SUN OCTOBER 27 2013
Mariza CHAN CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT UBC
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“Fado
is the traditional music of Portugal - proud,
austere and deeply melancholic. Mariza is the music’s biggest star for a reason: She sings it not as musty nostalgia but as exuberant twenty-first-century pop, with a low, mesmerizing alto that’s as commanding as any pop singer today...remaking fado’s ancient sadness into a majestic modern sound. ” - Rolling Stone
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Mariza Mariza vocals José Manuel Neto Portuguese guitar Pedro Jóia guitar Vicky Marquez drums YAMI bass SET LIST subject to change:
Promete Jura Fado vianinha Rosa da Madragoa Chuva As meninas dos meus olhos Beijo de saudade Barco Negro Meu fado meu/ Há uma música do povo Instrumental Mais uma lua Primavera D.Rosa Morada aberta Rosa branca Feira de Castro Boa noite Solidão There will be one 20-minute intermission
Please remember to turn off your cell phones, and note that photography and/or recording of any kind is not permitted. Thank you! 3
“I lived in a traditional Lisbon neighbourhood and have always sung the fado – I know what it is, I understand myself through it.” – Mariza 4
Mariza Born in Mozambique, Mariza grew up in Mouraria, one of the oldest traditional neighbourhoods in Lisbon, Portugal. It was there that she first heard fado singers, whose “reminiscences live on in [her] singing”. At five years old, Mariza was already joining in with the spontaneous singing at her parents’ restaurant. Growing up, she became more and more immersed in the culture of the fado tavernas, where singing is a part of everyday life. Despite experimenting with other rhythmic forms of music, Mariza’s career has always revolved around fado. The passionate and bittersweet musical form of fado is perhaps the Portuguese equivalent to blues, rebetika, tango and flamenco. “They all stand on emotions,” explains Mariza. “Fado is an emotional kind of music full of passion, sorrow, jealousy, grief and often satire.” Her first album Fado em mim, released in 2001, went quadruple platinum in Portugal, thrusting Mariza onto the international stage of world music. Her records have since been released in more than thirty-five countries across Europe, North America and South America and she has subsequently toured on four different continents. Mariza boasts an impressive number of awards for national and international recognition of her talent and performance. In March 2003, she was awarded the BBC Radio 3 Award for Best European World Music Artist. Her collaboration with Sting (A Thousand Years written by Sting, featuring Mariza) was included in Unity, the official album of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. Mariza was named the “Hans Christian Andersen Ambassador” to Portugal by the Danish Ambassador to Portugal in the yearlong bicentennial birthday celebrations for Andersen in 2005. She was also nominated in that same year to the position of National Ambassador by the Portuguese Committee of UNICEF. In 2006 she received the prestigious Comenda da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique, an award granted by the President of the Portuguese Republic to recognize the contributions made by an individual to enhance the cultural awareness, history and value of Portugal around the world. The next year, Mariza received her first nomination for the Annual Latin GRAMMY Award for Best Folk Album for her album Concerto em Lisboa (2007). She was nominated a second time in the same category a year later, after the release of her album Terra (2008). Mariza is the only Portuguese artist to be nominated in this category. In addition to her prestigious music career, Mariza starred in Carlos Saura’s film Fados (2007), a drama set against Portuguese fado music culture. BBC also released a documentary in 2007 titled Mariza and the Story of Fado, which provided a compelling profile of both Mariza and the musical genre. This documentary was presented by the Chan Centre in partnership with The Cinematheque as part of the Chan Centre Connects series on October 17, 2013.
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In November 2011, fado was added to the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritages. “Intangible heritage” is defined by UNESCO as traditions and skills passed on within cultures. Mariza and Carlos do Carmo (another Portuguese fado singer) were both named the ambassadors of fado’s UNESCO candidacy. Mariza stated that if fado was honoured, “perhaps we Portuguese may take greater pride in who we are, especially in the so very grey times we currently live in. People shall have a far greater desire to care for, understand and nourish [fado] as they begin to understand that this is not some lesser culture, but rich and deep and able to be performed anywhere in the world”.
Pedro Jóia Guitarist Pedro Jóia began his classical guitar studies at age seven, and completed them at the Lisbon National Conservatory. He attended master classes in Spain with legendary guitarists Jerez de la Frontera, Paco Peña, and Gerardo Nuñez. He continued his studies with two other famed Spanish musicians, Manolo Sanlúcar and Sanlúcar de Barrameda. Pedro has worked frequently for the Portuguese theatre, composing and arranging original music for the stage. He has performed worldwide at concerts in Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Holland, India, Mozambique and the Ivory Coast, as well as a special presentation in Macau with the Chinese Orchestra that showcased Portuguese and Chinese compositions.
Vicky Marques Drummer Vicky Marquez draws his influences not only from his native Portugal but also from Northeast Africa, the Mediterranean, and Brazil. An accomplished percussionist with a worldwide profile, Marques has performed with a broad array of jazz, Latin, world and Brazilian musicians, including Ivan Lins, Yuri Daniel and Gregg Kofi Brown. He has also released a successful tutorial DVD Vicky - Elementos which was featured in Modern Drummer Magazine, and which spotlights his unique drum kit, which Vicky refers to as his “todo or terreno” or “four-wheel drive”. He gives frequent workshops for young percussionists looking for world/jazz versatility.
