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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | City of London Festival celebrates Portuguese culture
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Press Releases
Music Monday 21 and June culture to Friday 9 from July the
Portuguese-speaking world
This year, the City of London Festival (21 June to
9 July) is celebrating music, dance, poetry and
art from the Portuguese-speaking world
including Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Goa,
Mozambique and Portugal itself.
Festival director, Ian Ritchie, says, “Each year
the City of London Festival explores and
develops artistic and economic connections
between the City and the rest of the world via
our ‘Trading Places’ theme. In 2010, our
spotlight falls on Portugal - Britain’s oldest ally -
and the rest of the Portuguese-speaking world.
We looking forward to a wonderful three weeks
celebrating the rich cultural diversity found
within and between these countries and would
like to thank the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
for helping us to do that.”
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK, director,
Andrew Barnett says, “One of our key aims is to
help improve people’s perception of each other
by providing opportunities for interaction through
culture and between cultures, which, in 2010,
has embraced the promotion of Lusophone art,
music and literature in translation. We are
particularly delighted that the City of London
Festival carries forward, through an outstanding
range of musical genres, our previous support for
the Atlantic Waves festival of contemporary
Portuguese music.”
The Festival opens on 21 June with the UK debut
of the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra when
Pedro Carneiro conducts the virtuoso Brazilian
pianist Cristina Ortiz playing Chopin’s Piano
Concerto No 2.
The Festival’s major commission
this year is from one of Portugal’s leading
contemporary composers Miguel Azguime whose
new work for the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble,
(ThS)inking Survival Kit,
has its UK premiere as
part of a programme of Portuguese works (6
July). The brilliant Portuguese pianist Artur
Pizarro, former winner of the Leeds International
Piano Competition, makes three Festival
appearances – with the English Chamber
Orchestra (24 June), as a soloist performing the
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