9th Barcelona Festival of Song®
Summer Program & Concert Series of
Latin-American & Spanish Vocal Repertoire
June 27 - July 6, 2013
The BFOS in Brazil
We have great news!
The Master Classes done between Barcelona and São Paulo using the Internet2 technology were a great success. You can have a look at the pictures of this pionnering event here:
Pictures taken from Sao Paulo:
Pictures taken from Barcelona:
From 2012 the Barcelona Festival of Song its extending is presence to Brazil. This means that students located in São Paulo, Brazil will be able to actively participate in 3 sessions of master class as well as in one concert.
We will be able to reach students in Brazil and for the first time we will have sessions in which students and faculty are simultaneously working in real time in Barcelona and São Paulo. This initiative is done for first time ever and is possible thanks to the Internet2 technology and to the collaboration of important institutions in Brazil and in Barcelona, Spain. We will be exchanging knowledge and making music at the same time in both countries. This is a pioneer project of innovation starting in 2012.
Internet2 is a member-owned advanced technology community founded by international institutions who are leaders in the worlds of research, academia, industry and government, the Internet2 community is developing breakthrough technologies that support the most exacting applications of today—and spark the most essential innovations of tomorrow.
The Barcelona Festival of Song´s partners that makes this possible are the Anella Cultural and the Centro Cultural São Paulo.
The Anella Cultural
A Catalan project lied by the Generalitat de Catalunya who's goal is to establish ways of cultural exchange and to contribute to innovation in education. Another important partner that contributes to this initiative in Barcelona is the Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya, ESMUC.
CCSP
Celebrating 30 years of existence in 2012 the Centro Cultural São Paulo is one of the leading institutions in Brazil in the use of technology applied to education and arts promotion. The CCSP is one of the most important cultural centers in Latin-America and is part of the Anella Cultural Europa - Latinamerica, a group of institutions from five different countries in Latin-America and Spain who are commited to dinamized cultural education and promotion trough the use of new technologies.
Initially planned to shelter an extension of the Biblioteca Mário de Andrade [Mario de Andrade Library], the Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP) has passed, during its building phase, by a series of adaptations to be transformed in one of the first multidisciplinary cultural spaces in Brazil.
The Barcelona Festival of Song
Arriving to its 8ª edition the Barcelona Festival of Song is positioned as the most important space promoting the Latin-American and Spanish Vocal repertoire. Created in 2005 for the purpose of promoting the Latin American & Spanish Vocal Repertoire,the centerpiece of the Barcelona Festival of Song® is a Summer Course for singers, pianists & musicologists focused on the History & Interpretation of the Latin American & Spanish Vocal Repertoire in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese & Catalan; however, the Festival also presents public concerts with well known singers, pianists and guitarists and the participants in the course.
The Barcelona- São Paulo project
The Barcelona Festival of Song´s partners that make this possible are the Anella Cultural, a Catalan project lied by the Generalitat de Catalunya whos goal is to establish ways of cultural exchange and to contribute to innovation in education, the Centro Cultural São Paulo and the Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya, ESMUC.
Thanks to the infrastructure offered by the Anella Cultural, we will be able to reach students in Brazil and for the first time we will have sessions in which students and faculty are simultaneously working in real time in Barcelona and São Paulo. We will be exchanging knowledge and making music at the same time in both countries. This is a pioneer project of innovation starting in 2012.
Master Classes of Art Song in Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese
The Master class sessions that will be broadcast using the Internet2 technology will take place during July 4, 5 and 6, 2012.
On July the 4th and 5th the classes will take place from 16hs to 19hs, Barcelona, time. In this classes there will be conectivity between the CCSP and the ESMUC and previously register singers will have the opportunity to participate in the classes. They have to prepare 2 songs and will have the opportunity to work with teachers located in both cities.
On july 6th there will be a concert, broadcast in real time in Barcelona and Brazil where the students who participated in the master classes will perform to an international audience.
During these 3 days singers will have the opportunity to perfect their interpretation and diction of the vocal repertorires in español, catalan and portugués.
Teachers
In São Paulo teachers are soprano Dr. Martha Herr. She is on the faculty of the UNESP (Universidad Estatal Paulista).
The piano accompanist will be Marizilda Hein, teacher at the Escola Municipal de Música,.
In Barcelona teachers will be soprano and musicologist Patricia Caicedo, tenor Adriano Pinheiro, pianist Donna Loewy and guitarist José Lezcano
Dates and Times
In Brazil
July 4th and 5th, 2012, from 10h til 13hs.
July 6th, from 13h to 15th
In Barcelona
July 4th and 5th, 2012, from 16h until 19h;
July 6th, from 20hs to 22hs
Place
In Brazil
Centro Cultural São Paulo
Rua Vergueiro, 1000 - Liberdade
In Barcelona
Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya
C/Padilla, 155 (Edifici L’Auditori), 08013, Barcelona
How to participate?
In Brazil there are places for 10 active participants and 10 auditors
Registration
If you are a voice student located in São Paulo and would like to participate in the Barcelona Festival of Song 2012 please go to http://www.centrocultural.sp.gov.br/programacao_cursoseoficinas.asp#bfos
In Barcelona you can
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