The UC Music Institute returns to GAM with a concert dedicated to the one hundred and fiftieth birthday of French composer Maurice Ravel. A tribute that covers his vocal and choral work alongside outstanding performers and the UC Student Choir.
The one hundred and fiftieth birthday of Maurice Ravel will be celebrated on October 8 through a camera portrait of his vocal production, by three professors from the UC Music Institute: the soprano Claudia Pereira and Eun Seong Hong (piano), together with the UC Student Choir, under the direction of Felipe Ramos Taky. This cast will open the day performing Trois Chansons (1914–15), the composer's only a cappella choral work.
The program will continue with a tribute to Gabriel Fauré, Ravel's teacher at the Paris Conservatory, with four of his most recognized pieces: Chanson d’amour, Au bord de l’eau, Les berceaux and Après un rêve.
Then, Pereira and Hong will address different creative stages of Ravel, from the youthful Ballade de la reine morte d’aimer to the Five Greek Popular Melodies (1904–06). They will also perform Deux mélodies hébraïques (1914), Rêves (1899)—with texts by Léon-Paul Fargue—and the famous Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera (1907), which will close the concert.
A master of color, who extended the resources of tradition to the maximum: teachers who will pay tribute to Maurice Ravel talk about the vocal production they will address
Soprano Claudia Pereira leads two concerts that will be celebrated on October 7 and 8, at CEO and GAM, the one hundred and fiftieth birthday of the French composer in the UC Chamber Season. Together with Eun Seong Hong on piano they will perform songs from Ravel's various creative periods and the UC Student Choir and Felipe Ramos Taky will join in with their unique example of a cappella music. As a counterpoint, four songs by his teacher, Gabriel Faué, will be heard.
On October 15, it will be the turn of the program “From Mozart to Shostakovich", which will contrast a piece from the 20th century and one from Classicism.
Two great composers in history will be contrasted by the UC Academic Quartet made up of violinists Frida Ansaldi and Gonzalo Beltrán, violist Georgina Rossi and cellist Alejandro Tagle, all professors at the UC Music Institute.
50 years after the death of Dmitri Shostakovich, they will pay tribute to the famous Russian composer by playing his String Quartet No. 3 Op.73. He wrote it in 1946 and shows the impact that the Second World War had on him and his entire country.
Before, the String Quartet No. 19 K.465 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, better known as Dissonance Quartet. It is probably the most famous of his 23 quartets and, without a doubt, it is the most analyzed, due to the unusual counterpoint with which it opens the piece.
UC Academic Quartet contrasts Mozart and Shostakovich: “We are going to present two works that define them as composers,” advances Alejandro Tagle
Two very relevant composers, who lived with a temporal distance of 150 years and with a geographical and cultural distance of more than 2,100 kilometers, will star in the next installment of the 61st UC Chamber Season in what will be the only participation, this year, of the UC Academic Quartet.
