Journalist Marina Machado welcomes pianist Marcelo Bratke on the program No Censorship this Monday (1st), in the TV Brazil. The musician and future conductor makes an overview of his trajectory and tells how he overcame the difficulty of being born practically blind and managed to conquer a successful career in music.
Bratke was born in São Paulo in 1960. In his debut with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, in 1976, he won the revelation award from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics. In 1988, he debuted on the European stage at the Salzburg Festival in Austria, and in 1991 he moved to London, England.
The musician created the Villa-Lobos Worldwide project in 2004 to promote the music of what is considered one of the greatest Brazilian composers. In the same year, he created the professional educational program Camerata Brasil, an orchestra made up of young erudite and popular musicians, coming from vulnerable areas, which gave more than 300 concerts in Brazil and abroad.
In partnership with the visual artist Mariannita Luzzati, with whom he is married, he conceived the Cinemúsica project, a multimedia concert that has been presented both in Brazilian prisons and in international concert halls.
Since 2015, Bratke has presented the weekly show Alma Brasileira, about Villa-Lobos, on Rádio Cultura FM, in São Paulo. In 2017, he directed a series of eight documentaries about the composer for the TV channel Arte 1 entitled “O Tempo e Música-Villa-Lobos”. In 2021, he directed and presented a documentary series entitled “Music in My Garden” about Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin.
Bratke was 44 years old when, in 2004, he underwent surgery to recover from a congenital vision problem he suffered from. Since then, she has been able to see with 90% of the vision in one eye and 10% in the other. Before that, the pianist was almost visually impaired and needed to develop auditory memory to learn to play.
This edition of No Censorship counts on the contribution of guest debaters José Roberto Walker, publicist and cultural producer, and Cláudio Cruz, conductor and musical director of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the State of São Paulo.
The program airs on Mondays at 9 pm, right after the soap opera. the promised landwith broadcast throughout the country on open TV through broadcasters affiliated to the National Public Communication Network-TV, managed by Brazil Communication Company (EBC) and through other platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube, where the public can participate using the hashtag #NoCensorship.
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No Censorship – Marcelo Batke
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