Music on Thursdays
Fabrício Mattos, guitar Georgia Knower, soprano courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music |
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society |
Programme
Traditional (text
by Robert Burns)
By Yon Castle Wa Henry Purcell (1658-1695) Evening Hymn Traditional, from Somerset O Waly, Waly Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Tell me the truth about love Dimitri Tiomkin & Ned Washington Wild is the Wind (1957) Sonny Burke (music) & Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) Black Coffee (1948) Friedrich Hollaender (1896-1976) Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt Àstor Piazzolla (1921-1992) Milonga de Maria (from Maria de Buenos Aires) All songs arranged by Fabricio Mattos, except ‘O Waly, Waly’, arranged by Britten, transcribed by Gregg Nestor. |
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Fabrício Mattos, guitar
Fabrício Mattos was born in Curitiba, Brazil, and began his musical studies at the age of six, learning percussion and music theory with his father, the saxophonist Elio Mattos. After studies of the flute, violin, and choir, he took classical guitar lessons with Dirceu Saggin, at Paideia Music School, in Curitiba.
In 2006 he graduated Bachelor of Music at the Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná - EMBAP, under the tuition of Luiz Cláudio Ferreira. Fabrício currently lives in London, where he is studying for his MMus - Performance & Research at the Royal Academy of Music having received a scholarship from this institution in recognition of his high artistic standard. At the Royal Academy, he receives musical guidance from musicians including Michael Lewin, Timothy Walker, Christoph Denoth, Fábio Zanon, David Russell, and Julian Bream. In parallel with his academic life, Mattos is creator/artistic director of WGC - Worldwide Guitar Connections.
In 2007 Mattos launched his first CD, "España", with original works by Spanish composers of the 20th century. In that year he played a national tour of concerts in ten Brazilian states. From September to December 2009, Fabrício toured in Brazil as part of the project SESC-Sonora Brasil, performing 87 concerts throughout the country along with guitarist Salomão Habib. Mattos has participated in many recording projects for CDs, DVDs, TV programs, and acting as a soloist or chamber musician with the most varied ensembles. He also worked as producer of the series "Violão em Câmara” and as artistic producer of the series "Musica e Espiritualidade", in Curitiba, in addition to giving lectures and masterclasses in many countries.
Fabrício Mattos was won awards in more than ten national and international competitions, and has also received honours such as "Ivor Mairants Guitar Award” (Worshipful Company of Musicians, London), "Picker Trust Award” (Royal Academy of Music, London) and "Weshow Video Award”. He was the first Brazilian musician ever to be elected a finalist for the prestigious "Alexander Tansman Competition of Musical Personalities," in Łódź, Poland. In 2009 Fabrício was awarded the “Julian Bream Award”, an award for artistic excellence and distinction given in London by the legendary guitarist Julian Bream.
He has collaborated with more than twenty composers of many musical languages over the last few years, and turns his attention to a development and refinement of the musical approach on the guitar through contact with various ways of expression in art. Fabrício acts as a scholar on guitar performance, and performs constantly both as soloist and chamber musician, always looking for a distinguished interpretation that values the artistic message over established patterns. During the coming years he will be involved in many concert tours playing traditional guitar repertoire and premièring many works as part of WGC, and he will also work as a guitar teacher and lecturer in festivals and academic institutions around the world.
Fabrício Mattos has his own comprehensive website on this link.
In 2006 he graduated Bachelor of Music at the Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná - EMBAP, under the tuition of Luiz Cláudio Ferreira. Fabrício currently lives in London, where he is studying for his MMus - Performance & Research at the Royal Academy of Music having received a scholarship from this institution in recognition of his high artistic standard. At the Royal Academy, he receives musical guidance from musicians including Michael Lewin, Timothy Walker, Christoph Denoth, Fábio Zanon, David Russell, and Julian Bream. In parallel with his academic life, Mattos is creator/artistic director of WGC - Worldwide Guitar Connections.
