Summer Classic Festival starts Monday in Lisbon: it is the edition with the largest participation of young musicians
The 8th Classical Festival, which opens on Monday and runs until August 13 in Lisbon, is the edition with the largest participation of young musicians – two hundred -, and concerts, its director, the pianist, told the Lusa agency. Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro.
In this interpretation, scheduled for ten concerts and “the premiere of world-renowned musicians, such as the Ukrainian pianist Milana Chernyavska and Russian violinist Svetlana Makarova, 600 ‘masterclasses’ are programmed, open on technique and music, guided by 15 musicians and a large number of of international representatives, coming from orchestras and conservatories of case professors of the best Americans”, told the agency Lusa Pinto-Ribeiro, director of the Festival.
For this edition “200 young musicians, Portuguese and foreigners were selected”, musicians from three countries: Germany, Austria Armenia, Belgium, Canada, China, South Korea, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, France, Georgia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland , Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United States and Venezuela.
The inaugural concert, next Wednesday, August 3rd, at the Royal Arena in Belém, includes works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Giovanni Bottesini and César Franck, and the participation of sopranp Anna Samuil, soloist at the Berlin State Opera, violinists Pavel Vernikov and Svetlana Makarova, violist Miguel da Silva, cellist Gary Hoffman, bassist Gunars Upatnieks and pianists Konstantin Lifschitz and Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro, director and founder of the Festival Verão Clássico.
To Lusa, Pinto-Ribeiros highlighted the concert “Brahm Fest”, on August 6, at the Picadeiro Real, with Miguel da Silva (viola d’arco), Gary Hoffman (cello), Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro, soprano Anna Samuil, violinist Svetlana Makarova, double bassist Gunars Upatnieks and pianist Konstantin Lifschitz, dedicated to the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), whose pieces will be interpreted as Trio (opus 114), Rhapsody (opus 79), with arrangements by Božo Paradžik , and the Piano Quartet No. 3 (opus 60), and also, by Franz Schubert (1797-1828) “Der Hirt auf dem Felsen” (“The Shepherd on the Rock”).
Pinto-Ribeiro also highlighted the closing concert of the Festival, on August 13, at the Picadeiro, with the interpretation of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nino Rota and Antonín Dvořák, with the participation of clarinetist Pascal Moraguè, violinists Stephan Picard and Philippe Graffin, violist Lars Anders Tomter, cellist Thomas Carroll, flutist Silvia Careddu and pianists Milana Chernyavska and Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro.
Another concert scheduled, also at the Picadeiro, on August 10, at 21:00, “MasterFest”, presents a program with works by Joseph Hayd (1732-1809), Claude Debussy (1862-1918) and Robert Schumann (1810- 1856), performed by the trio Silvia Careddu (flute), Thomas Carroll (cello) and Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro, the duo Philippe Graffin (violin) and Milana Chernyavska (piano), the trio formed by Pascal Moragues (clarinet) and Lars Andres Tomter (viola d’arco) and Filipo-Ribeiro, and the quintet formed by Stephan Picard and Philippe Graffin (violins Anders Tomter (viola d’arco) Thomas Carroll (cello) and Milana Chernyavska (piano).
The Festival brings together, in Lisbon, leading names in classical music with young musicians from conservatories around the world, who participate in more than 500 programmed ‘masterclasses’, and are presented with masters, in various concerts in the afternoon and evening. This year ten concerts are planned.