Pedro Caldeira Cabral

Pedro Caldeira Cabral (* 1950 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese guitarist, virtuoso on the Portuguese guitar , composer and director of various music festivals.

Life

education

As a child he learned the Portuguese guitar, classical guitar and baroque flute. He later studied music theory, counterpoint and harmony with Professor Artur Santos at the National Conservatory of Music in Lisbon. In 1970 he began studying the lute, viola and various plucked and wind instruments of early music.

Artistic career

He founded and directed the ensembles La Batalla and Concerto Atlântico , which specialized in the performance of medieval and renaissance music on contemporary instruments.

As a composer, Pedro Caldeira Cabral developed his own personal style based on the classical solo guitar, combined with the original techniques of traditional instruments and elements of the musical heritage of Mediterranean tradition.

As a virtuoso of Guitarra Portuguesa , he expanded its solo repertoire with transcriptions of the works of JS Bach , SL Weiss , D. Scarlatti , Seixas , S. de Murcia , R. de Visée and many others. He also played world premieres by contemporary composers.

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Research work

He did research in the field of organology of traditional instruments and worked with Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira on the second and third editions of the book Traditional Portuguese Instruments , published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 1982 and 2000. In the same area, he created the complete inventory and the organological classification of the Michel Giacometti collection in the Cascais Music Museum . His book The Portuguese Guitar , published in 1999 by Ediclube in Lisbon, is the first monograph on the origin of the instrument and its historical development, including iconography, organology and repertoire.

Festival management, compositions

Cabral composed original music for theater, cinema, television series and ballet and, as a virtuoso of the Portuguese guitar, has toured extensively in Europe, Asia and the United States of America. He was responsible for the artistic direction of the International Festival of Guitarra Portuguesa at World Expo 98 , which took place in Lisbon. Between 2001 and 2009 he was the director of the Medieval Music Festival in Carrazeda de Ansiães , Portugal. Since 2006 he has been the producer and manager of the Som das Musas festival in Vila Flor , Portugal. In 2007 he was the initiator and idea generator of the 1st International Symposium on the Portuguese Guitar in Coimbra in collaboration with the Orquestra Classico do Centro and the University of Coimbra.

Public interest

He has appeared in television productions at RTP in Portugal, at WDR , ZDF and NDR in Germany, at BBC and Granada TV in Great Britain, at ORTF in France, at VPRO in the Netherlands and at TV Globo and TV Cultura de São Paulo in Brazil.

Sound carrier

A selection of his solo recordings include: Guitarras de Portugal , Tecla (1971), Encontros , Orfeu (1982), A Guitarra nos Salões do Século XVIII , Orfeu (1983), Pedro Caldeira Cabral , EMI (1985), Duas Faces , EMI ( 1987), Guitarra Portuguesa , GHA (1991), Momentos da Guitarra , Fenn Music (1992), Variações , World Network / WDR (1993), Música de Guitarra Inglesa , BMG / RCA Classics (1998), Memórias da Guitarra Portuguesa , Tradisom (2003) and Guitarra Diversa , Mastermix (2004).

Publications (selection)

• 1997: As Madeiras e os Sons in As Idades da Madeira , Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, Lisbon
• 1999: A Guitarra Portuguesa , Ediclube, Amadora
• 1982 and 2000: in Instrumentos Musicais Populares Portugueses , de Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
• 2000: La Guitarra Portuguesa , Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisbon
• 2001: A Construção da Viola Campaniça , in A Viola Campaniça de José Alberto Sardinha, Tradisom, Vila Verde
• 2002: À Descoberta da Guitarra Portuguesa , CM Santo Tirso, Museu Abade de Pedrosa
• 2003: A Guitarra Portuguesa , in Revista CAIS nº 80
• 2004: Michel Giacometti, Uma colecção instrumental in Michel Giacometti: Caminho para um Museu , CM de Cascais
• 2006: Den portugisiska gitarren , in musiken som foddes bortom haven by Thomas Nydhal, Artea Forlag, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2006: A Guitarra Portuguesa in As Idades do Som , Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, Lisbon
• 2006: A Viola Popular em Portugal in As Idades do Som , Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, Lisbon
• 2006: Sonhar um Som Português , in Sonho português , Egoísta, nº 28, Estoril-Sol, SA, Lisbon

Web links

• Pedro Caldeira Cabral's website
• Literature by and about Pedro Caldeira Cabral in the catalog of the German National Library