In 2007 Mattos launched his first CD, "España", with original works by Spanish composers of the 20th century. In that year he played a national tour of concerts in ten Brazilian states. From September to December 2009, Fabrício toured in Brazil as part of the project SESC-Sonora Brasil, performing 87 concerts throughout the country along with guitarist Salomão Habib. Mattos has participated in many recording projects for CDs, DVDs, TV programs, and acting as a soloist or chamber musician with the most varied ensembles. He also worked as producer of the series "Violão em Câmara” and as artistic producer of the series "Musica e Espiritualidade", in Curitiba, in addition to giving lectures and masterclasses in many countries.
Fabrício Mattos was won awards in more than ten national and international competitions, and has also received honours such as "Ivor Mairants Guitar Award” (Worshipful Company of Musicians, London), "Picker Trust Award” (Royal Academy of Music, London) and "Weshow Video Award”. He was the first Brazilian musician ever to be elected a finalist for the prestigious "Alexander Tansman Competition of Musical Personalities," in Łódź, Poland. In 2009 Fabrício was awarded the “Julian Bream Award”, an award for artistic excellence and distinction given in London by the legendary guitarist Julian Bream.
He has collaborated with more than twenty composers of many musical languages over the last few years, and turns his attention to a development and refinement of the musical approach on the guitar through contact with various ways of expression in art. Fabrício acts as a scholar on guitar performance, and performs constantly both as soloist and chamber musician, always looking for a distinguished interpretation that values the artistic message over established patterns. During the coming years he will be involved in many concert tours playing traditional guitar repertoire and premièring many works as part of WGC, and he will also work as a guitar teacher and lecturer in festivals and academic institutions around the world.
Fabrício Mattos has his own comprehensive website on this link.
Georgia Knower, soprano
GEORGIA KNOWER graduated with a BMus(Hons) from the University of Edinburgh
and a Postgraduate Diploma in
Performance and the Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music from RAM.
Her soprano roles include Susanna, Marenka, Miss Wordsworth, Stephanie Williams (The Turing Test 2007 - Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and Despina. She performed excerpts as Marzelline and Poppea (Ardingly) and at the RAM: Najade, Catherine, Arminda and Miss Jessel. Georgia recently made her mezzo début as Yawareté, the mystical jaguar in The Moonflower, a new opera (and artistic fusion) about the Amazon rainforest by Brazilian composer, Mario Ferraro in the Tête-à-Tête Festival 2011 in London. She also sang in the Ensemble for Co-Opera's productions of Carmen and The Magic Flute.
Georgia has performed recitals in the UK and further afield in Europe. At RAM, her concerts covered a broad range of repertoire from Brahms to Villa-Lobos. There she achieved the Nan Copeland Award, Ernest Butcher Prize, Toba Mann Award in addition to the Bucher Fraser Scholarship (Edinburgh) and a grant from the Mario Lanza Educational Foundation.
Masterclasses at Ardingly International Summer School include Eugene Asti, Robin Bowman, Ameral Gunson, Richard Jackson, Jonathan Hinden and Hans Peter Blochwitz; in Scotland with Patricia MacMahon, Helen Yorke,Christopher Underwood and Malcolm Martineau; at Jackdaws with Iain Ledingham and Geraldine Frank and at RAM with Lillian Watson, Diane Forlano, Rudolf Jansen,Paul Kiesgen, Jan Philip Schulze, Susan Bullock and Mark Shanahan. Since 2008, she has attended the Boswiler Akademie (Switzerland) working with Hans Peter Blochwitz, Jeanne Roth and Annette Saunders. Recently, she took part in a master-class with conductor, James Holmes organised by Floral Opera.
Last summer, Georgia sung in the Meisterklasse Oper as part of the Internationale Sommerakademie Biel, working with Mathias Behrends, Director of the Schweizer Opernstudio, Brigitte Wohlfarth, Riccardo Bovino and Franceso Addabbo, where she realised scenes from Pikovaya Dama and Radamisto. In September 2012, she studied intensively with German mezzo-soprano, Ingeborg Danz and pianist, Tobias Krampen as part of the Kulturkreis in Arosa, Switzerland, concentrating on Brahms Lieder.
