braimah kanneh-mason + plínio fernandes
17 january 2024 / 8pm / mama roux’s, birmingham
100% funded (sold out)
Braimah Kanneh-Mason is joined by guitarist Plínio Fernandes to play Paganini, Piazzolla, and more in Mama Roux's, Digbeth
7pm: doors open
7.30pm: last entry
8pm: braimah + plínio set
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Please note that due to the venue's license, this noisenight is strictly 16+.
the venue:
Based under the railway arches in bohemian Digbeth, Mama Roux's is Birmingham's party palace. A home for disco and cabaret, noisenights were the New Orleans-themed club's first classical night.
We first visited with two sold-out sets with Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Harry Baker in November 2022. We can't wait to return for what will be our first Digbeth date of 2024.
the music:
After their sold-out debut collaboration at the noisenights summer residency last year, Plínio and Braimah join forces for a set of rare guitar and violin duets written by musicians from Serbia, Italy, Argentina, Spain, and beyond.
Celebrating Plínio's South American heritage, the programme features movements from Astor Piazzolla's Histoire du Tango and compositions by guitar virtuoso Sergio Assad, amongst others.
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the programme:
Astor Piazzolla - Histoire du Tango
Niccolò Paganini - Cantabile
Pablo de Sarasate - Playera
Manuel de Falla - Danza Espanola, from La vida breve
Sergio Assad - Menino
trad. - Ajde Jano
plínio fernandes:
From São Paulo, Brazil, classical guitarist Plínio Fernandes takes his inspiration from a long line of greats - Antônio Carlos Jobim, Milton Nascimento, Jacob do Bandolim, Violeta Parra, Edu Lobo, Cartola and Laurindo Almeida - the guitar being so central to the Brazilian folk tradition.
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Adding to that cannon, his six years of studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London have opened up a whole world of Western Classical Music to his repertoire.
Recently signed to Decca Records, New York, his debut album will feature duets with Braimah Kanneh-Mason and legendary Brazilian artist María Rita. Fernandes will also reunite with long time collaborator Sheku Kanneh-Mason after Fernandes appeared on Sheku’s acclaimed 2020 album Elgar for their duet of ‘Scarborough Fair’ which has since featured on the BBC’s Imagine documentary ‘This House is a full of Music’. With a flare of youthful excitement, enchanting lyricism and dancing rhythm, Plínio’s debut album is an entrancing collection of works for solo guitar weaving together all his musical loves and telling his complex and captivating international story in sound. “I chose songs that I grew up listening to,” Fernandes explains, “and in many cases I fell in love with the guitar through them.”
Born into a family of musicians, Fernandes received his first guitar lessons from his father. At the age of 12, after winning national youth guitar competitions, he played as a guest soloist with the Campo Grande Symphony Orchestra and took private lessons in São Paulo from the renowned teacher Henrique Pinto and later, at 16, from Pinto’s student and protégé, Fabio Zanon. Fernandes then received a full scholarship to attend the International Campos do Jordão Winter Festival from 2011-2014. During that period, he gave recitals and performed in chamber concerts in some 35 cities throughout Brazil and Chile. Encouraged by his family and teachers, he made the move to London to pursue a career as a concert musician. His teachers at the Royal Academy of Music (2014-2020) included Zanon, Prof. Michael Lewin, Steve Goss, and David Russell, under a full scholarship funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Education. Fernandes is also committed to music education and was recently invited to join the Music Masters charity as an ambassador.
braimah kanneh-mason:
Braimah Kanneh-Mason is a dynamic and versatile young violinist. He has performed throughout the UK, Europe, USA and the Caribbean. An avid chamber musician, Braimah is a member of the Kanneh-Mason Piano Trio, Cassadó Ensemble and Kaleidoscope Collective.
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He has performed at venues and festivals such as the BBC Proms, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, Kings Place, Highgate International Chamber Music Festival, Leicester International Chamber Music Festival and collaborated with artists such as Nicola Benedetti, Tom Poster and Priya Mitchell. Braimah is a passionate advocate for equal opportunity and diversity in music education and is a Junior Ambassador for Music in Secondary Schools Trust (MiSST). He has been a mentor at Sistema England, Junior Music Works and a violin tutor for consecutive years at the Antigua Music Camp. He is currently an artist in residence at Brighton College.
Braimah is currently studying with Barnabás Kelemen and Eszter Perenyi at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music where he was a scholarship student with Mateja Marinkovic and Jack Liebeck, winning the Harold Craxton Prize, the John McAslan Prize and the Dame Ruth Railton Chamber Music Prize.
Braimah currently performs on a Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, kindly lent to him by the Beare’s International Violin Society.
Rewards: standing tickets to noisenight57 at 8pm on Wednesday 17 January 2024 at Mama Roux’s, Birmingham. First-come, first-served for the best views.
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