The forthcoming season will welcome a lot of music. Besides Divino Sospiro, the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra (OCP) and OrchestrUtopica, the chamber ensemble Schostakovich-Ensemble will be in residence at the CCB. The Portuguese Symphonic Orchestra and the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra will here feature their regular season of concerts.
The baroque orchestra Divino Sospiro will be a regular and distinguished presence in this season, guaranteeing the opening concert with the ensemble L'Arpeggiata directed by Christina Pluhar. Besides the master classes and concerts with soloists such as Christophe Coin, Chiara Banchini and Alfredo Bernardini, Divino Sospiro will perform the oratory by Antonio Caldara Maddalena ai Piedi di Cristo, which constitutes the spinal column of the project From Bach to Kurtág, on the edge of transparency conceived by his director Massimo Mazzeo, a musical event which will associate three orchestras in residence: the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra and the OrchestrUtopica will team up with the baroque ensemble within a cycle of performances, from Thursday to Sunday.
For the first time, the Schostakovich-Ensemble will be the ensemble in residence in the forthcoming season. During this period, the ensemble directed by the pianist Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro will deepen its experience of collaboration with guest soloists concerned in participating on a chamber music project of variable geometry. Along the season, the clarinettist Pascal Moraguès, the cello player Christian Poltéra, the pianist Eldar Nebolsin, the oboist Ramon Ortega and the drummers Pedro Carneiro and Juanjo Guillem will meet the original formation (Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro, Tatiana Samouil and Pavel Gomziakov).
In January 2010, Maria João Pires returns to the Main Auditorium accompanied by the tenor Rufus Müller, performing a major work of the Lied repertoire: the cycle Winterreise by Franz Schubert. In February, the cycle dedicated to Robert Schumann (A voice coming by far) evokes the great German composer in his birth bicentenary through a set of piano recitals and chamber concerts, which will bring to the CCB the pianists Piotr Andersewski, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Roger Vignolles and João Paulo Santos, the baritone Florian Boesch and the violinist Bruno Monteiro, as well as the Schostakovich-Ensemble
Jazz is one of this season’s major bets. Therefore, the huge success granted by Doubles (premiered during the winter 2009) will carry on, as well as the summer programming (Jazz on Thursdays); the third edition of the LJSS – the CCB Lisbon Jazz Summer School will also be held. Along this season, Brad Mehldau, Jason Moran, Andrea Pozza, Scott Hamilton, Gilberto Gil and Bernardo Sassetti will be in the limelight, performing at the CCB Main Auditorium; a Carte Blanche will be given to Fausto Bordalo Dias within a stupendous Portuguese musical soiree.
CCB will maintain the festival cycles dedicated to major cities of literature: 2010 will launch Pontes para Istambul (Bridges for Istanbul), taking advantage of the fact that the city will be the European Capital of Culture. Cinema, photo, dance, traditional and contemporary music and literature will be the chosen fields to understand the ancient Byzantium. In April, the time will come again for a new edition of Music Days in Belém, this year dedicated to the Passions of the Soul, inspired on the definition shaped by Descartes. The Symphonic Metropolitan Orchestra will be the symphonic orchestra in residence of the Festival, while the OSP will perform one of the concerts.
The CCB Fábrica das Artes will carry on its activities, with a programming of performances, workshops and exhibitions for kids and grownups (and very grownups). This programming follows step by step the great moments of the season, such as the Schummann Cycle, the Music Days and the Istanbul Festival.
Throughout the season, besides the already customary celebration of the World Poetry Day (with the participation of the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra), two major Portuguese writers will be in the limelight: Agustina Bessa-Luís, in October, and Jorge de Sena, in November 2009.
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Season Associated Artist
Rui Horta
By accepting the CCB’S challenge to be the 2009/2010 season associated artist, I decided to create 3 works during this time period, works which are part of a whole, and the outcome of an intense reflection on my own path as a creator.
The three works - different in scale (small, medium, large) and in the themes are, however, unified by the questioning of the role of the body within the choreographic and theatrical speech.
Thus, the challenge was also to accept this forthcoming season as a moment in time for a creative reflection, a permanent lab where I will try to figure out some of the answers to the several questions disclosed by my own artistic path. I decided to create a trilogy. In the first work, Talk Show/until the body fades out, I question the body as a communicating system and raise the issue of its disappearance.
In the second work, The Tears of Saladin, I discuss the saturation of the body and the way of looking to other’s body, within the complex relational system which are nowadays our cities and the territories with no boundaries we inevitably share. Cultural body, political body, territory of simultaneousness, of power and negotiation, inevitably a space of social tension, but also a space for discovery and compassion. Local Geographic, the third work, is a reflection on identity and evidently discusses an intimate body, a personal geography using the body as a tool to discover the world.
These three works also represent a bigger challenge, as I decided - instead of what I usually do - to invest in the traditional/ritual theatre hall. In fact, in my latest works (Pixel, Set Up and Scope), the audience has always been involved in the sets, as a modifying agent, part of a space of erratic geometry, contaminator of the perception.
In this trilogy, I revisit the common relationship audience/performer, and I decided to invest in the three CCB performing halls and scales (the Small Auditorium - Eduardo Prado Coelho Room, the Main Auditorium and the Rehearsal Room), where the major challenge is to keep me loyal to the primacy of perception and questioning of the look, elemental themes of my creative speech.
Performances
TALK SHOW/ATÉ SE APAGAR O CORPO (UNTIL THE BODY FADES OUT)
15th, 16th, 17th and 18th October at the Small Auditorium – Eduardo Prado Coelho Room
AS LÁGRIMAS DE SALADINO (THE TEARS OF SALADIN)
5th and 6th March at the Main Auditorium
LOCAL GEOGRAPHIC
11th, 12th, 13th, 15th e 16th May at the Rehearsal Room
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Season Associated Company
Teatro Praga
The CCB’s invitation addressed to Teatro Praga to be the 2009/2010 Season Associated Company provides a way of scheduling and conceiving performances which really interests us: a performance in each of the three halls (each one of it with different dimensions and characteristics).
We will pursue, in different ways and dimensions, the path towards a new Ethics (which will not be far from the ethics of truth and will not be near from the universal ethics), proposing a change in the paradigm - exploring good and evil, revolution and conservation - on the way to a different art.
The ambition is futuristic, thus we need catastrophes (Padam Padam), battles (Oil ain’t all, J.R.) and a performance bigger than Power (Midsummer Night’s Dream).
To catch a glimpse of the light in the darkness of time, to be on time in a meeting we can only miss, to be framed by an affirmative and ideological thought: this is what we want to try. In three stages that do not depend nor follow on each other. This is not a trilogy (R.I.P.), yet three performances tied by the absence of an objective or absolute relationship.
Long live the impossibility. Send for the spaceship.
Performances
PADAM PADAM (WITHIN THE EUROPEAN PROJECT PROSPERO)
30th September to 5th October at the Small Auditorium – Eduardo Prado Coelho Room
OIL AIN'T ALL, J.R.
23rd to 30th March at the Rehearsal Room
SONHO DE UMA NOITE DE VERÃO (MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM)
July at the Main Auditorium (dates to be announced)