Brazilian born composer and performer based in Berlin, Ivan holds a B. M. in music composition and a M. A. in music analysis from the São Paulo State University. A former artist-in-residence at the Casa das Caldeiras, he was a Spanish Ministry of Culture fellowship student at the CNDM (Madrid), and an awarded composer at the Música Nova festival (Brazil), and his work has been performed in Brazil, Germany, France, Switzerland, Colombia, Argentina, and Korea. He’s also part of the invisibili(cidades) and NME experimental music collectives. More information at www.ivanchiarelli.com
Using both pre-recorded and live music, video, in- and off-scene action, Neuköllner Oper raises interesting questions about the intersection of arts and politics in this setting of Tosca.
In a program conceived by composer and conductor John Adams, Sibelius’ Lemminkäinen Suite, Adams’ own Absolute Jest and Beethoven’s Symphony no. 7 sounded in sympathetic resonance with Charles Ives’ Three Places in New England.
Iván Fischer, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra brought a high level of intimacy with, and understanding of, the repertoire performed in the evening’s programme in São Paulo.
Directed by guest conductor Tito Muñoz, the São Paulo State Orchestra (OSESP) performed a programme centered around the different conceptions of contrast, with music by Takemitsu, Beethoven and Nielsen.