Theatre at UBC Presents
Pride and Prejudice by Jon Jory Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen
Directed by Lois Anderson November 14 to 30, 2013 Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC $7 Preview, Wed., Nov. 13
Illustration: Rocco Fazzari
Tickets: $10 | $15 | $22 (+ service charge) Box Office: 604.822.2678
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José Manuel Neto José Manuel Neto is widely considered one of the masters of the Portuguese guitar, and has performed with the greatest figures in fado, including Carlos do Carmo, Misia, Camané, Cristina Branco, Argentina Santos, Antonio Zambujo and Mariza. Neto is a self-taught musician who began his career in the fado houses of Lisbon at the age of 15. In addition to his unparalled career as accompanist to fado’s most acclaimed singers, he has released a number of solo CDs, including 2009’s O Som do Saudade. In 2008 he was awarded “Best Instrumentalist” by the Amália Rodrigues Foundation.
YAMI Born Fernando Araújo, bass player YAMI traces his musical roots from Portugal to Africa and back again. His father left his small town life in northern Portugal, boarded a ship bound for Angola, and soon found work on a coffee farm in Luanda. He married an African woman and had children. YAMI left Angola at age four when, following the Portuguese Colonial War, his father moved the family back to Portugal, settling in the suburbs of Lisbon. It was there that YAMI came to mix his magical and rhythmic memories of Angola with the deep, dramatic traditions of Portguese fado. YAMI has released a number of solo CDs in Portugal, connecting pan-African and LusoAmerican forms with Creole innovations, flavored with funk, reggae and rumba.
Photo by Jay Blakesberg
Christmas with the Bach Choir
Heartwarming classics to herald the festive season
DEC 01 2013 at 2pm I ORPHEUM THEATRE MUSIC DIRECTORS: LESLIE DALA AND MARISA GAETANNE FEATURING: All levels of the Vancouver Bach Choir Family I Touch of Brass
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Organist Ellen Ay-Laung Wang with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
School of Music Fanfares The fanfare performed in the lobby prior to this concert (6:30pm + 6:45pm) entitled Haiku, was commissioned by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts from UBC School of Music composition student Joseph Glaser. It is one of a number of newly commissioned fanfares that will be performed throughout the Chan Centre Presents concert season, as part of an ongoing partnership with the UBC School of Music. Haiku is an arrangement of Joseph Glaser’s piano work of the same name, and follows the form of a haiku with three phrases of five bars, seven bars and five bars respectively. For this version Glaser has added a contrasting middle section that takes inspiration from fado. Joseph Glaser composer Nick Hall trumpet Logan Bennett trumpet Holly Bryan horn Julia Broome-Robinson trombone Katie Tesarowski tuba
Antonió Zambujo
Márcio Faraco
Standout Portuguese fado artist. Tickets $35/$32
Brazilian singer/songwriter with pianist Philippe Baden Powell. Tickets $32/$29
February 2, 2014 @ 8 PM
March 8, 2014 @ 8 PM
Box Office: 604.990.7810 • Online: capilanou.ca/blueshorefinancialcentre/ Capilano University • 2055 Purcell Way • North Vancouver, BC.
Upcoming Events at the Chan Centre Full details at chancentre.com
OCTOBER 2013 Thurs Oct 31 at 8pm: Halloween Spectacular! UBC Symphony Orchestra Presented by the UBC School of Music, FREE
NOVEMBER 2013 Sun Nov 3 at 3pm: Benedetto Lupo, piano Presented by the Vancouver Recital Society as part of the Classic Afternoons series at the Chan Centre
Sat Nov 9 at 4pm: Last One Stands 2013: Vancouver’s Biggest Street Dance Battle Presented by Abe & Lockin’ Kuan Tue Nov 12 at 7:30pm: David Sedaris Presented by Innovation Arts Fri Nov 15 at 8pm: String Fest: UBC Chamber Strings Presented by UBC School of Music, FREE
Sun Nov 17 at 7pm: Rokia Traoré Presented by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Pre-show screening of the documentary film Living Memory: Six Sketches of Mali today at 5:30pm in the Royal Bank Cinema, free for Rokia Traoré ticket holders. Sat Nov 23 at 8pm: Impressions - UBC Bands Presented by the UBC School of Music, FREE
Sat Nov 30 at 8pm: Handel’s Messiah - University Singers, UBC Choral Union, UBC Symphony Orchestra Presented by the UBC School of Music
DECEMBER 2013 Sun Dec 1 at 2:30pm: SOLD OUT - Christmas at the Chan Presented by Trinity Western University in partnership with the Chan Centre
Fri Dec 6 at 8pm: Buika - Flamenco Soul Presented by Caravan World Rhythms and Julio Montero in partnership with the Chan Centre
Dec 20 + 21 at 8pm: The Four Seasons Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Sun Dec 22 at 3pm: The Bach Cantata Project: Festive Cantatas for Christmas Presented by Early Music Vancouver in partnership with the Chan Centre 9
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“...through the yearning sentiments of Portuguese fado music, Mariza glides into a dance step and fixes her gaze on some distant point, as if she were directing her poetic lamentations at the stars.� - The LA Times
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