9th Barcelona Festival of Song®
Summer Program & Concert Series of
Latin-American & Spanish Vocal Repertoire
June 27 - July 6, 2013
Links through songs
27th November, 2012
11:10am São Paulo
12:10pm Salvador da Bahia
03:10pm Barcelona
Thanks to their ability to transmit feelings and situations and their versatility, songs have always had a unifying power.
The show Links through songs will link the cities of Barcelona, São Paulo and Salvador da Bahia by means of words and sound, through the experimental research facility being developed by the European project FIBRE.
With this idea from the Cultural Ring, the singers Patricia Caicedo and Josani Pimenta, accompanied by the pianists Ivana Krusedolac and Ricardo Ballestero, will build sound bridges between the two continents.
FIBRE is a joint project between the European and Brazilian governments, the main goal of which is the design, implementation and validation of a shared Future Internet research facility supporting the joint experimentation of European and Brazilian researchers.
Within the framework of the first FIBRE Open Workshop to assess the implementation process of this significant investment, a project by the Cultural Ring will inaugurate the shared infrastructure between the European Union and Brazil: the interactive show Links through songs, a concert that will bring together in real time musicians and singers from Barcelona, São Paulo and Salvador da Bahia:
Patricia Caicedo, soprano
Ivana Krusedolac, piano
Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC), Barcelona
Josani Pimenta, mezzo-soprano
Ricardo Ballestero, piano
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
1st FIBRE Open Workshop
Bahia Othon Palace Hotel
Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Further information:
http://cultura.gencat.cat/promociocultural
http://www.fibre-ict.eu/
http://www.patriciacaicedo.com
As I'm writing this entry to the festival's blog I feel very happy because our mission was more than accomplished. We had 10 very intense days of hard work and music sharing here in Barcelona and we had the amazing opportunity to share experiences and music with students and teachers in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
I'm writing a few days after our festival finished and as a organizer and teacher I can only tell all participants how important was for me to meet them and to have the opportunity to expend time with them and to exchange thoughts and music. I feel really privileged for having had that opportunity to work with very talented singers from very different corners of the world. This year the festival had students coming from Sweden, Russia, Philippines, Greece, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Canada, USA, Colombia and Brazil.
I learned lots of things during these past days. Thank you all for your open mind, for your tolerance, for your energy and disposition to work hard during the few days we were together.
I'm very, very happy of having you in my life now as I'm sure we will continue collaborating and communicating. You can count with me here in Barcelona! Please let me know about your performances in which you sing the repertoire we have been studying. I will always publish them in the BFOS site and help with its promotion.
One part of me is a little sad because the time together ended.... but, this is life...we have to continue with our lives and projects but now with new friends to share with our common love for music and singing.
Please, upload the pictures you have to the BFOS Facebook site. This is a group that is open, meaning that all members can post pictures and videos, so, please share the pictures you have with the rest of the group. We will treasure those images near to our hearts.
But remember, no time to be sad in times of Internet2! now we can keep in touch, for the time being using regular Internet trough Skype, email, FB, etc. Please keep in touch.
Here I'm giving access to the pictures of the Master Classes done between Barcelona and São Paulo using the Internet2.
Pictures taken from Sao Paulo:
Pictures taken from Barcelona:
Today we had a day entirely dedicated to the study of the Brazilian Art Song. The day started with a lecture about Brazilian history and composers and continue with a session of Brazilian Portuguese diction for singers. After that first approach we had 2 sessions of Master Class of 2 hours each dedicated to the learn to perform Brazilian Art Song. We had great fun and enjoyed working with Dr. Pinheiro.
Tonight June 28th the 8th Barcelona Festival of Song starts and we are excited. Everything in place, musicians arriving from different parts of the world are sleeping their first night before starting 10 days of hard work and excitement. WELCOME to all the participants to our edition!
We are excited because in 60 days the 8th Barcelona Festival of Song is starting! If you are a singer and is interested in participating, there are only 2 more weeks left to register, so, hurry up!! Don't miss this once in a life opportunity to discover the amazing world of Latin-American and Spanish Vocal Music!
Please visit our website and learn about the Registration process.
The BFOS in Brazil
We have great news!
From 2012 the Barcelona Festival of Song its extending is presence to Brazil. This means that students located in São Paulo, Brazil will be able to actively participate in 3 sessions of master class as well as in one concert.
This initiative is done for first time ever and is possible thanks to the Internet2 technology and to the collaboration of important institutions in Brazil and in Spain.
Internet2 is a member-owned advanced technology community founded by international institutions who are leaders in the worlds of research, academia, industry and government, the Internet2 community is developing breakthrough technologies that support the most exacting applications of today—and spark the most essential innovations of tomorrow.
The Barcelona Festival of Song´s partners that makes this possible are the Anella Cultural and the Centro Cultural Sao Paulo.
The Anella Cultural
A Catalan project lied by the Generalitat de Catalunya who's goal is to establish ways of cultural exchange and to contribute to innovation in education. Another important partner that contributes to this initiative in Barcelona is the Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya, ESMUC.
