AMAZONIA IN CONCERT
Simone Menezes & Sebastiao Salgado
Villa-Lobos and Philip Glass
Commanded by Philharmonie de Paris in 2019, "Amazonia in Concert" was created by the conductor Simone Menezes and the photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Featuring the music of Villa-Lobos and Philip Glass, it's an impressive and powerful projects that has being performed in the major concert halls in the world such as Philharmonie de Paris, Barbican in London, Sala Sao Paulo in Brazil, Zurich Opera, always with major orchestras such as Santa Cecilia Orchestra and it continues to travel in the next two years. The Project has the participation of the soprano Camila Titinger.
“BEAUTY PUNCH! the music of Villa-Lobos and the images of Salgado. One would think that each note of the score was thought for the project which is taking shape before our eyes ... impossible to describe by words the force of the meeting between images and this music. A total osmosis reigns from start to finish, to which the vibrant direction, full of colors and relief, but never flashy, of Simone Menezes - what a discovery this artist is! (Concert Classic)
Sebastião Salgado’s photographs of the rainforest combined with music with Amazonian connections in this powerful and moving concert featuring the Britten Sinfonia under Simone Menezes ,indelible memories ! (The Guardian)
METANOIA
Simone Menezes & K – A Music Documentary
A film by Paul Smaczny
Metanoia – the word itself – means beyond thought; to broaden and change the way of seeing. ‘Metanoia’, which crosses both time and borders with the works of Giacomo Puccini, Arvo Pärt, Alexander Borodin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Ennio Morricone, is steeped in this concept: From Puccini, who only wrote one sacred work on account of the ‘Almighty God’ commanding him to write ‘only for the stage’, to Bach, who possessed an astonishing ability to make us experience transcendence using the simplest of elements, to Pärt, whose ten-year creative crisis birthed a new, highly original musical language. Together with her ensemble, K, the choir Sequenza 9.3, and violinist Manon Galy, Simone Menezes travels across Italy and invites us to experience the thought-transcending aspects of music, and to uncover the personal journeys of Metanoia of some of the greatest figures in music and art.
Watch it on Vimeo on Demand or Medici.tv
Metanoia won the prize for the best “PERFORMANCE & DOCUMENTARIES” at the International Classical Music Awards 2023!
The awards wrote: “The music documentary ‘Metanoia’ sets new standards in terms of content and form. Alongside original musical selections, a trip to Italy and prominent interlocutors, the protagonists explore basic philosophical aspects of music and music reception. By linking the subject with other disciplines such as visual arts, sociology, architecture, dance or technology, they generate new ways of thinking around the topic.”
"Together they created magic in the film, some astonishing performances. Such daring concepts could only come from a deep and free artist and thinker" BBC Music Magazinetopic.”
Simone Menezes & K – A Music Documentary
A film by Paul Smaczny
Metanoia – the word itself – means beyond thought; to broaden and change the way of seeing. ‘Metanoia’, which crosses both time and borders with the works of Giacomo Puccini, Arvo Pärt, Alexander Borodin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Ennio Morricone, is steeped in this concept: From Puccini, who only wrote one sacred work on account of the ‘Almighty God’ commanding him to write ‘only for the stage’, to Bach, who possessed an astonishing ability to make us experience transcendence using the simplest of elements, to Pärt, whose ten-year creative crisis birthed a new, highly original musical language. Together with her ensemble, K, the choir Sequenza 9.3, and violinist Manon Galy, Simone Menezes travels across Italy and invites us to experience the thought-transcending aspects of music, and to uncover the personal journeys of Metanoia of some of the greatest figures in music and art.
Watch it on Vimeo on Demand or Medici.tv
Metanoia won the prize for the best “PERFORMANCE & DOCUMENTARIES” at the International Classical Music Awards 2023!
The awards wrote: “The music documentary ‘Metanoia’ sets new standards in terms of content and form. Alongside original musical selections, a trip to Italy and prominent interlocutors, the protagonists explore basic philosophical aspects of music and music reception. By linking the subject with other disciplines such as visual arts, sociology, architecture, dance or technology, they generate new ways of thinking around the topic.”
"Together they created magic in the film, some astonishing performances. Such daring concepts could only come from a deep and free artist and thinker" BBC Music Magazinetopic.”
ACCENTS
Simone Menezes & K
K, a multicultural orchestra under the direction of the Italian-Brazilian conductor Simone Menezes, is bringing out its first album. Born out of the awareness that classical music was exported throughout the world and took on multiple influences in the last century, K’s project seeks to find the original accents of the works it performs. Their goal: to tell each story in its original language.
" Fondé en 2019 par la chef italo-brésilienne Simone Menezes, l’Ensemble K se dit “Klassique, Kosmopolite, Kontemporain, Kréatif, Konnecté”.
Et c’est vrai ! " Le Monde
"Magnifique ... véritablement plaisant et excitant" BBC
