Event: Music in the Park

Venue: Nehru Park, Chanakyapuri

Time: 6:30pm

Date: September 24, 2011

Anders Clemens Øien – Classical Guitar

Guitarist Anders Øien started playing the guitar at the age of 11, and continued towards a professional music education at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. After graduation he received his diploma from Escuela de Musica Luthier in  Barcelona under the tutelage of the famous guitarist Alex Garrobé. Mr. Øien has continuously searched for brilliance by approaching the utmost of classical guitar-players such as Manuel Barrueco, David Russell, Marco Socias, Marco Smaili and John Williams.

Mr. Øien was the first Scandinavian performer to receive the prestigious Andrés Segovia award in La Herradura. He has also received prizes in both the princess Christiana competition in Madrid and the Alhambra competition in Valencia. In 2002 he was selected as “Intro” musician by Rikskonsertene.

Being a versatile musician, Mr. Øien has in recent years played with a multitude of musicians from many countries (string quartets, vocalists, violinists, flutists – and also with large orchestras of up to a 100 musicians: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the symphony orchestras of Stavanger, Trondheim and Kristiansand, Eurasian philharmonic and Albacete Orquestra.

He has released 3 appraised CDs at the Nordic Sound label.

www.nordicsound.no    www.admusica.no

Gustavo Tavares – Cello

Gustavo Tavares has been a student of Antonio Janigro at the Stuttgart Musik Hochschule in Germany, where he graduated with the highest marks in 1986. He received his Doctorate at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

He has performed throughout his home country, Brazil, and in some of the most famous concert halls and festivals around the world. He has appeared the Orchestra d’Archi Italiana, the National Theater Orchestra in Brasília, and the Johannesburg Philharmonic.

He has been described as “one of the most important Brazilian names in the classical music of our time” and is considered a specialist on Latin American music. Together with clarinettist Paquito d’Rivera and pianist Pablo Zinger, he created the ensemble Triangulo to present a latin American music repertoire. The ensemble recorded several CDs: one of them was nominated for a Grammy Award (2001), and another was listed as “Record of the Year (1997)

Musical arrangements of Gustavo Tavares have recorded by artists such as YoYo Ma and the Buenos Aires String Quartet. Gustavo Tavares enjoys teaching and this activity has brought him in contact with talented young musicians, in well established conservatories – but also in poor neighbourhoods in Africa and the Americas.

Alongside his own concert schedule, Gustavo Tavares has been engaged as one of the solo cellists of the Norwegian National Opera´s Orchestra since 1992. In addition he has been playing with a jazz band, he has been co-operating with one of Norway´s leading authors in a multimedia project and he has developed two school concert programs with Rikskonsertene.

www.gustavotavares.com