Wind Ensemble
Vincenza Etchegary, director

 Madrigal Choir
Susan Quinn, director

Traditional Jazz Combo
Vincenza Etchegary, director

Auditório Municipal Augusto Cabrita
(Barreiro)

(joint-concert with Orquestra de Sopros e Percussão do Conservatório Regional de Artes do Montijo)

Colégio São João de Brito
(Lisboa)

Artave – Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave

(joint-concert with Orquestra Sinfónica Artavinhos)

PROGRAMME

Steven Reineke: Sedona
Bill Thomas: Blue Lake and Rocky Shore
Lin-Manuela Miranda, Paul Murtha (arr.): Encanto
Jim Duff: Petty Harbour Bait Skiff
Paul Murtha (arr.): Take On Me
Anderson-Lopez, Paul Murtha (arr.): Let It Go
St. Bonaventure’s Wind Ensemble

Paul Severson (arr.): Just a Closer Walk With Thee
Paul Severson (arr.): Black Bottom
Paul Severson (arr.): I Can’t Give You Anything But Love
St. Bonaventure’s Traditional Jazz Combo

Daniel Afonso (arr.): Cinco Cantigas de Roda
Mark Burrows: Circa Mea
Andy Beck: I Will Carry the Light
Leon Dubinsky, Smith & MacMillan (arr.): We Rise Again
David Bruner: Viva la Musica
Norman Luboff: All My Trials
Pamela Morgan, Robert Pitmann (arr.): Selections from White Fleet – “Seven Years and Barco Negro”
Mark Murphy: Be merciful unto me O God
Irish Blessing: May the Road Rise Up To Meet You
St. Bonaventure’s College Madrigal Choir

Located in beautiful St. John’s, Newfoundland, St. Bonaventure’s College is a Kindergarten to Grade 12 School with an enrolment of 270 students. The school’s Instrumental Music Program, which begins in Grade 4, is an integral part of the school curriculum.

The St. Bonaventure’s College Wind Ensemble is the premier concert band at the school and is one of seven instrumental ensembles in the Band Program. The group consists of 45 students from Grade 5 to Grade 12. Over the past twenty-four years, the Wind Ensemble has garnered an impressive assortment of awards at local, national and international levels: it won the CBC Radio Provincial Band Competition (2204) and received the highest score at the All-American Music Festival in Orlando, Florida (2007); it was also awarded the Most Outstanding Band Award at the Heritage Music Festival in Anaheim, California. The Wind Ensemble has been the recipient of the Instrumental Group Rose Bowl at the Kiwanis Music Festival eleven times. The Ensemble has performed for both Pope Francis and Pope Benedict at the St. Peter’s Square Papal Audiences. Their video of the CBC Olympic Theme was awarded first place by the CBC Music Class Challenge and was aired several times during coverage for the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics. International performance tours have included Italy, Spain, Greece, and a Danube River Cruise.

Vincenza Etchegary has taught instrumental music in St. John’s, Newfoundland for the past 35 years. She completed a Music Education Degree at the University of Western Ontario and did graduate studies at Brandon University. She directs 150 students in 7 instrumental ensembles at the St. Bonaventure’s College. Vincenza has been the recipient of both a Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence, as well as a Provincial Government of Newfoundland Teacher Excellence Award. She was inducted into the Kiwanis Music Festival’s Hall of Honour (2015) and received the Canadian Music Educator’s Builders Award (2008). Ensembles under her direction have received many prestigious awards, including the Canadian Jazz Report Award and first place awards in the CBC Provincial Radio School Band Competition, the Long and McQuade National YouTube Performance Competition and the CBC Canadian Music Class Challenge.