CCSP
Celebrating 30 years of existence in 2012 the Centro Cultural São Paulo is one of the leading institutions in Brazil in the use of technology applied to education and arts promotion. The CCSP is one of the most important cultural centers in Latin-America and is part of the Anella Cultural Europa - Latinamerica, a group of institutions from five different countries in Latin-America and Spain who are commited to dinamized cultural education and promotion trough the use of new technologies.
Initially planned to shelter an extension of the Biblioteca Mário de Andrade [Mario de Andrade Library], the Centro Cultural São Paulo (CCSP) has passed, during its building phase, by a series of adaptations to be transformed in one of the first multidisciplinary cultural spaces in Brazil.
The Barcelona Festival of Song
Arriving to its 8ª edition the Barcelona Festival of Song is positioned as the most important space promoting the Latin-American and Spanish Vocal repertoire. Created in 2005 for the purpose of promoting the Latin American & Spanish Vocal Repertoire,the centerpiece of the Barcelona Festival of Song® is a Summer Course for singers, pianists & musicologists focused on the History & Interpretation of the Latin American & Spanish Vocal Repertoire in Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese & Catalan; however, the Festival also presents public concerts with well known singers, pianists and guitarists and the participants in the course.
The Barcelona- São Paulo project project
The Barcelona Festival of Song´s partners that make this possible are the Anella Cultural, a Catalan project lied by the Generalitat de Catalunya whos goal is to establish ways of cultural exchange and to contribute to innovation in education, the Centro Cultural São Paulo and the Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya, ESMUC.
Thanks to the infrastructure offered by the Anella Cultural, we will be able to reach students in Brazil and for the first time we will have sessions in which students and faculty are simultaneously working in real time in Barcelona and São Paulo. We will be exchanging knowledge and making music at the same time in both countries. This is a pioneer project of innovation starting in 2012.
Master Classes of Art Song in Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese
The Master class sessions that will be broadcast using the Internet2 technology will take place during July 4, 5 and 6, 2012.
On July the 4th and 5th the classes will take place from 16hs to 19hs, Barcelona, time. In this classes there will be conectivity between the CCSP and the ESMUC and previously register singers will have the opportunity to participate in the classes. They have to prepare 2 songs and will have the opportunity to work with teachers located in both cities.
On july 6th there will be a concert, broadcast in real time in Barcelona and Brazil where the students who participated in the master classes will perform to an international audience.
During these 3 days singers will have the opportunity to perfect their interpretation and diction of the vocal repertorires in español, catalan and portugués.
Teachers
In São Paulo teachers are soprano Dr. Martha Herr. She is on the faculty of the UNESP (Universidad Estatal Paulista).
The piano accompanist will be Marizilda Hein, teacher at the Escola Municipal de Música,.
In Barcelona teachers will be soprano and musicologist Patricia Caicedo, tenor Adriano Pinheiro, pianist Donna Loewy and guitarist José Lezcano
Dates and Times
In Brazil
July 4th and 5th, 2012, from 10h til 13hs.
July 6th, from 13h to 15th
Em Barcelona
July 4th and 5th, 2012, from 15h until 18h;
July 6th, from 20hs to 22hs
Place
In Brazil
Centro Cultural São Paulo
Rua Vergueiro, 1000 - Liberdade
In Barcelona
Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya
C/Padilla, 155 (Edifici L’Auditori), 08013, Barcelona
How to participate?
In Brazil there are places for 10 active participants and 10 auditors
Registration
If you are a voice student located in São Paulo and would like to participate in the Barcelona Festival of Song 2012 please go to http://www.centrocultural.sp.gov.br/programacao_cursoseoficinas.asp#bfos
In Barcelona you can
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We are excited since our 8th festival will start soon! in only 68 days from now students, teachers and guest artists coming from different parts of the world will be in Barcelona to share their love for Latin-American and Spanish Vocal Music.
This year we will have a great faculty on board form by teachers coming from Spain, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and the US. Students are coming from the US and Canada.
If you are a classical singer with passion for new music and exciting repertoire, you are still on time to get on board for the 2012 festival! please check or site and register as soon as you can. We will be happy to have you here.
Barcelona Festival of Song director Patricia Caicedo together with pianist Asuka Kubota are presenting a recital at the Iberian and Latin-American Music Society of London. The concert will take place on Wed 21 March 2012, 1.10pm at St James's Church, 197, Piccadilly, London, W1J 9LL, United Kingdom http://www.ilams.org.uk/concerts.htm
"Adored by the cognoscenti, soprano Patricia Caicedo has begun an unstoppable career that has taken her to the most prestigious halls in Europe and the US with her beautiful Latin American art songs." Radio Nacional Española
Described as 'the voice of Latin American and Spanish art song' and often cited as its ambassador, Colombian-Spanish soprano and musicologist Patricia Caicedo has established herself as a leading interpreter of the Latin American and Spanish vocal repertory. Singing in Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Quechua and Nahuatl, she draws listeners into the world of beauty, poetry, and warmth that is the Latin American and Spanish Art Song. Join Patricia Caicedo in the Baroque splendour of St James's Piccadilly for an exciting musical tour of Latin America, as she takes you through the art songs of Spain, Argentina, Peru, Brasil and her native Colombia.
