Carlos Canhoto Duo
In this concert, Carlos Canhoto will play some of the works included in his most recent CD, “Shout”, with pianist Natalia Riabova. The repertory is a paradigm of the expressive representation of the dialectic of life and death and, at the same time, both deep expression and strict form.
Carlos Canhoto
Carlos Canhoto is one of the the most qualified portuguese saxophone players. He was the first portuguese saxophonist to obtain a PhD in Music (Performance), which he did at Aveiro University.
He graduated in Saxophone and Chamber Music at Cergy-Pontoise Conservatory, France, where he obtained a Médaille d’ Or with professor Jean-Yves Fourmeau. He also graduated in Musicology at Universidade Nova in Lisbon.
He has been very active in the promotion of new contemporary music and has premiered music by composers like Christopher Bochmann, Pedro Amaral, Antonin Servière, Amílcar Vasques Dias, António Chagas Rosa, José Carlos Sousa, Paulo Vaz de Carvalho, Helder Gonçalves, Eduardo Patriarca, Sérgio Azevedo, Anne Victorino d’Almeida and Fernando C. Lapa, among others. He has thus contributed to a growth in contemporary repertoire for saxophone, especially from portuguese composers and with an emphasis in chamber music.
He also contributed to introduce, in Portugal, important pieces of the repertoire that hadn’t been played there before, like Anton Webern’s Quartett op. 22.
He’s a founder and a distinguished member of Síntese – Contemporary Music Group, which has become one of the leading contemporary music ensembles in Portugal.
He’s also a regular member of other chamber music groups.
Carlos Canhoto is currently Professor at Castelo Branco’s Higher Education School of Arts (ESART). He also teaches at the conservatories of Guarda, Covilhã and Castelo Branco. He’s a researcher at INET/MD music research institute in Lisbon.
Carlos Canhoto is a Vandoren and Selmer artist.
Natalia Riabova
Natalia Riabova studied at M. I. Glinka State Conservatory at Nijni Novgorod, Russia. She has been a highly demanded pianist for accompaniment in masterclasses with musicians like Ivry Gitlis, Michael Collins, Carl Leister, Alex Klein, David Fruwirth, P. Markelo, Daniel Rowland, among others.
She is also regularly invited to accompany important competitions, she regularly plays in chamber music ensembles and as a soloist. She is currently Professor at Castelo Branco’s Higher Education School of Arts (ESART) and an accompanist at Covilhã Professional School of Arts (EPABI). She plays regularly as a pianist member of the Gulbenkian Orchestra.