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For a special occasion, a special concert. Easter is a period that lends itself to countless forms of artistic celebration, thanks to the abundance of extraordinary music that exists to celebrate this moment in the calendar. This year's programme will feature the music of Joseph Haydn, whose Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross translates seven moods into music, ranging from the greatest serenity to the turmoil of the earthquake that took place on Mount Calvary after Christ's passion. A work rarely performed in its orchestral setting and one that deserves your full and undivided attention.
Programme
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809)
The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
Choral "Erkenne mich, mein Hüter" from the St Matthew Passion (orchestral version)
Martim Sousa Tavares, conductor
Orquestra do Algarve
31/03
TAVIRA
Igreja do Carmo
6pm
Free entry subject to the seating capacity of the church
Municipio de Tavira, Organização
Ordem Terceira do Carmo, Apoio
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MARTIM SOUSA TAVARES
Conductor
Martim Sousa Tavares was born in Lisbon in 1991.
Graduated in Music Science and Orchestral Conducting between Lisbon, Milan, and Chicago, he completed his academic path with honours and Fulbright and Eckstein Foundation scholarships.
He founded in 2014 in Brescia the Orchestra di Maggio, followed in 2019 by the Orquestra Sem Fronteiras, based in Idanha-a-Nova and which has performed in over 100 venues between Portugal, Spain, and Brazil, having won in 2022 the Charlemagne Youth Prize of the European Parliament and the Mirpuri Foundation music award.
He is the chief conductor of Orquestra do Algarve since January 2023 and his recent activity includes concerts with the Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras and Orquestra do Norte.
He is very active in the field of cultural communication, having signed more than 150 programmes in RTP2, RTP Palco and Antena 2. In the Observador newspaper he maintains a newsletter and a weekly podcast: the most listened to in Portugal in the field of music.
He collaborates regularly with the theatre and, as an author, the following works stand out: the music for Vita & Virginia, presented at Teatro São Luiz in 2021, the children's opera O Anel do Unicórnio, premiered in 2021 and presented in seven cities, and Uma Outra Bela Adormecida, based on the short story by Agustina Bessa-Luís, in a co-production of Teatro Nacional de São João, Lu.Ca - Teatro Luís de Camões, Cineteatro Louletano and Centro Cultural Raiano which will premier in January 2023.
In the field of artistic direction, he conceived A Boca do Lobo, a classical music cycle at Lux-Frágil, took over the coordination of the cultural programme of Aveiro's application to become the European Capital of Culture in 2027 and is the director of the Sintra Festival.
