Evening of chamber music at Teatru Manoel

Teatru Manoel announced preparations to host an evening of chamber music featuring leading French violist and professor at the Reina Sofia School in Madrid, Gérard Caussé.

The concert entitled ‘An Evening of Chamber Music for Viola and Piano’ will be hosted on Tuesday 6 March and will also feature Portuguese pianist Felipe Ribeiro Pinto.

The programme will feature popular pieces such Carl Maria von Weber’s Andante e Rondo Ungarese, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata in A Major, Op. 69 and Cesar Franck’s Sonata in A Major.

“Regarded as France’s leading violist, Gérard Caussé is widely acclaimed as ranking among the handful of great international viola talents of our time and one of the few who, since Primrose, have made the viola once again a solo instrument in its own right,” the Teatru Manoel said.

This has been recognised by an impressive range of major record labels, whether for solo, concerto or chamber music recordings, earning him numerous awards from the international music press. 

Highly respected by his peers, Caussé performs and records regularly with household names such as Emmanuel Krivine, Charles Dutoit, Kent Nagano, Gidon Kremer, Maria João Pires, Augustin Dumay, François-René Duchable, Paul Meyer, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon.

Gérard Caussé came to international recognition in the mid-1970s as a founding member and solo viola for Pierre Boulez’s Ensemble Intercontemporain and continued to be a champion of new repertoire for the viola, with over ten concertos written especially for him.

The violist recently premiered viola concertos by Philippe Hersant and Katsuhiro Oguri and has appeared as soloist with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, performing repertoire ranging from baroque music, to Bruch, Berlioz, Bartók, Stravinsky, Britten, Walton, Martinů, and Mozart, the last of whom Caussé considers the first to understand the purpose and uniqueness of the viola.

Pinto-Ribeiro teaches at the Portuguese Catholic University where he holds a professorship and enjoys an intense career as a soloist and chamber musician and has mastered a wide ranging repertoire extending from the Baroque to contemporary music.

The pianist is also artistic director of the Schostakovich Ensemble, which is the resident ensemble at the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon.

'An Evening of Chamber Music for Viola and Piano' commences at 20.00 hrs. Tickets may be booked via Teatru Manoel’s booking office on 21 246389 or email [email protected]