Music Program
Cuarteto Colibriyo
Cuarteto Colibriyo is guitar quartet which cultivates the
rich tradition of guitar quartets from the Río de la Plata region, particularly
Uruguay. Cuarteto Colibriyo performs tangos, waltzes, and milongas with
arrangements by Pablo Rey. For this event, the quartet will present a selection
of milongas by two iconic Uruguayan artists: Alberto Mastra and Alfredo
Zitarrosa, the latter renowned for his deep association with guitar quartet
accompaniment. This milonga repertoire is the culmination of three projects
funded by the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture, the most recent one
developed in collaboration with the Alfredo Zitarrosa Archive.
Sara Cohen
Sara Cohen holds a PhD from UNIRIO (2007) and was a Professor (until 2019) at the
Department of Musicology and Musical Education at UFRJ, where she also obtained
a Bachelor’s in piano (with a Gold Medal) and an M. Sc. with the first thesis
on Ernesto Nazareth written in Brazil (1988). With a discography focused on
Brazilian music, she recorded the albums “Brasileiras” (1998), along
with pianist Miriam Braga; “Diálogos” (2000), featuring works by Caio
Senna; “Paulo Passos e Sara Cohen” (2006), featuring pieces for
clarinet/sax and piano; and “Pianoforte” (2010), with inedit works
for solo piano from Grupo Mosaico. She conceived, coordinated and produced the
multimedia project “Cartilha Rítmica for Piano by Almeida Prado”
(2006), which contains digitized versions of the revised manuscripts; texts
about the rhythmic strategies explored by the composer (written along with
musicologist Salomea Gandelman); and an audio CD in which she plays the
Cartilha’s exercises. Since 2022, she has been a member of musical group Tira
o Dedo do Pudim. During the music program, Sara will be performing works by Ernesto Nazereth and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Carlos Cancino-Chacón
Carlos Cancino-Chacón is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Computational Perception at Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), Austria. He is also the Principal Investigator of the Rach3 Project, funded by the Austrian Science Fund. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Johannes Kepler University Linz and he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Classical Piano Performance under the renowned Mexican pianist Héctor Rojas at the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City.
Carlos has performed as a soloist or accompanist in various venues across Mexico, Austria, Germany, and the UK. His current research, through the Rach3 Project, focuses on developing computational, data-driven methods to study long-term piano rehearsal, leveraging advances in AI and machine learning—a pursuit that conveniently doubles as an excuse to practice the piano more often.
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