The Petrobras Symphony Orchestra and its Youth Academy are promoting, from the 27th to the 30th of this month, the 2nd Music that Transforms Festival, aimed at providing opportunities for young music students.
Free registration is now open on social networks and can also be done through event website. Students, music professionals, coordinators and teachers of musical social projects can participate.
“The main objective of this festival is the integration between musical social projects”, he told Brazil Agency music teacher and coordinator of the Petrobras Symphonic Orchestra’s Educational Program, Monique Andries. Another objective is the strengthening of social inclusion networks.
Last year, the first edition of the festival took place in an online format and was open only to Brazilians. In this second edition, foreigners will also participate, who will bring experiences from youth orchestras from their countries. THE The festival’s full program can be accessed online..
From April 27th to 29th, round tables will be held in the morning and, in the afternoon, workshops, all in virtual format, with open participation for Brazilians and foreigners. In the evening, face-to-face masterclasses will take place, franchised only to Brazilian students.
The roundtables and workshops will be recorded by the Zoom platform and will be available on YouTube, said Monique Andries.
“There will be four days of intense in-person and online programming that revolve around music and its power to transform socially,” said the project manager of the Petrobras Symphony Orchestra, Marcos Souza.
The workshops will have simultaneous translation and will address issues related to the musician’s routine, such as music publishing programs, the role of the archivist in an orchestra and arrangements for social orchestras. The masterclasses will be related to the following instruments: double bass, with Tony Botelho; bassoon (Ariane Petri); flute (Marcelo Bomfim); trumpet (Vinicius Lugon); viola (Fernando Thebaldi); and violin (Ricardo Amado).
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academy concert – Daniel Ebendinger / All rights reserved
On Saturday (30), the fourth and last day of the festival, from 11 am, in-person integration recitals will be held at Fundição Progresso, in Lapa, downtown Rio de Janeiro, with the following groups: Fundação de Apoio à Escola Técnica, Ciência , Technology, Sports, Leisure, Culture and Social Policies of Duque de Caxias (Fundec), Agência do Bem, Grota String Orchestra, Youth Academy of the Petrobras Symphony Orchestra.
Among the international participants are the Paraguayan Ernesto Estigarribia, from the Quad City Symphony Youth Orchestra (United States); Mario Benzecry, from the Jose de San Martín National Youth Orchestra (Argentina); the Argentine Pablo Pérsico, from the Integrasons Association (Barcelona); and the American Laura Hassler, from Músicos sem Fronteiras (Holland), an organization that operates in Central America, East Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
Among the Brazilians, the violinist Tomaz Soarese and the flutist Sammy Fuks, professors at the Youth Academy of the Petrobras Symphony Orchestra, stand out; Lenora Mendes, from Espaço Cultural da Grota, in Niterói; Vitor Damiani, from Agência do Bem; and Carlinhos Antunes, from Orquestra Mundana Refugi, from São Paulo, also composed of immigrants and refugees of various nationalities living in Brazil.
“The idea is that the festival is a starting point; so that the other projects get to know this work and from there other partnerships emerge”, highlighted Monique Andries. “This is the festival’s objective: to promote its network of knowledge, exchanges, among the various musical social projects that we have in the country”, she added.
