Saturday 2nd December 2023, at 19:30hrs

Venue: Linlithgow Primary School, EH49 6HB

Soprano and Piano

Tickets: £16, U26 £6, Children free. Also included in Linlithgow Arts Guild Season Ticket

Filipa Portela and Gregor Forbes perform songs and piano pieces by Debussy connected with the South of France and Portugal Programme: “A Mediterranean Evening” Delibes: Filles de Cadiz Debussy: Fêtes galantes, Set 1 Solo piano: Debussy: La sérénade interrompue (Préludes Bk. 1) Debussy: La Terrasse des audiences du clair de lune (Préludes Bk. 2) Toldrà: Seis Canciones Solo piano: Debussy: La Puerta del Vino (Préludes Book 2) Mendoza: Nana Ravel: Vocalize en forme de Habanera De Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas Montsalvatge: Canción de cuna para dormir un negrito

Filipa Portela and Gregor Forbes perform songs and piano pieces by Debussy connected with the South of France and Portugal

Programme:

“A Mediterranean Evening”

Claude Debussy - Fêtes Galantes (Livre 1)
Xavier Montsalvatge – Canción de cuna para dormir un negrito
Claude Debussy – La sérénade interrompue (Préludes Book 1)
Claude Debussy – La Terrasse des audiences du clair de lune (Préludes Book 2)
Carlos Guastavino - La rosa y el sauce
Eduardo Toldrà – Seis Canciones
-Interval-
Claude Debussy – La Puerta del Vino (Préludes Book 2)
Henri Duparc – Chanson Triste
Manuel de Falla – Siete canciones populares españolas
Maurice Ravel – Vocalize en forme de Habanera
Léo Delibes – Filles de Cadiz

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Filipa Portela, Portuguese soprano, born in Avis, completed her studies in 2018. She began her training at the University of Aveiro under the tutelage of Isabel Alcobia and completed her degree and master's degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland under the tutelage of Helen Lawson. In July 2017 she won 1st prize at the 19th Estoril Interpretation Competition and the Public Prize ex-aequo. Since then she has performed solo in several festivals, Cistermúsica, Festoril, Póvoa do Varzim International Classical Music Festival and the Festival ao Largo, she has participated in concerts, as a soloist, with the Chamber Orchestra of Cascais and Oeiras and the Philharmonia Orchestra of Beiras.

Gregor Forbes (b. 1993 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a pianist and composer based in Leipzig, Germany. Gregor plays piano in the avant-garde jazz group Altered Forms Trio, and is pianist and composer for Routine Investigation Ensemble. Since 2014, Gregor has been the Artistic Director of Glasgow Experimental Music Series. Since 2021, he has been the Musical Director of the interview-concert series Neues bei Grieg at the Edvard Grieg Begegnungsstätte, Leipzig, working with composer Bernd Franke. In 2019, Gregor was the inaugural recipient of the scholarship and residency of the Hanns Eisler Haus, Leipzig, culminating in the premiere of a large-scale new work, Dissonance of Emancipation, at the Gewandhaus Musica Nova series with Ensemble Avant Garde. Gregor is mentored in composition by Antoine Beu.