Sunday, September 25
Trakošćan Castle, Knight’s Hall, 11.00 a.m.
Concert on the occasion of 30 years of diplomaric relations between Portugal and the Republic Croatia
Concert accompanied by baroque coffee
Teresa Duarte, soprano
Tiago Matias, lute
Programme:
Early Music of Ireland, Portugal and Croatia
Cancioneiro de Elvas
Venid a sospirar
Já dei fim a meus cuydados
Se do mal que me quereis
Já não podeis ser contentes
Señora aunque no os miro
Cancioneiro de Paris
Na fonte está Lianor
Minina dos olhos verdes
Luys Milan
Falai miña amor
Turlough O’Carolan
Planxty Irwin
Oh Banquet Not / Plantxy Irwin (pjesma/poetry: Thomas Moore)
Plangsty Connor
Roderick Morison
Cumh Peathar Ruari – Rory Dall’s Sister’s Lament (pjesma/poetry: Isibeul Ní Mhic Cailín)
Rory Dall O’Cahan
Tabhair dom do Lámh / Give me your hand (pjesma/poetry: Séathrún Céitinn / Geoffrey Keating)
Cithara octochorda
Zdravo, Djevice
About the performer:
Teresa Duarte was born in Lisbon and began her musical studies at the age of seven playing cello. She completed two degrees in Singing at the Lisbon Superior School of Music (ESML) and at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and a Masters in Music Education at ESML. During her academic career, she studied singing with Armando Possante, Sílvia Mateus, Luís Madureira, Ana Paula Russo, Harry van Berne, Pierre Mak, Sasja Hunnego, Lúcia Lemos and Manuela de Sá. She also participated in vocal improvement courses with Jill Feldman, Isabel Alcobia, Susan Waters, Ira Siff, Margreet Honig, Ann Murray, Gabriele Fontana and Sandy Oliver. In Amsterdam, she worked with the directors Floris Visser, Gusta Teengs Gerritsen and Corina van Eijk. She collaborated with Capella Sanctae Crucis, La Academia de los Nocturnos, Sete Lágrimas, Grupo Vocal Olisipo, Orquestra XXI and MPMP (Patrimonial Movement for Portuguese Music). She is a member of the Gulbenkian Choir and regularly collaborates with the Ensemble Gli Accenti and the Ensemble São Tomás de Aquino. She is a co-founding member of Ensemble 258, a group dedicated to the interpretation of Baroque music and the recovery of European musical heritage.
Tiago Matias finished in 2002 the Complementary Course of Classical Guitar at the Conservatory of Music of Aveiro Calouste Gulbenkian, obtaining a maximum classification of 20 in the final guitar exam. In 2005, he concluded his degree in Guitar at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. As an Erasmus scholarship holder, he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid during the academic year 2003/2004.
He was awarded in several guitar competitions, among them the 3rd prize in the Legato Competition (Porto, 2000) and the 1st prize in the Música en Compostela (Santiago de Compostela, 2004). He started in 2005 the study of early plucked instruments, such as the theorbo, lute, vihuela and baroque guitar. He regularly collaborates with Concerto Campestre, Vocal Ensemble, Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa, Ludovice Ensemble, Sete Lágrimas and Orquestra Barroca da Casa da Música, among others. He recorded 13 albums with some of these groups and played in the best concert halls and music festivals in 20 countries from Europe to Asia. In 2012, with Filipe Faria, he founded Noa Noa, a group that released Língua in 2014, his first record, which was the best-selling classical music album in Portugal that year. This was followed by Língua 2 (2015), En la mar (2016) and Palavricas d’amor (2017). In 2021, he recorded and edited his first solo album – Cifras de Viola – with unpublished works from the Musical Manuscript 97 from the General Library of the University of Coimbra. This recorded was nominated for the RTP / Vodafone Play Awards the following year, for the best classical record. As a pedagogue, he supervised masterclasses on lute and guitar, teaching the same subjects at the Aveiro´s Calouste Gulbenkian Music Conservatory, Bairrada Arts School and National Conservatory (Lisbon). He has been director of the Quartel das Artes (Oliveira do Bairro) since January 2018 and a PhD candidate in Art Studies at the University of Coimbra since 2021.