Peter Ferreira's Official Podcast http://www.peterferreira.com en-us © 2007 Peter Ferreira Peter Ferreira's Concerts and Recordings Peter Ferreira All About Peter Ferreira's concerts, music projects, recordings and much more. Look for our Podcast in the iTunes Music Store Critically acclaimed concert violinist, recording artist and author, Peter Ferreira (Pedro M. Ferreira), was born on March 13, 1970 and has been a very active violinist since the age of 6. Greatly inspired by his grandfather who was himself a violinist, he entered the Conservatorio Regional De Musica in Coimbra, Portugal, where he studied with teacher Dario Peixoto and later made his concerto debut at age 8. Mr. Ferreira has received various awards during his years in high school and college while studying with great violinists such as Joel Pitchon, Mara Milkis, Isaac Stern, Erick Friedman, James Graseck and participated in master classes with Pinchas Zukerman. As a soloist, Mr. Ferreira is admired and praised for the beauty of his tone, his musicianship and his balance of virtuosity and sensitivity. He has performed at numerous concert venues and with various orchestras and ensembles in the United States , Canada , South America, and Europe. He has performed as soloist and maintained the position of Concert Master or Assistant Concert Master for a number of professional orchestras in Connecticut and New York , and for the Nutmeg Opera Orchestra. He also founded the Dresden String Quartet in 1998, and performed as its first violinist through 2002. Finally, Mr. Ferreira is an active freelance musician and composer. In 2003, one of his personal compositions was featured in a video documentary about the underwater exploration of the German U853 submarine which sank off the Rhode Island coast during WWII. As an independent artist, Mr. Ferreira teaches privately, lectures, and conducts master classes at different schools and through his private studios. He has also recorded four CD albums, two of them in his own studio and now under his own independent record label AEMINIUM Records. Some of his recordings include: • Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons) - Antonio Vivaldi • Sonata No.5, Opus 24 "Spring Sonatas" - L. Van Beethoven • A collection of Traditional Pieces and works by Portuguese composers • Mozart Violin Sonatas • Various Encore pieces including works by Massenet, Tchaikovsky, Bach, De Falla, P. Sarasate, Granados, Astor Piazzolla and much more. • Selected works from the J. S. Bach Sonatas and Partitas In addition, he has been equally in demand as a soloist and recording artist. During the next season, Peter will continue to expand his presence on the concert stage with a series of important orchestral debuts and recital tours with Duo Amadis (Amadis Duo). Mr. Ferreira is also a published author and columnist for Mundo Portugues and Comunidades-USA Magazines. His book, The Violin Companion, is available online and will be available soon on Amazon and at other book retailers. Peter Ferreira pferreira@peterferreira.com clean no The Improvisations http://www.peterferreira.com/listeningroomimprovisations.html The Improvisations - They are exactly what the name refers to... improvisations. They have been recorded during concerts or recording sessions without any preparation, planning and are definitely not played from a book or sheet music. Most times they are played while the recording crew sets-up the microphones and so the quality of the sound is not always the best. They are played and improvised from the heart! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia says: Improvisation is an important aspect of music in general. Musical improvisers often understand the idiom of one or more musical styles—e.g. blues, rock, folk, jazz—and work within the idiom to express ideas with creativity and originality. Improvisation can take place as a solo performance, or interdependently in ensemble with other players. When done well, it often elicits gratifying emotional responses from the audience. Very few musicians have ever dared to offer fully improvised concerts such as the famous improvised piano recitals by composers/pianists like Franz Liszt, or the origins of Liszt's improvisation in an earlier tradition of playing variations on a theme that was mastered and epitomized by Mozart and Beethoven.

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]]> podcasts Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:00:00 EST The Improvisations clean no Peter Ferreira, Aeminium Records, Amadis Duo, Music, classical, classical music, art, free music, improvisations Massenet - Meditation from "Thais" http://www.peterferreira.com/listeningroommeditationm.html Thaïs is an opera in three acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Louis Gallet based on the novel of the same name by Anatole France. It was first performed at the Opéra in Paris on March 16, 1894, starring the American soprano Sybil Sanderson, for whom Massenet had written the title role. Set in Roman Egypt, the story concerns a Cenobite monk, Athanaël, who attempts to convert Thaïs, a courtesan of Alexandria and devotée of Venus, to Christianity, but discovers, too late, that his obsession with her is rooted in lust. It has been described as bearing a kind of religious eroticism and has spawned many controversial productions. Its famous Méditation for violin, an entr'acte played before a closed curtain between the scenes of Act II, is among the most frequently performed concert pieces and has been arranged for many different instruments. After Manon and Werther, Thaïs is one of Massenet's most performed operas, but it is not part of the standard operatic repertoire. The role of Thaïs, similar to another Massenet heroine, Esclarmonde, is notoriously difficult to sing and is reserved for only the most gifted of performers. Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842 – August 13, 1912) was a French composer. He is best known for his operas, which were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th century; they afterwards fell into oblivion for the most part, but have undergone periodic revivals since the 1980s. Certainly Manon and Werther have held the scene uninterruptedly for well over a century. He wrote the famous "Meditation" for his opera Thais. It has gone down as one of the great violin classics of all time..

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Peter Ferreira and Aeminium Records is pleased to share this concert for your listening pleasure. For details see www.aeminiumrecords.com and/or www.peterferreira.com.

]]> podcasts Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:00:00 EST Meditation from "Thais" clean no Peter Ferreira, Aeminium Records, Amadis Duo, Music, classical, classical music, art, free music, Massenet