Roberto Duarte

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Roberto Ricardo Duarte (born December 26, 1941 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) is a Brazilian conductor, pianist and musicologist.

Life

After his training, he became a student and assistant to the well-known Brazilian conductors Francisco Mignone and Eleazar de Carvalho . He later continued his education in Italy and Germany. By winning the Serge Koussevitzky Prize at the International Conducting Competition in Rio de Janeiro in 1975, Duarte became internationally known. Since then he has conducted dozens of orchestras in Brazil and Europe, a. a. the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Slovak Symphony Orchestra, with which he recorded several CDs, the Philharmonia Ungarica, the Orchester de la Radio Suisse Romande, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Tchaikowsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow, the Akron Symphony Orchestra ( USA) and the Orchestra Sinfonia di Bari (Italy). In 1996 he received the most important music award in Brazil, the Premio Nacional da Musica, from the Brazilian government for his work as a conductor. Roberto Duarte was chief conductor and artistic director of the Orquestra Sinfônica da UFRJ ( University of Rio de Janeiro ), the Orquestra Sinfônica do Paraná (1998–1999), the Orquestra Unisinos of Sao Leopoldo in Rio Grande do Sul (2003–2005) from 1981–1994. He founded the "Orquestra Sao Pedro do Theatro" in Sao Paulo, was its chief conductor and artistic director (2010–2012).

For 27 years, Duarte was a professor at the University of Rio de Janeiro, giving master classes in various Brazilian states, in Chile, Greece, Switzerland, Italy and Serbia. For 14 years he headed the “Corso Internazionale di Polifonia Latino Mediterranea” in Molfetta / Italy as a professor of conducting.

The majority of the works conducted by Duarte come from prominent Brazilian composers and mainly from Heitor Villa-Lobos - including more than 100 world premieres. In addition to his work as a conductor, Duarte devotes himself to musicology. Among other things, he revised the work "Descobrimento do Brasil" by Villa Lobos for the Max Eschig publishing house.

Duarte is among other things a member of the Academia Brasileira de Música (Brazilian Academy of Music), seat 19, and its vice-president.

Discography

  • Descobrimiento do Brasil (Suites No. 1–4)
  • Symphony No 6 Rudá , Genesis / Erosao / Amazonas and Danca Frenetica / Dancas Afr.
  • New Century Flute Concertos Raffaele Trevisani with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Delos

Publications

  • 1989 Harmonia tradicional (Ed. Do author 1964–1965 and Revisao das Obras orquestrais de Villa Lobos), Vol
  • 1994 Harmonia tradicional (Ed. Do author 1964–1965 and Revisao das Obras orquestrais de Villa Lobos), Vol. II
  • 2009 Villa – Lobos errou? Villa- Lobos s'est trompé? What's Villa-Lobos wrong? Contribution for a musicological revision of Villa-Lobos' work - Algol Verlag

Awards

  • 1975 Serge Koussevitzky Prize
  • 1994 Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte - APCA "Best Conductor of the Year"
  • 1996 "Premio Nacional da Musica"
  • 1997 Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte - APCA "Best Conductor of the Year"
  • 2001 Carlos Gomes Prize for his achievements in the field of opera
  • 2010 Carlos Gomes Prize for his achievements in the field of opera

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ com4brasil - Rodrigo Peixoto Manduano: Roberto Duarte - Academia Brasileira de Música. In: abmusica.org.br. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Duarte, Roberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duarte, Roberto Ricardo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian conductor and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro , Brazil