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18th March 17:00
Amsterdam
18th march 20:30
Amsterdam
19th march 16:00
Horst
Ana Roque is a Portuguese singer. Although she started to sing at a very young age, it was during her university time that she discovered her call for Fado. Despite her young career Ana looks back on an impressive list of collaborations of both the theatre and music “landscape” of Portugal. Her reputation brought her into the most famous “Casas de Fado” of the country such as Marquês da Sé, Luso and Clube de Fado. In constant search for her musical identity with roots in Fado, Ana took part in several musical projects such as Fado Inverso. In December 2015 Ana finalized her debut album “Olhares” (meaning “Glances”). The Album shows a selection of original compositions with a beautiful variety of Fados and Portuguese songs. In April 2016 Ana will present her debut album in Portugal and have her international release in the Netherlands on the 30th of April in the concert series Quintessences Invites! in Teatro Munganga.
http://www.anaroque.net
Rafael Fraga was born in Lisbon and lived in the Azores (Portugal) most of his childhood. He started playing the guitar at the age of 13 and after concluding a BA in Biology he dedicated himself entirely to music and writing.
He studied jazz guitar for a short period and then pursued studies in classical composition, completing a BA at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa in 2008 and a MA at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2010. His main musical influences are Bossanova, Portuguese folk music, Jazz and classical-contemporary music.
His work as composer and arranger reflects a need to blend these diverse musical contexts and perspectives in a balanced way.
He has worked as a guitarist, composer and orchestrator in many projects. Some of his most relevant collaborations include leading fado singers such as Carlos do Carmo and Ana Moura, poet Nuno Júdice, pianist João Paulo Esteves da Silva or the editor Nelson de Matos (Portugal), the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Quatro Ventos, Daisy Correia (Netherlands), along with many other artists and ensembles. Besides music, he writes prose and poetry, with sparse publications. He has released and participated in several music albums and edited two songbooks, with Augusto Macedo as co-author.
Rafael is currently based in Amsterdam.
www.rafaelfraga.com
Rodrigo Freitas de Oliveira Cordeiro, born in Vila Nova da Barca, in the district of Coimbra, Portugal, began his musical studies at the age of 7.
He has attended Escola Profissional de Música de Espinho (Espinho Professional Music School) under the orientation of Nuno Aroso, Pedro Oliveira, Paulo Oliveira, Joaquim Alves, Rui Rodrigues, in 2009 he was admitted at ESMAE (Superior School of Music and Performing Arts) in Music (percussion) and 2016 was admitted at ESMAE in a Master program and in the second year he attended erasmus in CODARTS (University of the arts) in the World Music Department.
Also, he has worked with Robert Van Sice, Pedro Carneiro, Jeffery Davis, Michael Lauren, Ian Rosenbaum, Sisco Aparici, Bogdan Bacano, Nicholas Perazza, Andrés Tarabia, Rui Gomes, Rainers Seegers, Vina Lacerda, Kunihiko Komori, Tatiana Koleva, Katarzyna Micka, Bart Quartier, Mark Ford.
He obtained the 3rd place in the 4th edition of the Tum-pa-Tum-pa Competition and honorable mention is ESMAE.
As a musician, he worked in different styles and formations including solo, Ensembles, Orquestra Clássica de Espinho, Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa, Orquestra do Algarve, Sinfonieta do Porto, Ensemble contemporâneo da ESMAE, Big Band de jazz da EPME, Orquestra de Sopros e Orquestra de Cordas da ESMAE, Fanfarra Kaustica, Orquestra de Sopros de Coimbra, performing in several countries like Japan, Spain, France, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, USA, China and Belgium, where he won the 1nd place in a competition held in Neerpelt.
He works as the head timpanist of Fundação Orquestra Estúdio, Guimarães European capital of culture in 2012 and as a backup musician for Gulbenkian Orchestra.
Also, he worked with the conductors Jan Cober, Bernhard Klee, Pedro Neves, Cesário Costa, Michael Zilm, Douglas Bostock, Manuel Vilaplana, Harry Lyth, António Saiote, Luís Cardoso, Jorge Salgueiro, Luís Carvalho, Dàrio Sotelo, amongst others.
It has been doing formation in African Ethnic Music, including Guinea, Burkina Faso and Senegal, with Aly N'Diaye Rose, Babara Bangoura, Bayo Kankan, Issiaka Dembele, Camara Abdolaye among others.
Cuban Music (Latin) with Lucas van Merwijk, Martin Verdonk, Eliel Lazo, Anna Elis de Jong and Abel Calderón.
Recently is studying Flamenco Music with Udo Demant and Body Music with Bart Fermie.
Currently playing as freelance, living in Amsterdam and writing a PhD proposal.
Quintessences:
Violin I - Laura Rafecas
Violin II - Esin Yardimli Alves Pereira
Viola - Maria Sofia Espiga
Cello - Catarina Távora
Arrangements - Michael Becker
