edition. As the director
of the Musical Union the Aurora of Albatera, he has engraved 3 CD’ s and obtained
various rewards, as the recent 1st Prize in the Contest of Cullera 2009, as well as
the Prize for the best Director in said Contest. He has obtained numerous prizes
of composition, such as: International prize of composition choir “Juan Bautista
Comes” of Segorbe, 2002, 1st prize in the Ier international contest of symphonic
Nos últimos anos, tem vindo a dedicar-se igualmente ao desenvolvimento das
orquestras de sopro, o que o levou a trabalhar direcção de orquestra com Jan Cober,
Robert Houlhian, Marc Tadue, Eugene Corporon, Douglas Bostock e José Rafael
Pascual Vilaplana, concluindo em 2007 o Mestrado em Direcção de Orquestra no
Royal Conservatory Dutch de Maastricht.
Foi bolseiro da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, do Instituto Camões e premiado
pela Fundação Eng.º. António de Almeida e vencedor do Concurso «Ouvir e Falar»
da responsabilidade do Maestro António Vitorino d’Almeida, apresentado pela
RTP.
Apresentou-se em vários concertos de norte a sul do país, Açores e Madeira, bem
como no estrangeiro: França, Irlanda, Áustria, Espanha, Bélgica, Holanda, Brasil,
Suíça e território de Macau.
Tocou a solo com a Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto (RDP), Orquestra Clássica do
Porto e da Madeira, Bandas Sinfónica Portuguesa, Curitiba (Brasil), e Municipal da
Corunha (Espanha) e ainda com a Orquestra Portuguesa de Saxofones. Colaborou
ainda com a Oficina Musical, Orquestra Nacional do Porto e Orquestra Gaudeamus.
Como maestro, dirigiu as Bandas Sinfónicas da Guarda Nacional Republicana
(Lisboa), da Covilhã, do Conservatório de Música do Porto, Orquestra de Sopros
do Inatel, do Algarve, Filarmonia de Vermoim – Maia, Orquestra de Harmonia
da União Europeia, Aargau Symphony Orchestra (Suíça), Banda Sinfónica
Portuguesa, Rundfunk-Blasorchester Leipzig (Alemanha), Banda Sinfónica de
Tatuí (São Paulo, Brasil) Banda Municipal de Vitória – Gasteiz (Espanha), Bandas
de Música da Trofa, Cinfães e Espinho. Nesta área, foi vencedor do 1º Prémio
do Concurso Manuel Ivo Cruz (Maia), II Concurso Internacional de La Sénia
(Espanha), e World Music Contest em Kerkrade (Holanda) na categoria superior e
com a mais alta classificação de todas as edições.
É professor de saxofone e coordenador do departamento de sopros e percussão do
Conservatório de Música do Porto, acumulando funções como Director Pedagógico
na Academia de Música de Costa Cabral – Porto. É ainda membro fundador do
Quarteto de Saxofones do Porto e da Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa.
Paralelamente à sua carreira artística, licenciou-se em Direito em 1994 pela
Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
Maestros internacionalmente reputados como Jan Cober, Douglas Bostock, José
Rafael Vilaplana, Alex Schillings e Eugene Corporon dirigiram a BSP com enorme
sucesso, tendo considerado este projecto como extraordinário e de uma riqueza
cultural enorme para Portugal. Aliás, a BSP tem vindo a receber até ao momento
as melhores críticas, não só do público em geral, como também de prestigiados
músicos nacionais e estrangeiros. Alberto Roque, Fernando Marinho e Avelino
Ramos, jovens maestros portugueses dirigiram também esta orquestra.
Destacam-se a realização de concertos nos principais teatros de norte a sul do país,
Teatro Monumental de Madrid (RTVE) Teatro Principal de Pontevedra (Galiza)
e Rosalia de Castro (Corunha) e participações nos Certames Internacionais de
Boqueixón e Vila de Cruces (Espanha).
A BSP obteve em Abril de 2008 o 1º prémio no II Concurso Internacional de
Bandas de La Sénia na Catalunha (Espanha) na 1ª secção e igualmente o 1º prémio
na categoria superior (Concert Division) do 60º aniversário do World Music Contest
em kerkrade na Holanda em Outubro de 2011, com a mais alta classificação alguma
vez atribuída em todas as edições deste concurso que é considerado o “campeonato
do mundo de bandas”.
A Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa é uma Associação cultural, sem fins lucrativos, apoiada
pela Academia de Música de Costa Cabral – Porto (escola de ensino especializado
da música oficializada pelo Ministério da Educação), pelo Conservatório de Música
do Porto e financiada pela Direcção Geral das Artes do Ministério da Cultura.
A direcção artística está a cargo do Maestro Francisco Ferreira.
Francisco Ferreira
Francisco Ferreira tem um percurso artístico que o tem vindo a destacar com uma
carreira multidisciplinar.
É diplomado em Saxofone pelos Conservatórios de Música do Porto, de Limoges
– França e Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa com as mais altas classificações,
tendo estudado com René Decouais e ainda com os prestigiados saxofonistas Daniel
Deffayet, Claude Delangle, Jean-Yves Fourmeau e Vincent David.
