Chamber Orchestra plays with soil and direction of Los Santos Carmel

virtuoso violinist, Gaucho Los Santos Carmel will be the soloist and musical director of the concert that the Chamber Orchestra of the City of Curitiba shows on Friday (9/8) it is Saturday (10/8), in the chapel Santa Maria. With an international curriculum, Carmel holds, In addition to the name, a major highlight instrument: a violin Carl Becker 1929.

This will be the first time the musician is ahead of Curitiba group. In the program, another first, Armenia work 88. A peça de Alexander Arutiunian (1920-2012), written in memory of the devastating earthquake that took place in the Armenian city of Spitak, in 1988, enters the repertoire of the Chamber Orchestra of the City of Curitiba for the first time.

Despite having not worked directly with the orchestra, contact has always existed. For four years, Carmel was a professor at Curitiba Music Workshop. "From a young age I come to workshop, before participating as a student and now as a teacher, and always watch the orchestra, so this week has been so rewarding ", account.

The Ciaccona works in G minor, Thomas Vitali (1663-1745), and Serenade for Strings in C Major, de Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), complete the program. "It will be a romantic evening, with short pieces, virtuosity of the lyrical and a bit of Armenian music ", guarantees the musical director.

carmelo, who is a professor at the University of New Mexico, in the United States, He said track the growth of the Chamber Orchestra. "This is an oasis within Brazil, have an orchestra like this there 45 years is rare, mainly chamber. I follow the schedule and it's always interesting and varied, a pride for us, musicians ", concluded.

Biography

Carmelo de los Santos is Brazilian violinist based in the US. Enjoys a busy career as a soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. He has been performing as a guest soloist of several orchestras, among them, a New World Symphony, as sinfônicas de Southern Mississippi, Santa Fe, and New Mexico and Music Orquestra overseas (Rome), besides the main Brazilian symphony.

It won several international competitions, among them the first prize in the IV International Competition of String Instruments Julio Cardona (Portugal).