Pop&Jazz Konservatorio – Galleria
Hämeentie 133, Helsinki
12.04.2011 – 19.00
Vapaa pääsy!

Garoto: Lamentos do Morro

José E. Gramani: Madeira Verde

Waltel Branco: Chimarrita

Villa-Lobos: Preludio 2 and Estudo 11

Mário da Silva: Compo 2010

Waltel Branco: Chimarrita

Jaime Zenamon: Unicórnio

Edino Krieger: Ritmata 1974

Arthur Kampela: Percussion Study 1 1992

Chico Mello: Do Lado Do Dedo 1987

Mário da Silva, guitarist

Mario da Silva graduated in classical guitar at Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná (EMBAP, 1992) and Master Degree in Music Interpretation at University of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio, 2002). He took part in many guitar festivals. He was finalist in several guitar compettions and as a soloist has performed widely in Brazil, Italy, England, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal and United States. He has also recorded two solo CDs 1997 CD Nova Música Brasileira, 2000 CD música contemporânea brasileira desconstruída sob encomenda, concerning brazilian composers such as Krieger, Gnatalli, Zenamon and Kampela. He has been teaching classical guitar at EMBAP since 1991 and he is artistic director of Embap Academic Guitar Simposium since 2007.

He got a prize to perform Percussion Study 5 for viola allá chitarra by Arthur Kampela at Bienal of Contemporary Music, Rio de Janeiro 2007.
Currently, he is developing projects in partnership with Rocio Infante (choreographer and dancer) where the guitar repertoire is “filtered” through dance, gestures and specific movements inside a multimedia work and it has showed widely in Brazil and Italy.

Since 2009 he has been doing a Doctorate in Composition at University of Campinas (Sao Paulo, Brasil). At the same year, he was also invited to participated of João Cabral de Melo Neto Hommage sponsored by Fundación Cultural Hispano Brasileña in Salamanca, Madrid, Sevilla and Barcelona.