Piano prodigy gives intimate recital at Café Coreto
Allan Grando will perform for a select group of 50 people next Thursday (19), at 19 pm. The young man from São Paulo is considered one of the most talented of the new generation of Brazilian musicians, with international recognition.
247_ Chopin, Villa-Lobos, Rachmaninoff are some of the composers included in the program of the piano recital with Allan Grando, on Thursday (19), at 19 pm, at Café Coreto, in Goiânia. Award-winning composer, the 26-year-old from São Paulo is considered one of the most talented of the new generation of Brazilian musicians, with international recognition.
Celebrated for his vibrant performance, Grando performs for the second time in Goiânia, for a select group of 50 people, with tickets costing R$ 15,00, available at Café Coreto. "I seek to create sound atmospheres that allow people to dream, sparing neither my body nor my soul in this endeavor," he reveals.
The recital is part of the Café Coreto's cultural program, which has been intensifying its artistic agenda aimed at encouraging activities in the performing arts, literature, music, and audiovisual media. "In addition to boosting business for the café and the shop, the cultural activities we promote are directly related to well-being and the development of an audience for high-quality artistic products," explains businesswoman Ana Christina da Rocha Lima, owner of Café Coreto.
Profile
Allan Grando began his musical studies at the age of nine with Professor Hermínio Spalla, then entered the Lapa Conservatory, where he studied piano with Professor Renata Nacarato Sbrigh. At the age of 15, he continued his studies at the São Paulo Dramatic and Musical Conservatory, having as teachers: Sônia Asprino (piano), Francesco Pezzella (music theory), and Ana Maria de Crescenzo Muniz (solfège). With Liza Kechichian (Lebanon), he continued to perfect his skills for three years after the Conservatory.
The musician has distinguished himself in the classical music scene as a young recitalist in some of São Paulo's main concert halls, such as: MuBE (Brazilian Sculpture Museum), Centro Cultural Caixa Econômica Federal (where he performed in nine recitals), Centro Cultural São Paulo, PROMON, Bunkyo (Brazilian Society of Japanese Culture and Social Assistance), and has also performed in the SESC cycle and in various other traditional venues such as the Monteiro Lobato Library. His repertoire includes pieces such as Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, La Campanella and Saint Francis of Paola Walking on the Waves (Liszt), Studies (Chopin), Bachianas Brasileiras and Cirandas (Heitor Villa-Lobos), among others.
In 2004, he was one of the winners of the Furnas Musical Generation Award, which included a performance at Espaço PROMON as a prize. The following year, Grando released his first CD and DVD on the Brazil Bizz Music label, with the support of his producer Maira Sales and singer Mona Gadelha, where he dedicated one of his compositions (Vento Solar) to music critic Luis Roberto Trench, one of his supporters who considers him "as a composer and pianist one of the great talents of his generation".
In early 2008, he won the APCA (São Paulo Association of Art Critics) Revelation Award as a pianist and composer. In July 2009, he participated in the Laboratori Estivi Internazionali di Perfezionamento Musicale Melos Arte & Musica Castello di Cortanze, standing out among the students. His teacher was the Brazilian pianist Fabio Luz, coordinator of the piano department and tenured professor, since 2006, at the Accademia Superiore "Città della Musica e del Teatro", based in Penne (Pescara), Italy. Upon returning to Brazil, he created a series in homage to our great Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, at the Teatro Estúdio, in memory of the fiftieth anniversary of his death, recording this material on DVD.
Grando returned to the Cortanze festival and remained in Italy in July 2010, studying at the Accademia di Pinerolo with Franco Scala, Massimiliano Génot, and Laura Richaud. Upon returning from this period in Italy, he was nominated to receive the title of Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit Carlos Gomes, which he received on January 20, 2011, becoming the youngest member the Order has ever awarded in its history.
As a composer, in addition to Vento Solar, Grando composed a Toccata, both for piano, and is finalizing a Sonata for Violin and Piano, which will be dedicated in memoriam to Gabriel Luciano Trench, with a strong national flavor.