Brazilian Composer Wins Major Classical Music Prize Named For Outstanding Spanish Renaissance Composer Tomás Luis de Victoria
"Marlos Nobre was awarded the sixth Tomás Luis de Victoria Prize on June 15 in Madrid, reports Europa Press.
The 60,000-euro prize is awarded every two years to a composer from a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking country; this year 57 composers were considered by a jury led by Venezuelan conductor José Antonio Abreu.
Nobre has written works for orchestra, percussion ensemble, voice and guitar, cello ensemble and solo instruments. The jury chose him for his "marvelous creativity and the originality of his works," according to Europa Press.
Nobre was born in Brazil in 1939. He studied piano and music theory at the Conservatory of Music of Pernambuco, followed by composition studies at the Latin American Center in Buenos Aires with Ginastera, Messiaen, Malipiero, Copland and Dallapiccola. He also worked with Alexander Goehr and Gunther Schuller at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood.
The composer writes on his website that his "harmonic exploration is based on the belief that it is still possible to discover new harmonic possibilities, independent of twelve-tone technique and even of traditional tonality and consonance. I believe that the chromatic scale has not yet been totally explored and exhausted."
"The most important lesson I learnt," he continues on the site, "was finally understanding the great formal laws of the 18th- and 19th-century classic works, especially Haydn and Beethoven. Serial music, despite the richness of what it can offer, broke with this huge tradition by doing away with the basic principle of repetition, without really bringing to music any real substitute."" ...
Vivien Schweitzer "Brazilian Composer Awarded Tomás Luis de Victoria Prize" PlaybillArts.com June 19, 2006
http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/4770.html
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Also see Finnish film director Mika Kaurismaki's beautiful and powerful 2,500 mile journey to discover the amazing diversity of Brazilian musical culture, Moro No Brasil, (aka "The Sound of Brazil") .
The most outstanding Spanish Renaissance composer Tomás Luis de Victoria's influence continues in the 21st century former 'New World'.
Photo credit: Point Loma Nazerene University, San Diego, California, United States. With thanks.
The 60,000-euro prize is awarded every two years to a composer from a Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking country; this year 57 composers were considered by a jury led by Venezuelan conductor José Antonio Abreu.
Nobre has written works for orchestra, percussion ensemble, voice and guitar, cello ensemble and solo instruments. The jury chose him for his "marvelous creativity and the originality of his works," according to Europa Press.
Nobre was born in Brazil in 1939. He studied piano and music theory at the Conservatory of Music of Pernambuco, followed by composition studies at the Latin American Center in Buenos Aires with Ginastera, Messiaen, Malipiero, Copland and Dallapiccola. He also worked with Alexander Goehr and Gunther Schuller at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood.
The composer writes on his website that his "harmonic exploration is based on the belief that it is still possible to discover new harmonic possibilities, independent of twelve-tone technique and even of traditional tonality and consonance. I believe that the chromatic scale has not yet been totally explored and exhausted."
"The most important lesson I learnt," he continues on the site, "was finally understanding the great formal laws of the 18th- and 19th-century classic works, especially Haydn and Beethoven. Serial music, despite the richness of what it can offer, broke with this huge tradition by doing away with the basic principle of repetition, without really bringing to music any real substitute."" ...
Vivien Schweitzer "Brazilian Composer Awarded Tomás Luis de Victoria Prize" PlaybillArts.com June 19, 2006
http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/4770.html
*
Also see Finnish film director Mika Kaurismaki's beautiful and powerful 2,500 mile journey to discover the amazing diversity of Brazilian musical culture, Moro No Brasil, (aka "The Sound of Brazil") .
The most outstanding Spanish Renaissance composer Tomás Luis de Victoria's influence continues in the 21st century former 'New World'.
Photo credit: Point Loma Nazerene University, San Diego, California, United States. With thanks.
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