Pedro Caldeira Cabral
Pedro Caldeira Cabral ( born 1950 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese guitarist, virtuoso of the Portuguese guitar, composer and director of various music festivals.
- 2.1 research
- 2.2 Festival line compositions
Life
Training
As a child he learned Portuguese guitar, classical guitar and Baroque flute. Later, he 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 instruments and early music.
Artistic Career
He founded and directed the ensemble La Batalla and Concerto Atlântico, who specialized in the performance of medieval and Renaissance music on period instruments.
Pedro Caldeira Cabral as a composer developed his very own style on the basis of 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 the Guitarra Portuguesa he expanded their solo repertoire with transcriptions of works by JS Bach, SL Weiss, D. Scarlatti, Seixas, S. de Murcia, R. de Visée and many others. Just as he played premieres of contemporary composers.
Work
Research
He conducted research in the field of organology traditional instruments and worked with Dr. Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira together the second and third edition 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 classification of the collection organological Michel Giacometti at the Music Museum of Cascais. His book The Portuguese guitar, published in 1999 Ediclube in Lisbon, is the first monograph to the development of the instrument and its historical development, including iconography, organology and repertoire.
Festival line compositions
Cabral has composed original music for theater, movies, television series and ballet and was a virtuoso of the Portuguese guitar intensively toured in Europe, Asia and the United States of America. He was responsible for the artistic director of the International Festival of Guitarra Portuguesa on the World Expo 98, which was held in Lisbon. Between 2001 and 2009 he was the director of the medieval music festivals in Carrazeda de Ansiães, Portugal. Since 2006 he is a producer and manager of the festival summer the Musa in Vila Flor, Portugal. In 2007, he was and initiator of the 1st International Symposium on Portuguese guitar in Coimbra, in cooperation with the Orquestra do Centro Classico and the University of Coimbra.
Public interest
He has appeared in television productions at RTP in Portugal, WDR, ZDF and NDR in Germany, in the BBC and Granada TV in the UK, in ORTF in France, at VPRO in the Netherlands as well as TV Globo and TV Cultura de São Paulo in Brazil.
Media
A selection of his solo recordings includes: 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), Guitarra Portuguesa Memórias because, Tradisom (2003) and Guitarra Diversa, Mastermix ( 2004).