Festival Programme 2023

July 13th

Woodwinds in the Open Air

Praça, Ferreira do Zêzere | Thursday | 21.00H

Ligeti – 6 Bagatelles

Musicamerata – Wind Quintet

July 15th

Opera - Double Bill

Debussy e Melisande - César Viana

Il Campanello di Notte - Donizetti

Cine Teatro Ivone Silva – Ferreira do Zêzere | Saturday | 21.00H

Elenco:
Debussy e Melisande
Natasa Sibalic – Mary
Marcelo Alexandre – Debussy
Miguel Maduro-Dias – Maeterlinck

Il Campanello di Notte
Valerie Vorvoort – Serafina
Luís Rodrigues – Don Annibale
João Merino – Enrico
Juliana Mauger – Madama Rosa

Orquestra – Musicamerata
Encenação – Claudio Hochman
Direção – Brian MacKay

July 17th

Sol - Oeil

Choral Concert

Claustro Principal – Convento de Cristo, Tomar | Monday | 21.00H

Programme inspired by the work Sol – Oeil by our composer in residence, Cândido Lima

Záve – ZêzereArts Ensemble Vocal
Brian MacKay – Conductor

July 18th

Grande Compositores Romanticos nas Igrejas de Paris

Choral Concert

Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Graça – Tomar | Tuesday | 19.00H

Coro do Festival ZêzereArts

Pedro Correia – Conductor
João Carlos Azevedo – Órgão

July 19th

Ultima Res

Choral Concert

Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Graça – Tomar | Wednesday | 19.00H

ZêzereArts Chamber Choir
Vasco Negreiros – Conductor

July 21st

Four Choral Seasons

Symphonic Choral Concert

Capelas Imperfeitas – Batalha | Friday | 19.00H

ZêzereArts Festival Chorus
Musicamerata

Brian MacKay – Conductor

July 22nd

Masterclass - Ilya Grubert

Recital

Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal – Tomar | Saturday | 15.00H

Students from Ilya Grubert’s Masterclass

Four Choral Seasons

Symphonic Choral Concert

Claustro Principal, Convento de Cristo – Tomar | Saturday | 19.00H

ZêzereArts Festival Chorus
Musicamerata

Brian MacKay – Conductor

July 23rd

Youth Orchestra

Orchestral Concert

Teatro Municipal – Ourém | Sunday | 15.00H

Orquestra Jovem do Festival Zêzere Arts
João Paulo Fernandes – Conductor

July 24th

Masterclass - Ilya Grubert

Recital

Cine Teatro Paraíso – Tomar  | Monday | 15.00H

Students from Ilya Grubert’s Masterclass

Ilya Grubert e Amigos

Recital

Igreja Matriz de Santo Aleixo – Beco, Ferreira do Zêzere | Monday | 21.00H

Chaconne – Bach
Duos – Bartok e others

Ilya Grubert, Eliot Lawson, Luís Pacheco Cunha – Violin

July 27th

Recital

Cine Teatro Paraíso – Tomar | Thursday | 15.00H

Recital by Masterclasses Students

Teachers:
Eliot Lawson, Luís Pacheco Cunha, Matilde Loureiro, Joe Kwok – Violin
Jorge Alves – Viola
Catherine Strynkx – Violoncello
Adriano Aguiar – Double Bass

July 28th

Musical Experiments

Centro Cultural – Ferreira do Zêzere | Friday | 19.00H

Creative Sketches – Cândido Lima

ZêzereArts Festival Teachers and Students

July 29th

Old and New

Orchestral Concert

Claustro Principal, Convento de Cristo – Tomar | Saturday | 21.00H

Abdelazer Suite – Purcell
Concerto Duplo – Manuel Enríquez
“Prayer” – Violoncelo e Cordas – Ernst Bloch
Passacaglia – memórias medievais do Zêzere (obra em estreira mundial) – Cândido Lima (compositor em residência 2023)
Nocturne de “Shylock” Op 57 – Fauré
Serenade Op 48 – Tchaikovsky

Orquestra do Festival Zêzere Arts
Brian MacKay – Conductor

July 30th

Old and New

Orchestral Concert

Igreja Matriz de Areias – Ferreira do Zêzere | Sunday | 18.00H

Abdelazer Suite – Purcell
Concerto Duplo – Manuel Enríquez
“Prayer” – Violoncelo e Cordas – Ernst Bloch
Passacaglia – memórias medievais do Zêzere (obra em estreira mundial) – Cândido Lima (compositor em residência 2023)
Nocturne de “Shylock” Op 57 – Fauré
Serenade Op 48 – Tchaikovsky

Orquestra do Festival Zêzere Arts
Brian MacKay – Conductor

July 31st

Xerxes - Handel

Opera

Convento de Cristo – Tomar | Monday | 21.00H

Atelier da Ópera de Aveiro
Orquestra Filamonica das Beiras
António Vassalo Lourenço – Conductor