Teve o mérito de desenvolver em Portugal designadamente no Conservatório de
Música do Porto, na Escola Profissional de Música de Espinho e na Academia de
Música de Costa Cabral, uma importante classe de saxofone com imensos alunos
premiados em concursos nacionais e internacionais, sendo considerado um dos
principais responsáveis pela afirmação do saxofone neste país.
composition “City of Torrevieja, 2003”, 1st Prize and honorable mention in the XI
Contest “Village of Benidorm, 2005”, Prize Matilde Salvador choir composition,
Valencia 2005, Prize Ciutat of Girona 2005, Prize of composition for the festivals
of San Fermín in Pamplona (2008), Prize Choir “Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Soria
2009, 1st prize Of the III International Contest of Symphonic Composition
for Band “Village of Muro”, 2010, 1st Prize of the Association of Moorish and
Christian Sant Jordi of Alcoy, 2011, finalist in the Contest of Composition of the
Spanish Confederacy of Bands, 2011, etc. Currently Quinto Serna is a professor
of harmony, orchestra, musical data processing and analysis at the Professional
Conservatory “Pedro Terol” of Orihuela, and director of the Band Musical Union
The Aurora of Albatera.
Symphony Hamlet was written, for most part, between 1995 and 1999, although
it incorporates a lot of old materials. It is a summary of what I have learned during
my years as a student in the Upper
Conservatory of Murcia and includes,
in a very eclectic way, all my musical
interests of then that, in good measure,
continue to be so these days. The
themes of Shakespeares work give me
foot to play with an extensive range
of environmental musical effects, that
go from mysterious to dramatic, and
from lyrical to sentimental, permitting
me to maximize the contrasts of all
types. Although each one of the three
movements in Symphony Hamlet has
a descriptive title, one must not seek a
narrative element in it, but a recreation
of environments or personages. The title
of Symphony one should understand as
the conception of total integration, like
with Mahler, without apparent links
with the classical symphony form. The
first movement, “Apparition”, describes
the environment of nocturnal mystery
in the battlements of the castle of
Elsinore, with Hamlet expecting the
Francisco Ferreira
arrival of the ghost of his father. Distant
trumpets and echoes of courteous dances rise from the main room of the palace
and they contrast with the black thoughts of the young Danish prince. The second
movement, “Monolog”, describes the doubts of Hamlet about The Existence, as
well as a touched memory of his father’s death (or murder). The fury and the desire
for revenge explode towards the end. In the third part, “Insanity”, Hamlet passes
for demented to unmask the murderers of his father, bringing the death to the ones
that surround him. He contemplates the funeral of his Ophelia and is embroiled in
ferocious sorrow to end in his own death.
Suite for Concert Band
Bob Vos, Revised Edition by Ton van Grevenbroek.
Suite for concert band by Bob Vos was written in 1962 in commission of the Dutch
department of culture. In the beginning of 1963 he completed the assignment
and Molenaar could publish the four part Suite. Vos did succeed to combine
the modern and traditional way of composing. In commission of “Kunstfactor “
Molenaar Edition was able to publish a revised edition by Ton van Grevenbroek .
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Ao longo dos seis primeiros anos de actividade, a BSP possibilitou, na maioria dos
seus concertos, a apresentação de talentosos solistas, entre os quais, Paulo Areias
(Oboé), João Pedro Santos, Diogo Ferreira e Vicente Alberola (Clarinete), Nuno
Simões (Percussão), Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Gilberto Bernardes, Hugo Marinheiro,
Filipe Fonseca, Ricardo Pires e Mário Marques (Saxofone), Jorge Almeida,
Hugo Santos, Telmo Barbosa, Pierre Dutôt e Manuel Luís Azevedo (Trompete),
Ricardo Matosinhos e Hélder Vales (Trompa), Marco Rascão e Nuno Martins
(Trombone), Sérgio Carolino (Tuba), Marco Pereira (Violoncelo), Fernando
Marinho e Herlânder Sousa (Flauta), José Luís Represas (Gaita de Foles), Quarteto
de Saxofones do Porto, Quinteto de Metais Carnyx e Quinteto de Sopros AventGarde.
Outros objectivos passam pela iniciativa pedagógica de levar a cabo masterclasses
de instrumento com professores de reconhecido mérito artístico, bem como Cursos
de Direcção de Banda (contando já com 9 edições) orientados pelos prestigiados
Maestros Marcel van Bree, Jan Cober (Holanda) Douglas Bostock (Inglaterra), José
Rafael Vilaplana (Espanha) e Eugene Corporon (E.U.A.).
Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa
Sediada no Porto, a Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa foi criada em Novembro de 2004
por um grupo de cerca de 70 jovens instrumentistas.
A BSP teve o seu concerto de apresentação no dia 1 Janeiro de 2005 no grande
auditório do Teatro Rivoli do Porto onde também gravou o seu primeiro CD, tendo
entretanto recebido um importante apoio por parte da Culturporto e mais tarde da
PortoLazer na divulgação e expansão do seu projecto. Em Abril de 2010, lançou o
seu álbum “A Portuguesa” com obras exclusivamente de compositores portugueses,
num concerto realizado no auditório da Faculdade de Engenharia do Porto.
A partir de Janeiro de 2007, a BSP é convidada pela Fundação Casa da Música
a apresentar-se regularmente na Sala Guilhermina Suggia, onde tem vindo a
interpretar regularmente um conjunto de obras originais de compositores de renome
mundial, algumas delas até em primeira audição.
The Portuguese Symphonic Band