Com grande alegria vou estar de volta no meu primeiro conservatório de música: FAMES – Faculdade de Música do Espírito Santo, conversando sobre o repertório de música contemporânea para piano que venho explorando nos últimos anos, exemplificando ao piano e também com videos de concertos passados.
No Auditório Alceu Camargo, às 14h45, e o evento é grátis!
Endereço: Praça Américo Poli Monjardim, 60, Centro, 29010-640, Vitória, ES.
Agradecimentos especiais: Cláudio Thompson
* London – 19 Sept * Oxford – 20 Sept * Cardiff – 02 Oct * London – 05 Oct *
In this series of concerts, I am very delighted to present a programme pairing music by masters of the 20th century (Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Arnold Schoenberg) with talents of the 21st century based in the UK (Michael Taplin, Yfat Soul Zisso, James Albany Hoyle, Nathan Dearden, Maja Palser and Omar Peracha) and linking those worlds with the distinctive music of Kaija Saariaho and Jocy de Oliveira.
I have been curating this programme in collaboration with composers Michael Taplin and Yfat Soul Zisso, and we have been specially caring to shed a light on unfairly underperformed female composers such as Ruth Crawford-Seeger and Jocy de Oliveira. And, supporting the work of such talented emerging composers, I am very happy to have the honour to premiere the works that Michael Taplin, Yfat Soul Zisso and James Hoyle have written especially for me in this series.
The title of the recital borrows from Michael’s piece, and communicates the essence of the works of this repertoire – little brief sparkles, ethereal, very delicate, volatile, yet exquisite and vital.
We are very grateful to the RVW Trust and Hinrichsen Foundation for the support to this series. Also very special thanks to Prof. Eric Clarke (Wadham College, Oxford) and Bruno Guastalla.
Details of dates are below. I hope to see you in one or more of these dates!
Candles – piano music by 20th and 21st century composers
Wednesday 19 September, 1:05pm: St. Dunstan-in-the West Church, 186a Fleet Street, London EC4A 2HR (Free)
Thursday 20 September, 7:30pm: Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford OX1 3SB (£8 on the door)
Tuesday 02 October, 7pm: Cardiff University Concert Hall, 31 Corbett Road, Cardiff, CF10 3EB (£5/ free for students & under 18)
Friday 05 October, 1:05pm: St. John’s Waterloo, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8TY (Free)
Photo: Stu Allsopp
Poster: Bruno Guastalla
I couldn’t be happier in my first time in Canadá, by culminating it with my Toronto debut!
For some years I have been enjoying immensely to play works by Canadian composers, including Linda Catlin-Smith and Nick Storring. Then, it is very special for me to have the opportunity now to play those works in Canadá itself! I will be also playing piano and toy piano evocative works by Marisa Rezende (Brazil), Yfat Soul Zisso (Israel/UK), Maria Kaoutzani (Cyprus/USA), and more.
This concert is promoted by Riparian Acoustics in partnership with Arraymusic, and this is how they describe the event:
Késia Decoté – piano
with
Dog Days of Summer (Allison Cameron and Kurt Newman)
Friday August 10th, 2018
Doors 8PM – Music at 8:30PM
Arraymusic Space — 155 Walnut Ave., Toronto
$10 at the door
UK-based pianist Késia Decoté has been making waves overseas as an skilled interpreter and improviser. She gravitates toward patient, introspective repertoire and colourful sonic exploration in equal measure making her an exciting and versatile soloist. Join us for her Toronto debut as she performs a mix of English, Canadian and Brazilian repertoire featuring work by Nick Storring, Linda Catlin Smith and Marisa Rezende.
Allison Cameron and Kurt Newman are two of Toronto’s most intriguing and unique voices in improvisation. Each working within in their own form of befuddling virtuosity and peculiar abstraction, as a pair they promise to immersive perplexity of the highest order.
I will be joined by dear friends dancer and choreographer Joëlle Pappas and musician and composer Bruno Guastalla in a dance and music evening at beautiful The Abbey Sutton Courtenay.
We will be performing our newly devised trio – Loci, Joëlle and Bruno will be performing their beautiful duo Traits, and I will be performing my beloved myths & visions (this may be the last performance of myths & visions in the UK, a project that is so special to me!).
This will also be my last performance as an Oxford resident, as I am moving out now with the end of my PhD. It feels so special, the end of an era, a incredible time in my life.
Come, if you can, to celebrate with us, also to support the Refugee week – donations will go towards charities which give assistance to refugees in Oxfordshire.
7pm
The Abbey Sutton Courtenay
The Abbey Sutton Courtenay
The Green
Sutton Courtenay
OX14 4AF
Suggested donation: £15
Programme
LOCI
‘Tout organisme est une mélodie qui se chante elle-même.’ (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Working together on this piece, the ‘places’ of the title are not set positions: we inhabit the same space for a while, a space which is resonant and elastic.
Dancer and Choreographer: Joëlle Pappas
Piano: Késia Decoté, Cello/Bandoneon: Bruno Guastalla
…
Traits
Dancer and Choreographer: Joëlle Pappas
Music and Soundscape: Bruno Guastalla
Dramaturgy adviser: Miranda Laurence
Traits explores the attitudes and behaviour of a complex character fervently looking for a sense of coherent identity. It draws inspiration from puppetry traditions from around the world. This piece was commissioned by Dancin’Oxford and the Pegasus Theatre for Moving With The Times, 2018.