 The St. Bonaventure’s College Wind Ensemble is the premier concert band at the school and is one of seven instrumental ensembles in the Band Program. The group consists of 45 students from Grade 5 to Grade 12. Over the past twenty-four years, the Wind Ensemble has garnered an impressive assortment of awards at local, national and international levels: it won the CBC Radio Provincial Band Competition (2204) and received the highest score at the All-American Music Festival in Orlando, Florida (2007); it was also awarded the Most Outstanding Band Award at the Heritage Music Festival in Anaheim, California. The Wind Ensemble has been the recipient of the Instrumental Group Rose Bowl at the Kiwanis Music Festival eleven times. The Ensemble has performed for both Pope Francis and Pope Benedict at the St. Peter’s Square Papal Audiences. Their video of the CBC Olympic Theme was awarded first place by the CBC Music Class Challenge and was aired several times during coverage for the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics. International performance tours have included Italy, Spain, Greece, and a Danube River Cruise.

Susan Quinn is the Artistic Director of the Quintessential Vocal Ensemble (QVE) and Choral Director at St. Bonaventure’s College. Susan received her early musical education from the Sisters of Mercy, and has degrees in Music and Music Education from Memorial University of Newfoundland, with a major in violin, and a Master’s degree in choral conducting from the University of Maine. She is a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence and the Arts in Education Award from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council. Her choirs have received numerous national awards and honours at international competitions in Austria, Wales, Ireland, and France, and recorded six CDs.

Pedro Rodrigues de Almeida, director

Auditório Municipal Augusto Cabrita
(Barreiro)

PROGRAMME

Serge Lancen: Ouverture pour un Matin d’Autonme

José Alberto Pina: Dunkirk

Erik Satie, Johan de Meij (arr.): Ratattouille Satirique
I.Prelude
II.Reverie
III. March

Charles Gounod, Pearce (arr.): Festive Dance from Fausto

The Orquestra de Sopros e Percussão do Conservatório Regional de Artes do Montijo challenges itself in repertoires that intend to demonstrate to the public the excellent quality of its young performers. The sonorities brought to each concert extend through the most varied periods and different genres, making each concert a true celebration of music. This formation is based on the Ensemble Class subject attended by students of all classes of wind instruments and percussion. Currently composed of about 45 students, this Orchestra also contributes to the strengthening of ties of collaboration between the Conservatory and the socio-cultural environment where it belongs, helping to consolidate partnerships and other forms of collaboration with local entities in the region. Of particular note is the participation in editions of the “Festival ao Largo”, organised by the National Theatre of São Carlos, the preparation of the cantata “Carmina Burana”, with the choir Lisboa Cantat, presented at the Olga Cadaval Cultural Centre in Sintra, and the participation in the Lisbon Music Fest, in a joint-concert with the Banda Sinfónica Avanzada de la Escuela Libre de Música Antonio Paoli de Caguas (Puerto Rico), in July 2023.

Pedro Rodrigues de Almeida is currently the teacher responsible for the Orquestra de Sopros e Percussão do Conservatório Regional de Artes do Montijo. He has attended several courses in Orchestra Conducting and, in 2014, was one of the students selected to participate in the “Conducting Weekend” – Orchestra Conducting Masterclass, offered by the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, England). He integrated the Conducting Class of Maestro Jean-Sébastien Béreau and, in 2019, he was awarded with the City Council Medal of Merit in the area of Culture, “Palmela is Music” – Silver Grade, for the outstanding services rendered to the municipality of Palmela.

André Xavier, director

Artave – Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave

PROGRAMME

Rimsky-Korsakov, Richard Meyer (arr.): Capricho Espanhol

William Hofeldt: Abertura Centenária

Robert Bauerschmidt (arr.): Beseda – Suite de Danças Checas

Fr. Kmoch: Marcha “Campos Verdes”

Founded in 1989, ARTAVE – Escola Profissional Artística do Vale do Ave is a pioneering institution in Professional Artistic Education. Despite its youth, ARTAVE has proven to be a model of success in music education in Portugal, with numerous students performing at the highest level and a high representation of former students developing successful professional careers. The new classes to be opened in the next academic year will continue and deepen the objectives that ARTAVE set itself when it was founded: to provide a solid human and general education (socio-cultural education) and in-depth specific education (artistic and technical education). From the moment they enter the school, new students are integrated into an environment that favours learning and group activities, while at the same time providing individual support for their work in order to develop their skills and talents.