Brazilian pianist and composer Heloísa Fernandes paints her musical pictures with contrasts—driving rhythm and delicacy, joyous dance, quiet introspection, playfulness, and elegance. With this vast artistic vocabulary, Fernandes reveals a Brazil largely unknown even to Brazilians. Her sources of inspiration are often folkloric and ancient, but what she makes of them is modern and unique. Hers is a singular voice in the new generation of 21st-century Brazilian musicians.
This engagement of the Heloísa Fernandez Quartet is made possible in part through the Iber Exchange program of Mid-Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with Ibermúsicas.
The Dr. Aaron S. Litwack ’42 Fund Performance.
This performance is supported in part by the Cyril S. Lang ’49 Center for the Humanities Endowment Fund.
Beyond categorization
... Luminous and lyrical …
... a joy both sunny and sober, a contentment in the fun and freedom of making music, blended with the responsibility to play everything with meaning, even in the free improvisations ...