…
Myths and Visions
Part I
Henry Cowell – The voice of Lir, for piano [tone clusters] (1920)
Aeolian Harp, for piano strings (1923)
The Banshee, for piano strings (1925)
John Cage – Bacchanale, for prepared piano (1940)
Part II
Sara Carvalho – inside silence, for prepared piano and toy piano (2012)
Marisa Rezende – Miragem [Mirage], for piano and mallets (2009)
John Cage – A flower, for voice and closed piano (1950)
Performer: Késia Decoté
Movement director: Joëlle Pappas
Myths and Visions was originally conceived as part of Késia Decoté’s doctoral research at Oxford Brookes University. It combines piano performance with dance, offering an alternate experience of a classical music recital.
‘Késia Decoté takes bold risks both with her choice of repertoire and by challenging the conventions of piano performance, and she emerges triumphant.’
– Colin May, music writer (Nightshift, Oxford Times)
Making the most of my visit to Orkney, I will be joining an epic performance of Satie’s Vexations, organised by my dear friend Gemma McGregor.
The performance will be at the second floor of Pier Arts Centre in Stromness, starting at 10:30am and lasting all day long. Audience is welcome to come and go as they wish.
Can’t be more thrilled to be part of this!
work by Barbara Hepworth at Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney.
One of those times that music brings friendship, and friendship brings more music…
I met Gemma through the Illuminate Women’s Music Project, when we played piano and flute pieces by historical women composers, and I played two of Gemma’s pieces as well.
A dear friendship came so instantly, enveloped by a lovely musical affinity, that we decided to enjoy it more, so I will travelling up north to play a piano and flute recital with her on the 14th June in Orkney!
We will be playing pieces by Lili Boulanger, Louise Marie Simon, Edmundo Villani-Côrtes, Julius Eastman, Marisa Rezende, Sarah Westwood, Carol J. Jones and Gemma McGregor herself.
It will be at 7:30pm, at Stromness Town Hall, tickets to be purchased on the door.
An evening of dance and music where I will be joined by dancer and choreographer Joëlle Pappas, musician and composer Bruno Guastalla and composer Sarah Westwood to bring you pieces inspired by puppetry, myths, visions, and cable cars.
I am so happy to open the evening a new trio piece especially devised for this show, with dear Joëlle and Bruno. I will also be performing my myths & visions (this can be your last chance to see this beloved beloved solo piano + dance show in central Oxford. Do come!)
More details of the programme are below, including Joëlle and Bruno’s beautiful duo, and Sarah’s enchanting solo.
This show is promoted by CARU | Contemporary Arts ReSearch Unit and OCM, with support by SARU.
7pm (doors, 7:30 performance)
The Warehouse
14A Osney Lane
Oxford
OX1 1NJ
Tickets £10 at Eventbrite
‘Tout organisme est une mélodie qui se chante elle-même.’ (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Working together on this piece, the ‘places’ of the title are not set positions: we inhabit the same space for a while, a space which is resonant and elastic.
Piano: Késia Decoté
Dancer and Choreographer: Joëlle Pappas
Music and Soundscape: Bruno Guastalla
…
piano + electronics
Composer and performer: Sarah Westwood
Cable Veins was conceived after two moments: 1) watching a dancer/non-pianist playing across a piano before one of our rehearsals at Centre national de la danse, and 2) whilst taking a cable car ride. What struck me in both instances was the amount of movement seen verses the sounds heard; both the dancer and the whirring cogs of the machine making sound yet producing a more intricate movement. This was a quality I wanted to investigate, to create a ‘pianistic cog’ gesture, which in turn would create the sound. All in a meditative state.
…
Dancer and Choreographer: Joëlle Pappas
Music and Soundscape: Bruno Guastalla
Dramaturgy adviser: Miranda Laurence
Traits explores the attitudes and behaviour of a complex character fervently looking for a sense of coherent identity. It draws inspiration from puppetry traditions from around the world. This piece was commissioned by Dancin’Oxford and the Pegasus Theatre for Moving With The Times, 2018.
…
Part I: Myths
Henry Cowell – The voice of Lir, for piano [tone clusters] (1920)
Aeolian Harp, for piano strings (1923)
The Banshee, for piano strings (1925)
John Cage – Bacchanale, for prepared piano (1940)
Part II: Visions
Sara Carvalho – inside silence, for prepared piano and toy piano (2012)
Marisa Rezende – Miragem [Mirage], for piano and mallets (2009)
John Cage – A flower, for voice and closed piano (1950)
Performer: Késia Decoté
Movement director: Joëlle Pappas
Myths and Visions was originally conceived as part of Késia Decoté’s doctoral research at Oxford Brookes University. It combines piano performance with dance, offering an alternate experience of a classical music recital.
‘Késia Decoté takes bold risks both with her choice of repertoire and by challenging the conventions of piano performance, and she emerges triumphant.’
– Colin May, music writer (Nightshift, Oxford Times)
