Heliópolis Symphonic Orchestra and Sylvia Thereza, pianist and activist in favor of musical education, present the intensity of romantic composers
To close the 2021 Concert Season at the Ibirapuera Auditorium, OSH takes to the stage works by Rachmaninoff and Dvořák, great exponents of music in the Romantic Era.
São Paulo, November 16, 2021 – On December 5, at 5 pm, the Heliópolis Symphonic Orchestra receives pianist Sylvia Thereza at the Ibirapuera Auditorium to interpret great composers of classical music, under the direction of conductor Edilson Venturelli, for the last Concert for Season 2021. Still without ticket sales, the event will be broadcast live on YouTube.
Internationally recognized pianist and with extensive experience as a soloist and chamber musician, Sylvia reinforces her commitment to music and society through musical education and the training of disadvantaged children and young people: “I think that the greatest and most profound art needs be taken to everyone. And it’s not. So, to think that the cultural expression of these young people is limited to thinking that they don’t like classical music is not true. They just don’t know and don’t have access.”
In the repertoire of the concert that closes OSH’s classical presentations in 2021, two composers who marked the music of the Romantic Era: the Russian, Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Czech, Antonín Dvořák.
Considered one of the best – and most difficult to perform – works by Rachmaninoff, the public will be able to see all the grace, charm and rhythm of the play ‘Rapsódia sobre um Tema de Paganini’.
To close the night, the Orchestra also brings to the stage all the intensity, strength and versatility characteristic of Dvořák, showing with its ‘Symphony No. 9 – From the new world’ its own style, which managed to integrate the symphonic tradition with popular influences.
Throughout 2021, the Concert Season included a program of classical and popular music, alternating instrumental and popular repertoires, with the objective of increasingly democratizing culture, bringing the best of music to all audiences and musical styles.
Like all the Baccarelli Institute concerts, this one will also encourage the help forward to Tocando Juntos Por Heliópolis, remembering that people, especially slum dwellers, continue to struggle to survive the crisis aggravated by the pandemic.
Also because of the pandemic, since 2020 concerts have been broadcast live over the internet, through the YouTube channel of the Baccarelli Institute.
Thinking about the quality of the content and transmission through the screens, the Institute established partnerships with the best audio, lighting and video-transmission providers to carry out concerts with an excellent scenographic level and standing out in the market. This year, the stage occupied is the Ibirapuera Auditorium, located inside Ibirapuera Park, another important cultural corridor in the city to receive the Heliópolis Symphonic Orchestra.
The presentation will follow the sanitary safety protocol for prevention against Covid-19 developed by the Baccarelli Institute based on several premises defined in the cultural and musical milieu, protecting musicians and production staff.
Still without open box office, the event will give access to a select number of guests.
Sylvia Thereza
Winner of 12 piano competitions, including the Nelson Freire Competition held in Rio de Janeiro in 2004, Sylvia has been regularly invited to play in many Festivals and Orchestras, such as the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Brazilian Symphony and Kremlin Chamber Orchestra, Hannover Chamber Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, among others.
Sylvia has been performing since the age of six as a soloist, chamber musician and recitalist throughout Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, South Korea and Japan. Her way of experiencing art has taken her to important Concert Halls and Festivals around the world.
An enthusiastic chamberlain, he plays regularly with the legendary pianist Maria João Pires, with the Russian violinist Michael Taits, in a trio with Ning Kam (violin) and Judith Ermert (cello), and with the German cellist Judith Ermert.
As part of her social commitment and musical philosophy, Sylvia participated in a project in Rio de Janeiro introducing classical music to over 12,000 children from low-income families.
In Belgium, she is co-founder and artistic director of Associação Uaná-Association for the Arts, an institution that aims to bring together great names in the artistic world and valuable educators to produce art with the mission of collaborating with social projects, through music education projects, concerts, exhibitions and records.
Campaign “Playing Together for Heliópolis”
During the live, the public will be able to make donations to the Tocando Juntos por Heliópolis campaign, organized by the Baccarelli Institute with the aim of minimizing the effects of the pandemic on the community. With the support of companies that sponsor the project and individual donors, the campaign has already collected more than 770 tons of food and R$1.4 million for the families in the community. Donations can still be made through the page: https://www.institutobaccarelli.org.br/formas-de-ajudar
About Baccarelli Institute
The Baccarelli Institute is one of the most respected non-profit organizations in Brazil for providing excellent education combining three very important axes: cultural, educational and social. In addition, he formed the first orchestra in the world in a favela, breaking down several barriers. With artistic direction and conducting by one of the greatest conductors of our time, Isaac Karabtchevsky, the institution offers all activities free of charge and is based in the community of Heliópolis, where it has been working for 25 years as an agent of social transformation through art. More than giving access to musical education, the institute shows a future with more perspectives for those who, due to inequality, are placed on the margins of society. For more information, access: www.institutobaccarelli.org.br
- Estrada das Lagrimas, 2317 – Heliópolis – CEP: 04232-000 – São Paulo – SP
- contato@institutobaccarelli.org.br | Telephone: +55 11 3506-4646
- Online event: Season 2021 – Heliópolis Symphonic Orchestra
- Recording location: Ibirapuera Auditorium – Live broadcast
- Registration for access to the transmission: https://www.institutobaccarelli.org.br/inscricao-
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- Date: December 5, 2021 – Sunday
- Time: at 5pm
Sponsors and partners who support artistic-pedagogical activities through the Federal Law of Cultural Incentive:
- Master Sponsor: Unilever.
- Gold Sponsor: Instituto Votorantim, Instituto Cyrela and Movimento Bem Maior.
- Silver Sponsors: Banco Itaú, Banco BV, Velt Partners, Pró Vida and Pfizer.
- Bronze Sponsors: Banco Bradesco, BTG Pactual, Carrefour, Nadir Figueiredo, EDP Brasil, Astra and Urbia Parques.
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- Institutional Support: Mazars in Brazil, TukaSom, LPL Professional Lighting, Foggy
- Films, Fundamento Marketing, Unite Succession and Governance, Beato Live Marketing and ALMAPBBDO.
