Festival Programme 2023

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Our full programme of concerts for 2024 will be published shortly -  meanwhile you can see below the performances we gave during the 2023 festival.

July 13th

Woodwinds in the Open Air

Praça, Ferreira do Zêzere | Thursday | 21.00H

Ligeti – Six 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

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

Il Campanello di Notte
Valerie Vervoort – Serafina
Luís Rodrigues – Don Annibale
Luís Rendas Pereira – Enrico
Juliana Mauger – Madama Rosa

Orchestra – Musicamerata
Stage Director – Claudio Hochman
Music Director – Brian MacKay

July 17th

Sol-Oeil

Choral Concert

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

O Setting Sun – David Conte
Éjszaka – György Ligeti
Zen Love Song – Roxanna Panufnik
Reggel – György Ligeti
Ecce Mormorar L’onde – Claudio Monteverdi
Sol-Oeil – Cândido Lima
Other Worlds Revealed – Meredith Monk

Záve – ZêzereArts Vocal Ensemble
Cesar Viana – Shakuhachi
Brian MacKay – Conductor

July 18th

Great Romantic Composers in the Churches of Paris

Choral Concert

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

Miserere – Charles Gounod 
O Salutaris Hostia – Jehan Alain
Huit Chants de Bretagne, Angélus (Organ) – Jean Langlais
Ave Maria – Franz Liszt
How lovely are the Messengers (St. Paul) – Felix Mendelssohn
Introduction et Menuet, Suite Gothique (Órgão) – Léon Boëlmann
Gloria (Messe Solennelle) – Louis Vierne

ZêzereArts Festival Choir

Pedro Correia – Conductor
João Carlos Azevedo – Organ

July 19th

Ultima Res

Choral Concert

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

Requiem: Introitus – Johannes Ockeghem

Tenebrae factae sunt – Gesualdo di Venosa

Audivi vocem de coelo – Duarte Lobo

Commissa mea pavesco – Filipe de Magalhães

Non mortui – Manuel Cardoso

Da Jakob vollendet hatte – Hermann Schein

O Tod, wie bitter bist du – Max Reger

Tenebrae factae sunt – Francis Poulenc

Aeternam – Bernat Vivancos

ZêzereArts Chamber Choir
Vasco Negreiros – Conductor

July 21st

Four Choral Seasons

Symphonic Choral Concert

Capelas Imperfeitas – Batalha | Friday | 19.00H

Komm, holder Lenz (Der Frühling) – Haydn  
Sure on this Shining Night – Samuel Barber 
Heil, o Sonne, Heil (Der Sommer) – Haydn  
Across the Vast Eternal Sky – Ola Gjeilo
So lohnet die Natur den Fleiß (Der Herbst) – Haydn  
Three Winter Songs – Trent Worthington
Dann bricht der grosse Morgen (Der Winter) – Haydn

Daniela Matos – Soprano
Fernando Guimarães – Tenor
Luís Rendas Pereira – Baritone

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

Komm, holder Lenz (Der Frühling) – Haydn  
Sure on this Shining Night – Samuel Barber 
Heil, o Sonne, Heil (Der Sommer) – Haydn  
Across the Vast Eternal Sky – Ola Gjeilo
So lohnet die Natur den Fleiß (Der Herbst) – Haydn  
Three Winter Songs – Trent Worthington
Dann bricht der grosse Morgen (Der Winter) – Haydn 

Daniela Matos – Soprano
Fernando Guimarães – Tenor
Luís Rendas Pereira – Baritone

ZêzereArts Festival Chorus
Musicamerata

Brian MacKay – Conductor

July 23rd

Youth Orchestra

Orchestral Concert

Teatro Municipal – Ourém | Sunday | 15.00H

ZêzereArts Festival Youth Orchestra
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 and others

Ilya Grubert, Eliot Lawson, Luís Pacheco Cunha – Violin

July 27th

Recital

Cine Teatro Paraíso – Tomar | Thursday | 15.00H

Recital by Masterclass 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
Double Concerto – Manuel Enríquez
“Prayer” – Violoncello and Strings – Ernest Bloch
Passacaglia – memórias medievais do Zêzere (world premiere) – Cândido Lima (composer in residence 2023)
Nocturne from “Shylock” Op 57 – Fauré
Serenade Op 48 – Tchaikovsky

ZêzereArts Festival Orchestra
Brian MacKay – Conductor

July 30th

Old and New

Orchestral Concert

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

Abdelazer Suite – Purcell
Double Concerto – Manuel Enríquez
“Prayer” – Violoncello and Strings – Ernest Bloch
Passacaglia – memórias medievais do Zêzere (world premiere) – Cândido Lima (composer in residence 2023)
Nocturne from “Shylock” Op 57 – Fauré
Serenade Op 48 – Tchaikovsky

ZêzereArts Festival Orchestra
Brian MacKay – Conductor

July 31st

Xerxes – Handel

Opera

Convento de Cristo – Tomar | Monday | 21.00H

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