Pima Community College Center for the Arts Proscenium Theater
Ballet Tucson Announces Its Winter Concert Viva Piazzolla!
As office of Tucson Desert Vocal Festival 2019 with special musical guests vocaliser Carlos Zapién and Bandini-Chiacchiaretta Duo from Italy for three performances February 1-3 at Pima Community College Center for the Arts (Proscenium Theatre).
Mauricio Vergara and Jenna Johnson in Viva Piazzolla!
Photograph past Ed Flores
Viva Piazzolla! portrays the emotionally charged life of legendary composer and nuevo tango godfather, Astor Piazzolla, through live music and dance. Chieko Imada and Mary Beth Cabana have created an original and exciting work in collaboration with Tucson Guitar Society and The Rogue Theatre. The choreography reflects the progression of Piazzolla's musical compositions, moving stylistically from classic to contemporary "nuevo tango" music. Visual drama, lush movement, engaging dialogue, and passionate alive music and song combine for a spectacular Wintertime Concert.
Ballet Tucson leads a stellar cast in this full-evening theatrical experience. Special guest artists include singer Carlos Zapién and Bandini-Chiacchiaretta Duo from Italy incorporating guitar and bandoneon into the product. The unique sound of the bandoneon is synonymous with Astor Piazzolla.
Daniel Precup performs the lead part of Astor Piazzolla. Prima Ballerina Jenna Johnson and leading dancers Megan Steffens and Shannon Quirk depict the key women in his life. The unabridged visitor joins together to present rousing and colorful choreography making Viva Piazzolla! a feast for the senses and an event not to be missed.
Nigh Bandini-Chiacchiaretta Duo:
Giampaolo Bandini-Cesare Chiacchiaretta Duo, guitar and bandoneon, formed in 2002 pursuing the clear aim to propose Argentine music through the charm and magic of its almost representative instruments. The duo immediately became an important point of reference in the international concert circuit thanks to their great communicativeness combined with extraordinary charisma. Invited by the most of import festivals and theatres in the world, they have toured in United mexican states, Romania, China, Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, French republic, Kingdom of belgium, Kingdom of the netherlands, Croatia, Russian federation, Slovenia, Turkey, the Czechia, and Hungary meeting outstanding critical and audition blessing.
Megan Steffens and Vasily Boldin in Viva Piazzolla!
Photo past Ed Flores
The duo had the privilege to play Astor Piazzolla'southward Double Concerto Hommage a Liegi conducted by Maestro Leo Brouwer at the Auditorium Paganini of Parma and for the Unione Musicale of Turin with the renowned Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra conducted past Pavel Berman. In 2004, they were awarded the 15th "Beniamino Joppolo" Città di Patti Prize (in the province of Messina, Italy) for remarkable creative achievements in the field of music. In 2005, the duo made their debut in the prestigious Grand Hall of Petrograd Academic Combo achieving such great success that they were immediately asked to play for the post-obit two years. Their peculiarity of living music to the full and without boundaries leads them to piece of work together with prominent artists such equally Arnoldo Foà, Elio delle Storie Tese, Amanda Sandrelli and musicians such as Fernando Suarez Paz, Michele Pertusi, Corrado Giuffredi, Danilo Rossi, Massimo Quarta, Enrico Bronzi, Franca Masu, Maria Estela Monti, Enrico Fagone and many others.
Their first CD Hombres de Tango sold more than x thousand copies and was greeted with neat enthusiasm by the critics. They have recorded for the most important radio and television broadcasters in Italian republic and away. Recently, a concert held in Brussels was broadcast via satellite in more than twenty countries. As teachers, they are requested past the most renowned academies and universities and hold classes at the institutes of college educational activity "Luigi Boccherini" in Lucca and "Tito Schipa" in Lecce as well equally at the Summer Festivals of Gubbio and Portogruaro.
Well-nigh Carlos Zapién:
Carlos Zapién was born in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. He began his studies at Conservatorio de Las Rosas in Morelia, Michoacán. He obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Oregon. Farther studies took Zapién to the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, where he earned the Soloist title under the tutelage of the
tenor Francisco Araiza and the soprano Dunja Vejzovic.
Megan Steffens, Caitlin Calligan & Taylor Carlson in Viva Piazzolla!
Photo by Ed Flores
He has concertized in his native Mexico, Austria, Federal republic of germany, Italy, Taiwan, and U.South. As a fellow member of the Oregon Opera Ensemble, he has participated in diverse operatic productions, including La Cambiale di Matrimonio (Rossini), The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart). In 2007, he made his European operatic debut as Count Belfiore in Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera with the Thuringian Philharmonic at the Ekhof Festival. Later he sang Schubert'sMass in B flat Major at the Gasteig in Munich with the Bach Collegium of Munich. In Pisa, he took on the part of Alfred in Die Fledermaus with the Jenaer Philharmonic. In 2009, Zapién performed a Rossini Gala with the Reutlingen Combo and appeared at the Schloss Solitude in Jommelli's opera Didone Abbandonata with the Stuttgart Philharmonic. He has collaborated with conductors such equally Hansjörg Albrecht, Glen Cortese, Miguel Harth- Bedoya, Frieder Bernius, Hermann Breuer, Jörg-Hannes Hahn, Jörg Halubek, Manfred Honeck and David Parry, to name only a few.
Mr. Zapién was named Artist in Residence at the Opera Studio of the Staatsoper Stuttgart in 2009, where he performed diverse roles from Il Trovatore to The Marriage of Figaro, and stayed in that firm until 2012, where he created the role of the son of Medea in Fremd past Hans Thomalla, collaborating with Maestro Johannes Kalitzke (Opernwelt 2012) and sung the challenging office of Niko in Gegen die Wand (Faust-Preis 2011). Recent performances in Europe include the Oratorio Jonas by Carissimi, Brescianello's La Tisbe, Bach's Magnificat and the tenor function in Orff's Carmina Burana.
In 2013, he was appointed Manager of Music of the Cathedral of Saint Augustine, in Tucson,
Arizona.
Operation DATES/TIMES
Friday, February 1 – seven:xxx pm
Sabbatum, February 2 – 2:00 pm
Sunday, February 3 – i:00 pm
Pima Community College – Middle for the Arts (Proscenium Theatre)
2202 W. Anklam Rd.
TICKETS
General $45
Seniors/Students/Military $40
Telephone: 800.838.3006
Online: world wide web.BalletTucson.com
Source: https://ballettucson.org/ballet-tucson-announces-its-winter-concert-viva-piazzolla/
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