Patricia Caicedo soprano | Asuka Kubota piano
We are very happy because our former students are presenting concerts dedicated to the Latin-American and Spanish Vocal repertoire around the world. For us this is a way to measure the success of our program and the impact we are having in the promotion and preservation of the repertoire for future generations.
So, here is the information of the concerts....perhaps you will be able to enjoy them if you happen to be in Belgrade, Paris or Florida!
March 15th, 2012 – 19.30hs
Melody Cooper, soprano & José Manuel Lezcano, guitar
Spanish Rhapsody 2
Unity of the Keys, Key West, Florida, USA - 19hs
May 13th, 2012 – 19hs
Melodia Sentimental: Latin-American and Spanish Songs
Emmanuelle Dijon soprano, Antoine De Grolée, piano
Studio Le Regard du Cygne, 210
Rue de Belleville, 75020 PARIS
31 May, 2012 - 19hs
Patricia Sands, soprano
Belgrade Philharmonic Hall
Belgrade, Serbia
Musicologist and soprano Patricia Caicedo, came to the world for one mission and that mission is to create awareness of the beauty of preserving AND performing a variety of outstanding Latin American and Spanish art song repertoire. She is the founder of Barcelona Festival of Song 2012, which has been a vehicle to achieve such an important task for the past seven years. Being part of the 8th edition of the Barcelona Festival of Song will allow participants to be responsible for this repertoire in their home countries.
Hear some of the past participants comments from previous years. The Barcelona Festival of Song team had the pleasure of meeting and having students from a variety of prestigious institutions including Boston Conservatory, the Julliard School of Music, the University of Texas at Austin, Eastman University and Yale University, amongst others.
“Patricia Caicedo is truly and inspiring force of nature”, shares Melody Cooper, a former participant.
“One of the highlights was the opportunity to perform with guitarist and composer José Lezcano. He is an amazing composer and a gifted accompanist, it was a joy to sing with him”.
“ I was not expecting such a thorough scholarly presentation on the subject”
“It is important to know that such resources and repertoire exist…it´s all about the music. I fell in love with Spanish vocal repertoire”
Why waste an opportunity to experience working close to world-class singers, teachers and coaches? This opportunity offers a new vision and alley for singers that are looking for originality and prestige to continue on their careers.
Starting from the benefits of the Alexander technique, the flawless diction knowledge, to the understanding of each piece of work, the Barcelona Festival of Song is truly an integrated and complete program. Serving as a “personal concierge” for participants as the staff assists from the accommodation and other petitions, learning about the in´s and out´s of the city, to the night of the performances in breathtaking venues where participants own the night!
“I went to the Barcelona Festival of Song to further my knowledge of Spanish art song and was introduced to a whole new world”…
As the last comment says, it is all about expanding one´s own horizons.
A new article about the Latin-American Art Song repertoire was published in the January-February 2012 issue of VoicePrints, the Journal of the New York Singing Teacher´s Association. The article written by Barcelona Festival of Song´s director, Dr. Patricia Caicedo gives an overview of the history and development of the Latin-American Art Song.
If you wish to read the article please click here
In the January 2012 issue of the Classical Singer Magazine there was a very nice article about the Barcelona Festival of Song. Here there are a few paragraphs that you will be able to read entirely if you visit the following link CLASSICAL SINGER issue.
“Patricia Caicedo is truly and inspiring force of nature”, shares Melody Cooper, a former participant.
“One of the highlights was the opportunity to perform with guitarist and composer José Lezcano. He is an amazing composer and a gifted accompanist, it was a joy to sing with him”.
“ I was not expecting such a thorough scholarly presentation on the subject”
“It is important to know that such resources and repertoire exist…it´s all about the music. I fell in love with Spanish vocal repertoire”
Why waste an opportunity to experience working close to world-class singers, teachers and coaches? This opportunity offers a new vision and alley for singers that are looking for originality and prestige to continue on their careers.
Starting from the benefits of the Alexander technique, the flawless diction knowledge, to the understanding of each piece of work, the Barcelona Festival of Song is truly an integrated and complete program. Serving as a “personal concierge” for participants as the staff assists from the accommodation and other petitions, learning about the in´s and out´s of the city, to the night of the performances in breathtaking venues where participants own the night!
“I went to the Barcelona Festival of Song to further my knowledge of Spanish art song and was introduced to a whole new world”…
As the last comment says, it is all about expanding one´s own horizons.
We are debuting our new website and we invite all our fans and past participants to write and share their experiences at the Barcelona Festival of Song!