Georgia is also interested in the connection between music and physicality. She has explored this area in physical and vocal improvisational workshops with Opera Erratica working with Artisitc Director, Patrick Eakin Young and composer Chris Mayo, as well as workshops, specifically focusing on operatic repertoire with Sally Burgess, mezzo-soprano and Fiona Bryan, bassoonist and qualified Alexander Teacher.
Georgia recently sang as one of the witches in Verdi's Macbeth at the Konzert Theater, Bern accompanied by the Berner Symphonieorchester. In May 2013, she sang a new piece written for double bass and mezzo-soprano by Benjamin Larner and as the Gopher in Mario Ferraro's chamber opera Ahaiyuta and the Cloud Eater, supported by the Maternik Foundation, which was performed to terminally-ill children. Future performances include recitals with guitarist, Fabrício Mattos as part of The Colours of Eden project and participation in the London Masterclasses with mezzo-soprano, Rosalind Plowright at the Royal College of Music.
Her soprano roles include Susanna, Marenka, Miss Wordsworth, Stephanie Williams (The Turing Test 2007 - Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and Despina. She performed excerpts as Marzelline and Poppea (Ardingly) and at the RAM: Najade, Catherine, Arminda and Miss Jessel. Georgia recently made her mezzo début as Yawareté, the mystical jaguar in The Moonflower, a new opera (and artistic fusion) about the Amazon rainforest by Brazilian composer, Mario Ferraro in the Tête-à-Tête Festival 2011 in London. She also sang in the Ensemble for Co-Opera's productions of Carmen and The Magic Flute.
Georgia has performed recitals in the UK and further afield in Europe. At RAM, her concerts covered a broad range of repertoire from Brahms to Villa-Lobos. There she achieved the Nan Copeland Award, Ernest Butcher Prize, Toba Mann Award in addition to the Bucher Fraser Scholarship (Edinburgh) and a grant from the Mario Lanza Educational Foundation.
Masterclasses at Ardingly International Summer School include Eugene Asti, Robin Bowman, Ameral Gunson, Richard Jackson, Jonathan Hinden and Hans Peter Blochwitz; in Scotland with Patricia MacMahon, Helen Yorke,Christopher Underwood and Malcolm Martineau; at Jackdaws with Iain Ledingham and Geraldine Frank and at RAM with Lillian Watson, Diane Forlano, Rudolf Jansen,Paul Kiesgen, Jan Philip Schulze, Susan Bullock and Mark Shanahan. Since 2008, she has attended the Boswiler Akademie (Switzerland) working with Hans Peter Blochwitz, Jeanne Roth and Annette Saunders. Recently, she took part in a master-class with conductor, James Holmes organised by Floral Opera.
Last summer, Georgia sung in the Meisterklasse Oper as part of the Internationale Sommerakademie Biel, working with Mathias Behrends, Director of the Schweizer Opernstudio, Brigitte Wohlfarth, Riccardo Bovino and Franceso Addabbo, where she realised scenes from Pikovaya Dama and Radamisto. In September 2012, she studied intensively with German mezzo-soprano, Ingeborg Danz and pianist, Tobias Krampen as part of the Kulturkreis in Arosa, Switzerland, concentrating on Brahms Lieder.
Georgia is also interested in the connection between music and physicality. She has explored this area in physical and vocal improvisational workshops with Opera Erratica working with Artisitc Director, Patrick Eakin Young and composer Chris Mayo, as well as workshops, specifically focusing on operatic repertoire with Sally Burgess, mezzo-soprano and Fiona Bryan, bassoonist and qualified Alexander Teacher.
Georgia recently sang as one of the witches in Verdi's Macbeth at the Konzert Theater, Bern accompanied by the Berner Symphonieorchester. In May 2013, she sang a new piece written for double bass and mezzo-soprano by Benjamin Larner and as the Gopher in Mario Ferraro's chamber opera Ahaiyuta and the Cloud Eater, supported by the Maternik Foundation, which was performed to terminally-ill children. Future performances include recitals with guitarist, Fabrício Mattos as part of The Colours of Eden project and participation in the London Masterclasses with mezzo-soprano, Rosalind Plowright at the Royal College of Music.
